Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 332
TIMOTHY C. CASE

Timothy C. CASE, located on section 26, of Calhoun township, came to Harrison County in the fall of 1855, and stopped in St. John's Township. He came to Harrison County a poor man, and was compelled to rent land for twelve years. He then bought the farm he now occupies, which consisted, at the time, of eighty acres of wild land, upon which he built a house, barn, and cribbing; also dug wells and set out an orchard of one hundred and twenty trees. He now owns one hundred and forty acres of land, sixty acres of which are under the plow. He lived in this country, during the never-to-be-forgotten hard winter of 1856-57, when he lost both cattle and hogs, through the severity of the weather. The grass hoppers were also a "burden unto him," as they destroyed his entire crop for two years.

Concerning our subject's career outside of Harrison County, let it be said, that he was born in Hendricks County, Ind., in November, 1831. He is the son of John and Sarah CASE, natives of Virginia and South Carolina respectively, he being the sixth of a family of twelve children, seven of whom are living, four residing in Harrison County. The names of his father's family are as follows: Acenith, deceased; Squire L., deceased; John G., Martha, deceased; Hannah, Sarah, Timothy C., Jacob, Tabitha deceased; Nancy, deceased; Sylva and William T.

Our subject lived in the Hoosier State until sixteen years of his life had passed, when he went to the Lone Star State�Texas. In 1849, he enlisted in the regular army, under command of N. P. BANKS. He enlisted in Louisville, Ky., was assigned to Company G, First Infantry, and served in the regular army five years. He was stationed on the frontier in Texas, to protect the settlers from the depredations of the Indians, with whom they had several skirmishes. He received his discharge at Eagle Pass, Tex., after which he went to work for the Government, as teamster of a freight wagon, going up to the New Mexico line, the trip taking three months' time. We next find him in Indiana, where he remained one year, after which he came to Harrison County, Iowa.

He was married in October, 1856, to Eliza A. DEAL, daughter of John and Sarah DEAL, who were natives of Kentucky, and had a family of eleven children, of whom our subject's wife was the eighth. The family were -- William, deceased; Polly A., James, Peter, deceased; Barbara, Rachel, Sarah, Eliza A., Joseph A., John B., and Eli, deceased.

Our subject's wife's parents moved to Harrison County, in 1852.

Mr. and Mrs. CASE are the parents of seven children, born and named in the following order -- John F., August 16, 1857; William H., March 24, 1860; James T., April 25, 1862; Sarah, March 27, 1864; Timothy J., April 22, 1868; Joseph E., March 17, 1870; and Andrew R., March 23, 1877.

Mr. and Mrs. CASE are members of the Baptist Church, and in his political relations, he favors the Democratic party.

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