Edwin Cole

COLE

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 1/15/2006 at 15:12:38

Edwin Cole was born in New York State, Aug. 9, 1840. When nineteen years of age he moved to Michigan, lived there one year, then moved to Wisconsin, living there until 1877. In the fall of that year he settled in Plymouth, Cerro Gordo Co., Iowa. In 1881 he came to Worth county, settling on section 24, Kensett township, where he still resides. He is engaged in stock raising. In July, 1861, he was married to Hannah Moore, born in Ohio, Feb. 15, 1845. There are three children living—Milton D., Ella and Walter. Abraham Moore, the father of Mrs. Cole, was born in 1803, and is still living at the advanced age of eighty years. Her mother was born in Pennsylvania, in 1814, and died in 1879. They had ten children, Mrs. Cole being the ninth. William Cole, father of Edwin, was born in New York State, in 1799, and died in 1865. His mother was born in 1809, and died in 1842. They had eight children, Edwin being the seventh. Mr. Cole enlisted in company D, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, Sept. 21, 1864. After serving ten months and twenty-one days, he was mustered out at Milwaukee, Wis. He was shot at Fort Brazier, La., near the Gulf of Mexico. He is a republican.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 786.