Sandy, William G.

SANDY

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Date: 7/9/2021 at 20:43:41

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.698

SANDY, WILLIAM G., farmer, Union Township, Sec. 15; P. O. Sandyville; the subject of this sketch was born in Washington county, Indiana, Feb. 17, 1818, but was raised in Owen county, of that State; he came to this county in the year 1850, when it was a wild plain, yet unsettled, and was one among the first to make a claim within the limit of what now constitutes Warren county; his present homestead is the one he first made; it now embraces 320 acres; he found a partner in the person of Miss Catharine Johns, of Indiana, whom he married in October, 1844, who died Sept. 25, 1853, leaving a family of three children: Jeremiah, Henry and Joseph; he was married to his present wife, whose maiden name was Elvira, daughter of Philip Lambert, Feb. 14, 1855; by this union they have six children: Julina, Mary E., Laura A., Amanda J., Thomas T. and Homer; Mr. Sandy is a man widely known and well respected, of genial disposition, courteous and obliging.