CORNELIUS W. DEEDS
Cornelius W. Deeds settled where he now resides, on the southeast quarter of section 2, of Benton township, in July, 1864. He purchased his land of the government, and has, of course, made all of his improvements. His first house was a log cabin, in which he lived until he built his present residence in 1882. He has an apple orchard, containing about four hundred bearing trees. His farm contains eighty acres. He was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1835. In 1841 his father removed to Lee county, Iowa. Cornelius was reared a farmer and has always been engaged in that occupation. He was married to Artemisia Mapes, a native of Ohio, and a daughter of Solomon Mapes, who died in Audubon county, Iowa, in 1882, at the age of eighty-two years. Mr. Deeds' father, John Deeds, enlisted in the Thirty-seventy Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and died while in the service, at Alton Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Deeds have five children...Lila, Etna E., Capitola G., Elihu and Ada U. The eldest two were born in Lee county, the others here.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 647.
