Stierwalt, Henry A.

STIERWALT

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Date: 7/9/2021 at 21:47:40

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.699

STIERWALT, HENRY A., farmer, Union Township, Sec. 32; P. O. Sandyville; born in Warren county, Indiana, Sept. 28, 1841; his parents moved to Polk county, this State. in 1856, where they remained two years, and then moved to this county. The subject of this sketch followed farming pursuits until Aug. 9th, 1862, when he enlisted in Co. D, 34th Iowa Inf., and served until Aug. 11, 1865, when he was discharged at Houston, Texas. He was in the battles of Arkansas Post, Siege of Vicksburg, Forts Morgan, Gaines, and Blakely, and numerous other skirmishes in which the company was engaged. After he returned home he resumed his farming; he purchased his present farm of 80 acres in 1879. He married Dec. 19, 1866, Miss Sophia J. Pennington, of this county, who died Aug. 12, 1867; he married again, Jan. 28, 1869, Miss Elizabeth Baker, a native of Ohio; they have two daughters: Florence A. and Hattie Alice, both living.