Iowa Family Group Sheet for the Joseph W. DENNY Family

Submitted by: Greta Thompson 

HUSBAND: Joseph W. DENNY
Birth date: 4 Feb 1816
Birthplace: Onondaga Co, NY
Death date: 8 Dec 1907
Place of death: Cherokee, Cherokee Co, IA
Burial date: Messenger Cemetery
Burial place: Denver, Jefferson Twp, Bremer Co, IA
Other Spouse: Mary Jane DAMON HOLDEN
Father: Hugh DENNEY
Mother: Hannah BUCHARD

Marriage date: 17 Sep 1835
Marriage place: Probably NY

WIFE: Eunice Melvina AUSTIN
Birth date: 17 Jan 1819
Birthplace: NY
Death date: 25 Jul 1877
Place of death: Bremer Co, IA
Burial date: Messenger Cemetery
Burial place: Denver, Jefferson Two, Bremer Co, IA
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CHILDREN

Child No. 1: William H. DENNY
Sex: M
Birth date: 5 Oct 1836
Birthplace: Ontario Res, Wayne, NY
Death date: 8 Nov 1922
Place of death: Creston, Lincoln Co, WA
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Spouse's name: Mary Jane KERN
Marriage date: 3 Nov 1857
Marriage place: Bremer Co, NY

Child No. 2: Hannah Amelia DENNY
Sex: F
Birth date: 14 Mar 1839
Birthplace: NY
Death date: 13 Sep 1922
Place of death: Medical Lake, Spokane, WA
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Spouse's name: (1) Henry Maurice Collins MESSINGER (2) G. W. MILLER
Marriage date: (1) 3 Jul 1855 (2) Unknown
Marriage place: Bremer Co, IA

Child No. 3: Joseph DENNY
Sex: M
Birth date: 1841
Birthplace: NY
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Child No. 4: Harriet DENNY
Sex: F
Birth date: 27 Mar 1842
Birthplace: Indiana
Death date: 19 Apr 1888
Place of death: Black Hawk Co, IA
Burial date: Pioneer Cemetery
Burial place: Bennington, Black Hawk, IA
Spouse's name: George REINHART
Marriage date: 5 Oct 1861
Marriage place: Black Hawk Co, IA

Child No. 5: John Wesley DENNY
Sex: M
Birth date: 14 Jun 1845
Birthplace: IN
Death date: 8 Aug 1926
Place of death: Reubens, Lewis, ID
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Spouse's name: Agnes Clara JORDAN
Marriage date: 9 Jul 1869
Marriage place: Iowa

Child No. 6: Martha Ursula DENNY
Sex: F
Birth date: 1847
Birthplace: Ft. Wayne, Allen Co, IN
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Spouse's name: (2) Albert BARTLETT
Marriage date: 3 Dec 1892
Marriage place: Black Hawk Co, IA

Child No. 7: Rosella DENNY
Sex: F
Birth date: Abt 1849
Birthplace: DeKalb Co.,  IL
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Spouse's name: Charles TRAVIS
Marriage date: 3 Nov 1866
Marriage place: Black Hawk Co, IA

Child No. 8: Charles N. DENNY
Sex: M
Birth date: Jan 1852
Birthplace: DeKalb Co., IL
Death date: 7 Apr 1853
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Child No. 9: Emma Jane DENNY
Sex: F
Birth date: abt 1854
Birthplace: Squaw Grove, DeKalb Co, IL
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Spouse's name: Charles KIEDERLING
Marriage date: 22 Sep 1869
Marriage place: Black Hawk Co, IA

Child No. 10: Almira Ellen DENNY
Sex: F
Birth date: 4 Dec 1856
Birthplace: IA
Death date: 8 Jun 1926
Place of death: Spokane, WA
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Spouse's name: Warren William TIMMONS
Marriage date: 25 Dec 1874
Marriage place: IA

Child No. 11: Dora Alice DENNY
Sex: F
Birth date: May 1859
Birthplace: Bremer Co, IA
Death date: 1925
Place of death: prob Black Hawk Co, IA
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Spouse's name: Adam Marion KERN
Marriage date: 25 Feb 1877
Marriage place: Bremer Co, IA

Child No. 12: George A. DENNY
Sex: M
Birth date: Apr 1861
Birthplace: Bremer Co, IA
Death date: 18 Jun1863
Place of death: Bremer Co, IA
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Child No. 13: Eva S. DENNY
Sex: F
Birth date: 5 Mar 1860
Birthplace: Denver, Bremer Co, IA
Death date: 25 Oct 1917
Place of death: Bremer Co, IA
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Spouse's name: (1) Charles F. RUSSELL (2) Joshua PARSONS
Marriage date: (1) 30 Oct 1882 (2) 4 Aug 1894
Marriage place: (1)  Bremer Co, IA (2) Black Hawk Co, IA


Documentation and Sources:

Family Records, Censuses, online data 

Some of this family spelled their last name with an e (Denney). 

I have not been able to identify Martha Ursula Denny's first husband, whom she married 
when she was 17 (abt 1847) and by whom she had 8 children, 3 of whom were living in 1910.

Joseph Denny's second wife, Mary Jane Damon Holden, was my great-grandmother. They spent 
the last years of their married life in Cherokee, IA where Mary Jane's son Caryl Holden and 
his family lived. They are buried with their first spouses, Joseph in Bremer County, Mary Jane in Kossuth County.

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