Edmund Thomas Sands

SANDS, MCFADDEN

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Date: 1/1/2015 at 19:28:10

History of Washington County, Iowa 1880
Biographical - Highland Township

SANDS, E. T., farmer; Sec. 32; P.O. Ainsworth; was born in Pennsylvania in 1823, and is the son of Robert and Mary Sands, and when he was three years of age was taken by his parents to Harrison county, Ohio, where he was raised a farmer; he came to this county in April 1856, and settled on his present farm containing 290 acres, and is one of the oldest settlers in the township; he was married in 1844 to Miss Mary A. McFadden, a native of Ohio, born in 1823; they have a family of three children living: Robert, Alrid and Benjamin; lost one daughter: Margaret.