Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 887
JOHN T. BOONE

John T. BOONE, a farmer living on section 34, of Allen Township, accompanied by his parents to Harrison County in the autumn of 1856. They first settled on the Willow, in Boyer Township. His father bought one hundred and twenty acres of wild land, paying the sum of $1.25 per acre. One year after they came his father died and his mother sold the place, and took the family and went back to Indiana, and remained there two years and then returned to Iowa, and settled on the Willow, where they rented land, for almost twn years. When our subject was old to work out and support the family, he did so. A part of the time he worked by the month, and at other times rented land. When twenty years of age, he bougt one hundred and twenty acres of land, paying $6.25 per acres, having to go in debt for a greater portion of it. He built a house 14x16 feet, with an addition 12x14 feet; dug a well, built stables, etc., and here remained about two years, when he sold his farm for $1,200, receiving eighty acres of land near Woodbine as part payment. He sold this place without making any improvements, after which he rented one year, and then bought eighty acres of partly improved land, in Magnolia Township, where he build a small house in addition to the one already on the place. He remained there twelve years, and then sold the place, and bought the place he now lives on, which was partly improved at the time.

He was born in Indiana in 1850, the son of Robert E. and Elizabeth BOONE, natives of Kentucky and Indiana respectively, and they were the parents of eight children, of whom our subject was the seventh�Ann M., deceased; Jane, deceased; Amanda A., Emaline, deceased; Samuel, Nancy, John T., and Laura L.

Our subject was married October 5, 1875, to Luella O'BANION, daughter of James H. and Flora I. O'BANION, who were natives of Missouri, and who reared a family of four children, three of whom are still living�Isabel, James A. and Luella.

Mr. And Mrs. BOONE are the parents of three children born as follows�Myrtle H., deceased, born October 12, 1877; Delpha E., December 16, 1882, and Margaret E., March 20, 1891.

Mr. And Mrs. BOONE and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church located on the Willow River.

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