Grundy County, IA

IAGenWeb Project

This page will be devoted to the personal web pages and creations for Grundy County,
and those who wish to share their information with us.

If you have created your web page and it is connected to Grundy County,
just email me and I will get it posted here.

Rademaker Family

My grandfather, Lüür Siebel Rademaker b. Dec, 7, 1864 in Heppens, Oldenberg, Germany and immigrated to Grundy Co. IA. in 1885 and took his citizen ship oath on March 3, 1891 in Grundy Co. IA. My grandmother also immigrated to Grundy Co. IA. from Germany.

Bakker Family

My grandfather and great-grandparents emigrated from Holland in 1903 and settled in Iowa in the Grundy and Butler County area. Barbara Cox

Boekhoff Family

My family is from Grundy County, and we have a web page at www.boekhoff.org. Our origins have been traced back to Ostfriesland to a town called Bunde. By the way, my mother was one of 21 children (all the same father, but two
mothers - one had six, the other had 15). I don't have a tidbit from the newspaper, but the 21st child was born in 1937. :) Penny (Boekhoff) Hendrix, Belton, Texas

Janssen Family Lineage

Included in this information is a lineage line and photos.

Robert Appledorn
(we spell it "le" instead of "el" now)

Many of the families were in the Grundy, Butler, Franklin,Osceola, and Lyon county areas. These were the traditional "Ostfriesian" colony areas. The mother colony was in the Ogle, Stephenson, and Winnebago co, Illinois area at German Valley. My APPELDORN ancestors were there. One APPELDORN in the Aplington area was Talkea "Carrie" APPELDORN m Jan "John" ALBERTS. Other surnames for Grundy area are KNOCK, HAAN, STUBBE, SCHULTE, DUIN, WAALKES, HARMS, MILLER/MULLER ("U" with umlaut), DAMMANN and BOOMGAARDEN.

If you want to grab a photo of Carrie, then work your way through ./photo to the file "carappld".
That family was listed in an Aplington history. Send email questions to: appldorn@foyt.indyrad.iupui.edu

27th Regiment of the Iowa Volunteer Infantry

This was originally sent through the IA-NEB mailing list, and after contacting Elaine, she has allowed me to share this with Grundy County. From: Elaine Johnson ejohnson@softdisk.com

My great grandfather was in the 27th Regiment of the Iowa Volunteer Infantry. I have done quite a bit of research on it, including the complete roster and regimental history. I finally have enough information gathered to set up a web site. It is not completely finished yet, but all the names are there. If you find a name you are interested in and the complete information is not there, I will look it up for you.

A lot of the soldiers were from Clayton and Allamakee Counties. However, I have not tried to determine all the counties involved yet. So if you have an ancester that might have fought during the Civil War for the State of Iowa, please check it out. I would be delighted to hear from anyone that has connections to the 27th Iowa Volunteer Infantry.
Elaine Johnson, Bossier City, LA

Byron B. Cole, Grundy Co. Iowa
Submitted by: Tracy Turek Fezz1@aol.com

Byron B. Cole, Grundy County, Iowa, is an Eden of fine farms and agricultural tracts. There are comparatively few small tracts, and each farmer tries to out-do his neighbor in the cultivation and improvement of his land. Of the many fine, attractive places, none are more conspicuous than that belonging to our subject and located in Washington Township. Mr. Cole is the owner of two hundred and forty acres in Washington Township, practical all under a high state of cultivation, and he also owns one hundred and sixty acres in Dickinson County, Iowa, and the same number of acres in Dakota, where he resided one year. His buildings, fences, etc., are in first-class condition and indicate to the beholder that a thorough and experienced hand is at the helm.

Byron B. Cole came originally from Carroll County, Ill.. where his birth occurred April 19, 1852, and he was one of several children born to Lyman and Emily Cole (see Sketch elsewhere in this volume). Our subject was but four vears of age when he came with his parents to Grundy County, Iowa, and as a consequence all his recollections are of this county. Like the ordinary farmer boy, he attended the district schools in his youth and assisted his father in improving the farm. When older he attended school in Waterloo and thus received a good, practical education. When twenty-two years of age he decided to travel a little and see something of the United States, and for several years wandered over different states of the Union, working by the day and month.

In 1874 he returned to Grundy County and went to work for his father. The same fall he embarked in the butcher busiuess at Grundy Centre in partnership with William Wilson, but at the end of sixteen months he sold his interest in the business and began tilling the soil on his father's farm. In the fall of 1877 he was married to Miss Mary F. Howe, a native of Canada and the daughter of Esquire and Lucinda (Humphrey) Howe, natives respectively of Vermont and Canada. Mrs. Cole went with her parents to Wisconsin when young, and in that state her parents passed the remainder of their days, dying after she had grown to womanhood.

The marriage of our subject and wife has been blessed by the birth of five children Alvernus H., Ralph L. and Ray L. (twins), J. Pearl and Ruby H. Politically Mr. Cole is a member of the Peoples Party and a strong suppporter of third party principles. He has often been called upon to hold different local offices in his township, such as Road Supervisor, School Director, etc., and has filled one and all in a very creditable manner. At the time of his marriage his father gave him one hundred and sixty acres of land, and on this farm which he has increased to goodly proportions, he has remained ever since, making stock-raising a specialty.

OTHER LINKS

Loren Toomsen  Searching the Toomsen surnames.

Descendants of Peter Miller and Margaret Cameron – www.bgephart.net/miller.html

Descendants of Samuel D. Megaw and Nancy Margaret Millar – www.bgephart.net/megaw.html  

Descendants of Roger and Marilyn Coeling Peters  ---
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