Villroy Abbey

ABBEY

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 1/13/2006 at 22:14:56

Villroy Abbey is located on section 31, Kensett township. He has a splendid farm of 200 acres. He is engaged in agriculture and stock. He was born Dec. 4, 1845, in New York. At the age of eighteen he came to Northwood, Worth county. He lived there five years, then removed to his present home. His avocation is farming. He married Emily Boutwell in September, 1867. She was born Aug. 4, 1850. They have had four children—Nettie, deceased, Oscar, Delia and Annie. Mr. Abbey is a republican. He enlisted in company M, 4th Iowa Cavalry, in 1864, serving eighteen months. He went to Memphis, from there to Louisville, then to Montgomery, to Selma, thence to Atlanta, Ga. He was discharged at Davenport, Iowa, in 1865, having been in most of the principal engagements.

Source: History or Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, Page 780.