Isaac Orner

ORNER ASHMORE

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/13/2010 at 17:40:02

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Isaac Orner
By Robert Thom

Isaac Orner married Elizabeth Pamelia Ashmore, and they had seven children: Allen, Mabel, Jessie, Henry, Malinda Jane (mother of John Freeman, Correctionville histories), Ella Mae (later Mrs. George J Thom), and Joseph. In 1865 Mrs. Orner died and he married Maria C Donelson Lilliard in 1868. She raised his seven children, and two of her own by a previous marriage.

The Orners arrived at Fort Correctionville, September 25, 1870. They had been traveling by covered wagon, and finally came to Iowa, crossed the State, and about sunset came over the eastern hills, crossed the valley to Fort Correctionville. Smoke from evening cooking wafted skyward in the glow of the evening sun. They followed the trails in the tall prairie grass that covered the valley as far as eye could reach, and finally arrived at the gates of the Fort. Union soldiers assisted the girls to dismount from the wagon, and all went inside to partake of the frontier cooking.

Isaac later set up in the Blacksmith Trade. In the spring of 1871 the Orners moved to the farm on Poverty Ridge (Ridge Road). This farm was later farmed by Allen, the oldest son. The children of Isaac attended School No. 1 a half-mile south. The arm is now the Earl Fullerton farm. In 1877 the Orners moved to Correctionville, and Isaac is interred in the Correctionville Municipal Cemetery.