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Hi!
My name is Annette DeCourcy Towler, the coordinator for
Greene County with maternal great grandparents roots in Paton and Paton
Township. If you have any Greene County information that you would
like to see on this site, including information to offer,
transcriptions, or records to be transcribed, please feel free to
contact
WebMaster.
A Little Bit of History
The region in which Greene
County is situated is a part of the great "Louisiana Purchase", secured
from France in 1803, during President Jefferson's administration. After
the Black Hawk war, a strip of land extending fifty miles west from the
Mississippi River was opened to settlement after May 1, 1833
In 1849, Truman Davis, the first white settler of the
county, located near where the village of Rippey now
stands. The same year, Enos Buttrick settled at the mouth
of what is now known as Buttrick's Creek, while Richard
Hardin located near the mouth of the stream which has
since borne his name. Messrs. Wood, Valentine and William
R. Babb came in 1850 and located along the Raccoon River,
while Josiah Bluncett, Thomas Greenup and John Barr
settled farther up the river in 1850-51. Greene County
was established in 1851 and named in honor of General
Nathaniel Greene, of the Revolutionary Army. It was
attached to Dallas County January 22, 1853. Prior to
that, it had been attached to Polk County for temporary
purposes. In 1854, there was a population of about 150,
and the county was deemed populous enough to entitle it
to regular organization. On August 12, 1854, William
Phillips was commissioned county judge, William Brock,
clerk of the district court, and Isaac D.Crumley, sheriff. The first
official record of any description is dated August 25, 1854. . . .
(From The Biographical
and Historical Record of Greene and Carroll Counties,
Iowa, 1887.)
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