SAMUEL B. KEGARICE
Samuel B. Kegarice was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, September 12, 1825. His parents, Jacob and Barbara Kegarice, died in that county. Samuel was reared on a farm, and at the age of seventeen years, went to serve an apprenticeship at the blacksmith trade. He was married August 14, 1848, to Hester Ann Thomas. Mr. Kegarice followed his trade in Bedford county until the fall of 1858. He then moved to Springfield, Missouri, where he was living when the war broke out. Being a strong Union man he was compelled to leave the State, his life being in danger. He left behind him about three thousand dollars' worth of property, of which he has never recovered a dollar. He went to Bureau county, Illinois and worked at his trade until 1870. He came, in that year to Cass county, and settled in Bear Grove township where he now lives. He owns a farm of forty acres. After coming here, he followed his trade until 1881. He now rents his shop. Mr. and Mrs. Kegarice have two children - Josiah, born April 14, 1849, now married to Birdie Copeland, and Mary Ann, born September 14, 1850, living at home with her parents.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex 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, pg. 731.
