Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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MRS. MINNIE CHILES

Mrs. Minnie CHILES, wife of William CHILES, decased, and a resident of sections 11 and 12, in Union Township, where she owns one hundred and twenty acres, came to Harrison County in the month of November, 1867, in company with her parents, who settled near Reeder's Mills, in Jefferson Township, where her father worked in a sawmill.

In December, 1869, she was united in marriage to William CHILES, who was a son of Isaac and Eliza CHILES, who were the parents of four sons�Andrew, William, George and Joseph. The parents were natives of Ohio. After the marriage of our subject, her husband worked his father's farm one year, when he bought eighty acres of wild land, of which he broke about fifty acres the first year, also built a house 14x18 feet, one story in height; built outbuildings, etc. This comprises a part of Mrs. CHILES' present farm, which now consists of one hundred and twenty acres, all under a high state of cultivation.

Mrs. CHILES was born in Illinois in 1854 and her parents were both natives of Indiana. They were Harvey and Sarah A. PECKENPAUGH. The father came to Illinois in 1831 and to Iowa in 1867. They reared a family of eleven children, as follows: Rose A., Minnie, Clarissa, Bell, Hettie, Ellen, Lillie, Stella, William A., Elza and Bird.

Our subject and her husband were the parents of four children�Emmet M., born January 12, 1871; Charles N., February 15, 1873; Lulie B., October 5, 1874; Andrew J., October 8, 1876; and Isaac, August 13, 1879.

Mr. CHILES was born in Indiana in 1846, and lived in Harrison County thirty years of his life, and died January 31, 1888.

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