NICHOLAS BARTLES.

Nicholas Bartles was also an Illinois soldier, as well as a native of the State, and soon after the War of the Rebellion located on section 22. It was an eighty-acre farm and Mr. Bartles afterward bought another tract of like extent on section 27. In 1870 he married Tabitha Eller, a daughter of Jesse Eller, the pioneer settler of Franklin township, and died ten years later, leaving the widow and three sons, who continued to make their homestead the farm on section 22.

From "Compendium and History of Cass County, Iowa." Chicago: Henry and Taylor & Co., 1906, pg. 168.