Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 293
LEVI F. FRIEND

Levi F. FRIEND, a representative farmer of section 33, St. John's Township, came to the county in 1882 and purchased his present place of Thurston Manderville, the same containing one hundred acres. It is all fenced and under a high state of cultivation. He follows general farming and raises stock for the market.

Mr. FRIEND hails from the Hoosier State, was born in Putnam County, Ind., February 15, 1838, and traces his ancestry back to Andrew FRIEND, his grandfather, who married Miss HOYT, by which union was born John FRIEND, the father of our subject. He was born in Bourbon County, Ky., in 1800. His father and mother both died when he was yet an infant and he was "bound out" to serve an apprenticeship as a fuller of cloth and came to Indiana in 1822, entered land and became a prosperous farmer. January 6, 1830, he married Miss Elizabeth K. FULLEN, daughter of John FULLEN, of Monroe County, Ind., formerly from Virginia.

By this union eleven children were born, six of whom still survive ---Francis in Illinois; John A. of Missouri Valley; Levi, of whom we write; Mahala, of Indiana; Mary, of Council Bluffs; Sarah, of Indiana; the remainder of the children are deceased. Death of mother March 5, 1861

Our subject's early life was spent in Indiana where he obtained a common-school education. He assisted on his father's farm until he became of age. He became a member of the Masonic order at that time and served as secretary most of the time until 1865. In February, 1865 he enlisted at Indianapolis as Sergeant in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Indiana Infantry, and was assigned to the Army of the West. He was on special and detached duty, participating in no regular engagements. He was first sent to Nashville and Pulaski, Tenn., and from there to Columbia, Tenn., where he remained until September 5, 1865, and was discharged at Indianapolis, Ind., the same autumn. He returned to Putnam County, rented his father's farm and in 1868 moved to Douglas County, Ill., where he tilled the soil until 1875, removed to Indiana and remained until the death of his father, April 13, 1879, and then came Harrison County, Iowa.

He was united in marriage November 24, 1857, in Indiana, to Delia, daughter of Burr and Almeda (BENEDICT) PARROTT, who were from Connecticut. Mrs. FRIEND ceased from the toils and cares of this life October 26, 1887, just as autumn was putting on her robes of beauty. She left three children---Cinderella, Mrs. WRIGHT, of Pottawattamie County, born September 19, 1859; Frank, at home, born November 22, 1864; and Andrew, at home, boan January 1, 1868.

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