Daniel L. BOSWORTH, farmer; Sec. 28; P. O. Riverside; was born in Oneida county, New York, January 12, 1813; the same year his parents moved to Ohio; his father died there in 1819, and he went to Ashtabula county in 1828, remaining there until 1840; he then came to Iowa, locating in Lee county, and after a stay there until 1852, he came to this county [Washington County, Iowa] and located where he now lives; he has resided on the same place since and owns 220 acres of land; he was married December 4, 1835 to Miss Lydia J. CASE, a native of Ohio; they have three children: Charles C. [now in Ringgold county. Iowa, and was elected representative to the legislature in 1879], Joab O. [living in Denver, Colorado], Amy B. now Mrs. William T. CORNWALL, of Union county, Iowa]; have lost three: A. M., Benjamin B., Ada S.; A. M., served through the war in the Thirtieth Iowa infantry, and Charles C. first in the Seventh Ohio, afterward commissioned as hospital steward in the regular army; A. Y. BOSWORTH was elected sheriff of this county in 1873; has also been town assessor.

NOTE: Daniel Ladd "Dan" BOSWORTH died in April of 1902, with interment at Tingley Cemetery, Ringgold County. Lydia J. (CASE) BOSWORTH was born April 4, 1811, and died on June 27, 1897, with interment at Tingley Cemetery.

SOURCE: "Clay Township" History of Washington County, Iowa Pp. 615-16. State Historical Society of Iowa. Des Moines. 1880.

Transcription and note by Sharon R. Becker, June of 2009