LOUISA COUNTY, IOWA

MEMORIES
OF
COLUMBUS CITY, IOWA

By

Eleanora Garner Colton
Compiled In Her 95th Year

THE AUTHOR ELEANORA GARNER COLTON Born at Gratis, Preble County, Ohio, March 1, 1845. Came to Columbus City, Iowa, at the age of eight months in a covered wagon with her parents, Col. and Mrs. W. W. Garner.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

	PAGES
MEMORIES OF COLUMBUS CITY	1 - 10
AN INCIDENT OF OAKLAND TOWNSHIP IN 1839	10
AN INDIAN INCIDENT	10
MY FATHER WAS A CLERK IN THE FIRST LEGISLATURE	11-12
A MORNING ON THE FARM IN JUNE, 1862	12-13
HOME LIFE IN PIONEER DAYS	13-16
LOOKING BACKWARD - Mother's-Daughters' Banquet	16-18
COLUMBUS CITY SOLDIERS:
25th IOWA INFANTRY, COMPANY ROLL OF UNION LIGHT INFANTRY	19-21
COLUMBUS CITY RIFLES - COMPANY C, 11TH IOWA REGIMENT	21-22
FIFTH IOWA INFANTRY COMPANY C	22-24
MUSTER ROLL OF POST NO. 11, G. A. R. at Columbus City, District of Louisa. Date of Muster August 25, 1866	25
YOUNG MEN OF COLUMBUS CITY, IOWA, WHO SERVED IN THE WORLD WAR, 1918	25

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