Daniel Sargent

SARGENT YEATS

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/14/2010 at 22:05:30

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Daniel Sargent
By Dorothy Sargent

Daniel Sargent, October 2, 1832 to January 26, 1902, and his wife, Jane Yeats Sargent, July 26, 1836 to January 13, 1910, came to the United States of America form Liskeard, Cornwall, England in 1881, the year of the big blizzard. They brought six of their seven children: one daughter, Hettie, stayed in England. They came up the Mississippi and Missouri rivers from New Orleans on a flat-bottom boat and squatted on land where Sioux City now stands. They were farming people and later bought farm land five miles southeast of Sioux City where they settled.

Their daughter, Ellen, birth date unknown to September 29, 1942, married Tom Jones, 1857 to December 15, 1940. They had no children and moved to the Council Bluffs area.
Son, Fredrick, November 11, 1859 to July 26, 1919, was an electrical engineer. He married Laura S Sleep, 1863 to February 19, 1943, of Cornwall, England, in Sioux City. They had a daughter, Dorothy, and two sons, Chester and Ralph. They settled in Chicago.
Son, Daniel, married Jenny; they had one son, Allen, and settled in Falls City, Nebraska, where he owned a jewelry store. Son, George, married Olive Jane Alt; they had five girls: Fanny, Claria, Grace, Bernice, Fern, and two sons, who died in infancy. They bought a farm and settled at Caldwell, Kansas.
Son, William, 1865-1932, married Amanda Rebecca Craig, 1866-1908. Their son, Watson, was born on the Sargent farm southeast of Sioux City. Will later moved to New York. Watson’s son, Dr Robert John Sargent, a minister, was born in what is now the tenant house of the Don Carter farm at Sgt Bluff; this family later moved to Canada.
Son, Isaac, 1863-1944, was the only child f Daniel and Jane Sargent to remain in Woodbury County permanently. He married Mamie N Kelsey, 1870-1946, on February 22, 1888, in Sgt Bluff. They spent most of their life on a farm east of Sergeant Bluff but retired a few years before their death and made their home in town. They had two sons, Wesley Eugene, 1889-1956, and Edwin Richard, 1900-1977. Wesley married Jessie Ailshie, 1889-1976, in February 1911. She had come to Sgt Bluff form Tennessee to keep house for her brother, Ernest Ailshie. Wesley owned and operated a hardware store in Sgt Bluff around 1913-14, and alter farmed east of Sgt Bluff. They had two children: Hubert, November 24, 1912-August 23, 1983, and Mary Louise, both graduates of Sgt Bluff High School. Hubert married Pearl Roberts; they had one son, Robert. He spent most of his teaching career in Des Moines, where both he and Pearl taught. He retired in 1976 and lived in Des Moines until his death.
Mary attended State Teachers College at Peru, Nebraska. She married LeRoy Smay, August 1937. He was a music instructor at Greenfield, Iowa. They had one son, Stephen. They are now retired and live at Lees Summit, Missouri.
Edwin, 1900-1977, married Alice Baker, born 1901, of Sgt Bluff; they had four boys and one girl. Edwin farmed east of Sgt Bluff and worked at the Sioux City Air Base during World War II. They also owned and operated the Nu Way Café in Sgt Bluff during the war, until rationing forced them to close due to lack of obtaining enough food to supply the demand. Alice and Edwin and the two youngest boys moved to Ft Lauderdale, Florida, in 1948. Richard graduated form SBHS, class of 1942. He went into the Army, 1942-45, then attended machinist school, went back in to the Air Force in 1953. He and his wife, Mary (Bohan), have six children. He is now retired from the Air Force (Tech. Sgt) and now lives in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.