Twice-A-Week News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
June 12, 1896

W. W. PEASLEY was born [December 9, 1853] in Essex county, New York, and in his eleventh year came to northeastern Iowa with his parents. He graduated from the law department of the Iowa state university and was admitted to the practice of law by a certificate of admission to the supreme court June 29, 1875.

In 1877 he moved to Decatur county and in 1884 he located at Kellerton, Ringgold county, opening the Kellerton bank, and has been engaged in banking continually since that time.

Mr. PEASLEY married [M. Allie LEE] in 1879 and his wife and five children constitute the family at his house. The oldest four are girls and the youngest a boy now a lttle past three months old.

NOTE: From Heman Conoman Smith's History of Decatur County, Iowa, and Its People, Vol. 1, page 202, "W. W. PEASLEY, from Eagleville, Mo., practiced in Davis City from 1875 to 1885, and later became a banker at Kellerton, Ringgold County. He is now deceased."

W. W. PEASLEY died December 7, 1908. Dorothy A. PEASLEY died at the age of 1 year and 10 days on July 23, 1900. Wayne W. PEASLEY died at the age of 5 months and 15 days on July 24, 1896. They were interred at Maple Row Cemetery, Kellerton, Iowa.

Submission by Mike Avitt; Courtesy of Mount Ayr Depot Museum, August of 2010

Transcription and note by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2010