"The first white settlements in Fayette County were made south of, and near the Neutral or Winnebago Reserve Line (the Mission Trial), in the part of the county that was included in the Black Hawk Purchase, and there is no knowledge or tradition of any such settlement prior to 1840, except the attempt of Edson & Grant to build a mill on Otter Creek (at to-be Elgin), although it is very probable that trappers and Indian traders may have built temporary cabins in this region prior to that time. These roving frontiersmen were accustomed to start out in the Fall, taking some flour and salt, build temporary cabins near some good spring or stream, sheltered by timber, and spend the Winter in hunting and trapping, thus sometimes, "made wages."

....In 1840, the Government established a military post north of Fayette.Co, in Winnesheik.Co, called Fort Atkinson, and three or four miles south established a Mission school (St.Lucas) for the Winnebagoes. This naturally attracted the attention of the pioneers of that day.
...In the Spring or early Summer of 1840, Franklin Wilcox, with his wife and little daughter, and his brother Nathaniel Wilcox, came from Illinois to Fayette County and made a settlement. Franklin Wilcox built a cabin thirty or forty rods north of the north line of Township 92-8, on unsurveyed land, six or eight rods west of a little creek that runs northerly through the southeast quarter of Section 32. The bed of the creek has changed since that time. Its channel was then east of the east end of the iron bridge that now spans the stream at that point. The site of this pioneer cabin as pointed out to the historian, on the 16th day of June, 1878, by Mr. Lamb, was about five rods northwest of the northwest corner of the west stone pier of the bridge, near some thorn apple trees. There appears to have been an excavation, and some of the stones of an old chimney are still to be seen (in 1870s). It is said that Wilcox did some breaking (1st plowing of land) either east of the creek or on the little sheltered prairie north of his cabin. If this is true, this was the first breaking done in Fayette County. Nathaniel Wilcox (Franklin's younger brother) made a claim east of his brother's place, on Section 1, Township 92, Range 8 (This was along Bear Creek in Section 1 of Smithfield Township.)  in what would be called Bear Grove).

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...Nathaniel Wilcox was born between 1816 and 1819.
….Mary Angelina Wilcox was born about 1820. She married Thomas Isreal in 1836 in Illinois and had her daughter, Ellen Louise, was born in 1838 in Canton, Fulton Co., Illinois. They appear to have divorced in September, 1939 in Illinois. Mary Wilcox would marry William O'Rear at Wilcox settlement in Fayette County.

….According to the "History of Fayette County, Iowa," Elias, Franklin and his wife and small daughter, and brother Nathaniel came from Eads' Grove, Delaware Co., Iowa to Fayette County and were some of the first settlers in the area after Fort Atkinson was established.

….Elias , the father, was a blacksmith and settled between the Mission and Fort Atkinson. Franklin built a cabin 30-40 rods north of the north line of Township 92-8. Nathaniel made a claim east of his brother's place. Mary Wilcox is also mentioned. The Wilcox's came with a man named Robert Gamble, who returned to Eads' Grove shortly after. Elias apparently went to Oregon around 1848 with his son Nathaniel. See Bancroft's "History of Oregon," Vol. I, page 752.

...There was a 'tradition' that some Wilcox built a cabin south of the Volga about 1835, ten years after the Black Hawk purchase. This would place the family in Fayette County between 1835-1840. However, another source remembers the family in Eads' Grove in 1840 when the family moved up on the Volga. This is reinforced by the fact that Mary Angelina Wilcox Isreal (O'Rear) had her daughter Ellen Louise Isreal in November, 1838 or 1840 in Canton, Fulton Co., Illinois, and Harriet had her daughter in New York in June, 1835. It is not known if they traveled together or separately and reunited in Fayette County.

...Franklin Wilcox died in Nevada City, California in 1851. Harriet Van Dorn, Franklin's wife, died in San Francisco in 1871. Mary & William O'Rear eventually moved to Missouri, probably before 1850 but they are not in the 1850 census in either Fayette County, Iowa or Nodaway County, Missouri. They had two children, Elias Dudley and Laura who may have been born in Iowa. Mary and William may have died in Maryville, Nodaway Co., in the early 1900s.

ABOVE: 1875 map; 1990's aerial below.  Andrew Hensley would start out on the Nathan Wilcox claim, but when the Indians were completely forced from the land and the area above the Mission Trail opened to the whites, Andrew Hensley would acquire farm and mill land about 1850 around 'Lightville' (Lima) and live his life farming and milling in the Lima, Albany, Frog Hollow valley of the Volga River, three miles immediately north of his first small fields in Bear Grove.

ABOVE: Many of the first settlers into Fayette County would utilize the Wilcox double cabin  and 'settlement' before establishing their own claim to land.  Franklin Wilcox would move to near the Fort in Winneshiek County about 1842, leaving the cabin to others to own and use, as was the case with his brother Nathan's claim in Bear Grove, which he would 'sell' to Andrew Hensley.

Joseph HEWETT, an Indian trader, who was well known to the early settlers, and somewhat connected with the history of Fayette county, established his trading post northwest of Strawberry Point, very near the east line of Fayette, in Clayton County, in 1840. He visited the region in 1839, and when the mission was established he thought the place he selected would be a good place for a trading post.  All of the early settlers interacted with each other along the Mission Trail and this was a time of little to no county structure.

George CULVER built a double log cabin on the north bank of the Volga, on Section 26 (about a mile east of Wadena), Twp 93 (Illyria), Range 7. Previous to 1839 he had been the Teller of the Ypsilanti Bank, Michigan. When Mr. HEWETT established a trading post near the Fayette CO line in 1840, Mr. Culver became his partner and moved thither. . . Mr. Culver entered, by land warrant, Sections 26 and 27, Twp 93, Range 7, January 25, 1849, very soon after the township was surveyed.

Samuel Baldwin Olmstead was involved with the Culver trading post and was the administrator for Fort Atkinson in the late 1830's into the 1840s. The Hewitt-Olmstead trading post was run by David Olmsted. However, Samuel Baldwin Olmsted was the "administrator" of this post, and David's brother. The name was spelled variously Olmsted and Olmstead. Their father was Timothy Olmsted "descended from some of the earliest Puritan colonists of Connecticut"

Robert GAMBLE came with the Wilcox's from Eads Grove. It is said that Gamble selected a location on the Reserve near a large spring, which afterward proved to be on Section 13, Township 93, Range 9, and the grove now known as "DUNHAM'S," north of the spring, was, in consequence, called "Gamble's Grove," and was known by that name in 1850, when the post office of "Gamble's Grove" was established, with Thomas WOODLE for Postmaster. Gamble's Grove was about four miles north northwest of Wilcox's cabin. Mr. Gamble did not remain long, however, as he was taken sick, was carried back to Eads' Grove in the Fall of 1840, and never returned to Fayette County.

There is a tradition that Wilcox built a cabin south of the Volga, about 1835, ten years after the Black Hawk Purchase, and spent some time here at that period hunting and trapping. This is purely tradition, however, as there is nothing to corroborate it. It is possible that Franklin Wilcox may have come to "spy out the land" prior to removing his family in 1840, but this is more than doubtful.  Mrs. Joel BAILEY, the daughter of Judge Clement COFFIN, of Coffin's Grove, Delaware, states that she was at Eads' Grove in 1840, when Wilcox and his family moved up on the Volga, and that he had not built a cabin there previous to that time. It is possible that the Wilcox cabin might have been a little further north of the spot indicated, but it could not have been very far.

About two hundred yards below (downstream on the creek or actually north toward the Volga River, bz) Wilcox's is a smooth bit of level ground, shaded by trees, which was in "ye olden time" a favorite camping ground for immigrants, and was, in consequence, dubbed "Uncle Sam's Tavern," or "The Continental House." As seen June 4, 1878, the terrific storm of the preceding Saturday night, June 1, must have flooded the site of "Uncle Sam's Tavern" eight or ten feet, and the water crept to within a few feet of the spot where, without doubt, Wilcox dwelt, the pioneer settler of Fayette County, thirty-eight years ago.

ABOVE: View north through sec 5 of Smithfield Twp, to the Wilcox settlement were many of the families would 'hold over' in the 1840's until they had acquired land and/or built cabins on their claims.  Today's village of Fayette would be 2 miles away, through the notch in the tree line in the middle of the picture.  It is a cold day with the temperature below zero, overcast with light blowing snow. 
....Winter weather in Fayette county can be very rugged from late November into late spring to about the end of March, depending on the year.  One can see the 'denuded' hill in the left background.  The tree-line was the actual 'break' between the wooded unglaciated hills to the NE of the Mission Trail across Fayette County, and the tall/wet grass rolling prairie hills and sloughs to the SW of the trail.  The white tide rapidly 'denuded' much of the forested areas and plowed small plot fields.  Plus wood was the total energy source except of several mills on the  Volga and Turkey rivers.  
....Franklin Wilcox built his cabin at the tree-line groove in the middle of the picture with Beatty and Orrear's cabin and dairy farm just to the south of Wilcox.  Teagarden and Atwood had their 'Indian' trading post along the trail about at the far left of this picture. 
....Andrew Hensley would move his family back to the Wilcox cabin from the Bear Grove area 4+ miles to the east after his wife had an encounter, at the Brown cabin where they were living, with three local Indians that scared her. 
....The Hensley family would remain at the Wilcox settlement until the next year when Andrew built his own cabin on the claim he has purchased in late 1842 from Nathaniel Wilcox, brother of Franklin. 
....It should be noted that these claimed lands were just that, marked and claimed by a pioneer and generally honored for later purchase when the land legally opened for ownership. 
....A personal note: my fathers family grew up on a farm of my gGrandfather Jessie Zbornik, on the SE corner section 6 of Smithfield at the end of the road the picture was taken from, overlooking the Teagarden massacre site 3/4 miles to the north.  My father trapped the 'Alexander' creek for several miles running along the prairie edge, just over the hill to the right of the picture, through the Wilcox settlement site, all the way to the Volga, a mile north of the Wilcox site.  I also trapped this exact same stream, coming from the village of Fayette, to do so.   My gGrandfather, Valentine Strayer, farmed the old farm of Col. Aaron Brown, located at the left tree-line, and adjacent to the Teagarden massacre site to the south.  My gGrandfather Walter Eugene Hunt farmed the land immediately to the north of the Wilcox cabin site. bz/2003)

Coming next, soon after Franklin Wilcox, probably the next year, two young men, James Beatty and William Orrear, or O'REAR, located and built a log cabin a few rods west of the creek & on the south side of the Mission Trail, on the northwest quarter of northeast quarter of Section 5, Township 92, Range 8.
....The Orrear cabin was located near a beautiful spring of clear water that still bubbles from the base of the hill. Mr. A.J. Hensley states that it was about forty rods south or southwest of Wilcox's place, just south of the old Mission Road, which at this point crossed the creek very nearly on the line between Townships 92 and 93, Range 8.  (A.J. Hensley being ten when he arrived in Fayette County was privilege to know and remember many of the first settlers and travelers along the Mission Trail to the Fort.  He would have been young but working right along with the men building a frontier life, thus he was a storehouse of living history for later times).
....Judge BAILEY, of Delaware, who spent some days here in Jan1843, says the Wilcox cabin was a little way below, in the timber. There appears to be some difference as to the orthography of O'Rear's name. In his marriage certificate it is spelled "Orrear," and as this is presumably the way he spelled his name, it is adopted in this history.
....It is impossible to fix the precise date of Beatty and Orrear's settlement, but in the Fall of 1842, their cabin was the stopping place for a few travelers on the old Mission road, and they had been there long enough to have made some improvements (small fields and out-buildings), and to have built some fences (split rail and brush). Both were unmarried then, and appear to have been industrious and hardworking farmers.

In 1841 or 1842 two Indian traders built a small log cabin for a trading post on the Old Mission Road. One of these was Mr. Atwood, and the other Henry or Moses Tegarden, or Tegardner (probably T. Garden).  These two were somehow engaged together in whisky trade with the Indians. Both were murdered by some Winnebagos in March 1843. At least one child of Tegarden's was also murdered at the same time. One version of the story is that two other children of Tegarden's were badly wounded but escaped. Their mother was not at home that night. Two sons were William and Daniel. Mrs. Valzick Tegarden married Zophar PERKINS August 5, 1846 and "Bill" married Perkin's eldest daughter, Absenath, August 6, 1847.

In 1841 or 1842, probably the latter, although it might have been earlier, a couple of roving Indian Traders, a Mr. Atwood and a Henry or Moses Tea-garden (Teagardner) built a small log cabin for a trading post, on the Old Mission Road as near the Neutral Line and the northernmost limits of the surveyed lands in Fayette County as an eligible site could be found. The records of the Dubuque Parish indicated a man named Henry T. Garden or T. Garden was on the record and lived in Dubuque County in 1837-1838. This man was an Indian trader, and afterwards removed to Fayette, where he was said to have been murdered by the Indians. The records of Clayton County, of later date, mention the names of the Tegarden or Tegardner family. Whether Henry and Moses were identical or were brothers cannot now be determined. Whether it was Garden or Tegarden is not material, but the latter is most familiar to Fayette people.

Whether Tegarden or Atwood, or both, built the cabin above mentioned, cannot now be determined. It was built on the NE ¼ of NE ¼ of the NW ¼ of Sec, 6, T. 92, R. 8, Smithfield Twp., very near a large spring about ½ or ¾ of a mile SW of Col. Aaron Brown’s present residence, and about twenty rods south of the township line. Circumstances indicate that whisky trade, as they were both murdered by some Winnebago Indians, in 1843, an account of which will be given hereafter. It is not known if both Atwood and Teagarden built the Trading Post, about 1 ¼ mi to the WxSW of the Wilcox Site, 3 miles SW of what is today’s Main Street Fayette, on the NE ¼, Sec 6, T92, R8, very near a large spring about ½ or ¾ mi SW of Colonel Brown’s residence in the late 1800’s. In 2000, you would take the first gravel road south of Fayette off Why 150. Go west to the first intersection, and look to the W/SW for about ¾ miles, and this would be the area of Teagarden’s Trading Post in 1842. The Wilcox Cabin, in 1842, is still back to the east about 1 ¼ miles. Teagarden’s would have been about 20 rods south of the township line and just to the south of Mission Road, which opened in 1840.  Records in Clayton County, a little later, mention the Teagarden or Tegardner family. It is not known if Henry and Moses were the same person or brothers. The name Teagarden was the one which would become familiar in Fayette County History

William Van Dorn, Mrs. Frank Wilcox's brother, came in 1843, and M. C. SPERRY located a claim near Mumford's about that time. A Mr. OATMAN, an elderly man, who had been a hotel keeper at La Harpe, Ill., located on the prairie near the little stream called Brush Creek. He began the construction of what was to be a hotel but decided there was no future for a hotel there and soon left the county.  (This unoccupied structure was used by people moving along the Mission Trail in the 1840's as temporary shelter. Andrew's wife would stop here on her way down the Trial after being 'scared' out of their 'Brown' cabin on the 'claim' at the head of Grannis Creek in 1844.) His son, Lorenzo, was killed by the Apaches while on the way to California in 1850. Another son and two daughters escaped. One of the daughters wrote a book about her experiences while a captive. James TAPPER was in Fayette CO in 1843 when he was appointed Supervisor of the road from Lowry's farm to the military road.

A Mr. MESSENGER settled about 40 rods east of the Tegarden spring, probably in 1844. John MOYNE located a claim near Bear Grove in 1844 but did not enter land or settle permanently until 1847. Madison BROWN built a rude cabin north of Bear Grove and located there with his family in 1844. In July 1845, D. J. FINNEY settled in Township 92, Range 7. Isaac WEBSTER had a claim on the Volga bottom a short distance east of Beatty's, lived with Beatty, and during the season of 1844, raised a crop of oats on part of the ground now covered by the village of Fayette (this is said to be the first crop raised in Fayette County).During the winter of 1845, Lorenzo MULLIKEN lived with Beatty (at Fayette).

In 1842 Andrew HENSLEY came from Wisconsin (Grant County, Prairie du Chien area) to Fayette County, and purchased the claim of Nathaniel WILCOX on or near Sec. 1, T. 92, Range 8, about five miles east of Beatty and Orrear's. Mr. Hensley went back to Wisconsin (Grant County, Priaire du Chien area??/bz) , intending to return in the same fall but sickness prevented his return. In September 1843, he returned as far as Eads' Grove, Delaware County, with his family, consisting of a wife and four children, among whom was Andrew Jackson HENSLEY when a lad of ten years. Here he spent the Winter (of 1843-1844). In the spring of 1844, he rented Joe Hewett's place, northwest of Strawberry Point, just in the edge of Clayton County, and moved his family into a little cabin about one and a half miles west of Hewett's, in the edge of Fayette County, owned by Moses, son of Joe Hewitt by his first wife. Here, November 27, 1844, Daniel P. HENSLEY was born, the first white child born in Fayette County, unless Mr. Mumford's baby, born in the brush near Yankee Settlement, is to be credited to Fayette.

Major Mumford’s date of settlement in Fayette County has been obscure. His given name is forgotten, but he was known among the pioneers as Major. He was living near Brush Creek in the Fall of 1842, and certainly settled there early in that year, or very possibly in the Fall of 1841. His cabin was in the timber a mile or two north of the present village of Brush Creek, in Twp. 92, R. 7, Fairfield, probably on or near Section 16, or the north side of Section 21. He had a little field on the edge of the prairie south of his house, but was not much of a farmer.

Within a year or two upon arrival the pioneer families began to intermarry.  William ORREAR and Mary A. WILCOX, both of Fayette County, were married on Feb 25, 1844, which appears to be the first marriage of Fayette settlers. On August 6, 1847, George CULVER and Margaret E. CASTALL were married by Rev. Simeon CLARK, the pioneer preacher of Delaware, and March 27, 1848, Charles GLIDDEN and Mary LOWE were married by Andrew HENSLEY J.P. Mr. (A.J.) Hensley states that William VanDorn and Miss MESSENGER were married in 1845, but the marriage is not recorded.

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The Mission Road ran from Dubuque, Iowa, the major Mississippi River river port, northeast across Dubuque, Clayton, Fayette Counties and into Winnesheik County to Fr. Atkinson, a military fort erected under the guise of "protecting" the Winnebago Indians of the area from the Sioux, but in reality would function as a trail to lead supplies and white settlers into the area in the 1840’s.

When the United States government first began to service the Neutral Lands, in the late 1830’s, Dubuque was the seat of supervision, and a trail (the Mission Trail) was established between Dubuque and Fort Atkinson. Later, in 1841, an official "Territorial Road" was plotted following the old trail. Because the majority of early settlers in northeastern Iowa came in over this trail, it has significant historical value. Many of the early pioneers would travel the early trails/roads multiple time’s searching/probing for land to claim. Early settlers often were not sure which land was the best, what was available in another place, if they wanted to put forth the significant effort to make a farm go in an area, or if they really wanted to make an area their permanent home. There was a lot of wondering, claiming, and moving in the early years. The early roads and trails often followed the time proven trails of the Native Americans and game trails. The early roads were just worn paths in the timber or through 6-12 ft tall prairie grass, or broad areas of travel where ox-teams were guided along ridges to avoid wet grass prairie, sloughs, stream crossings. Level paths were always at a premium so loads did not have to be split and hauled up the big hills. Generally reach individual settler/teamster had to use his own judgment as to the course of travel. As more travel occurred, the best route became more worn and more travels, thus was the establishment of many of the early roads in Fayette County that would be traveled well into the 1900’s.

From the Edgewood area of Clayton County, the trail followed a range of hills to the future town of Strawberry Point, which was built along the old trail, with the long east-west main street being called Mission Street. About three miles west and three miles north of the Point, half way to Brush Creek (Arlington), an Indian trader, Joseph Hewitt, who had a trading post utilized by both Indians and white men in 1840. His trading post was often a resting-place for early settlers whiles they ventured out looking for ground to settle on. The ox-trains hauling supplies and produce to the military post at Fort Atkinson stopped at Hewitt’s on a regular basis.

From Hewitt’s trading post, the Mission Road continued northwesterly for about four miles to the future town of Brush Creek (Arlington), just south of the creek which would also be known as Brush Creek. Here in later days the town’s Main Street, which runs diagonally to the NW, was built along Mission Road. About three miles NW of the Brush Creek crossing, a Major Mumford settled on a claim and built a cabin in 1842 (exact timeline has not been verified). The Mumford’s may have been the parents of the first white child born in the area (This statement conflicts with that of Daniel P. Hensley being the first white child born in Fayette Co, 1844.)

The new Mission road continued NW over the "Corn Hill" country. Culver soon bought out Hewitt and moved the post to a point about a mile east of Wadena, next to the hill on the N side of the Volga River, as it was nearer the Indians in the Neutral Lands just to the north of Wadena and the Elgin Valley which was always a major settlement for the Indians on the Turkey River. This time frame was probably 1841-1842. About this time, Nathaniel Wilcox took a claim just west of the big spring in the Grannis Canyon, which at that time was to the north of Bear Grove which included the timber areas of the present day Brush Creek Park, to the north of Arlington.  (Note: If this info is correct, then the statement in the 1878 History of Fayette Co, that Nathaniel settled a claim in Bear Grove, Sec 1 of Fairfield Twp, is not correct.  The big spring in Grannis Canyon is located on the east-central side of Sec 36, of Westfield Twp. bz/2003. . Andrew Hensley bought the Nathaniel Wilcox claim in late 1842, thus would have initially settled at the head of the Grannis Hollow or Canyon.  And the first crop of wheat in Fayette County would probably have been up the valley west of the spring where the creek bottom is fairly steep but still flattened out enough for typical small pioneer fields.  This information conflicts with the 1878 History of Fayette Co.  bz/2003)

From the Corn Hill area the Mission Road turned to the W and continued to a point a couple of miles SW of present day Fayette. Two miles south of Fayette and about a half mile west, off present day Hwy 150, Franklin Wilcox, in 1840, erected the first permanent log cabin in Fayette County (there is a granite marker on the site today, just to the west of the bridge crossing the little stream, and to the north of the road). It has been written Wilcox broke up a small area close to the cabin and planted it to garden and oats. If so, this would justify as the first land broken in Fayette County. Just north of the Wilcox cabin, around the bend of the creek and below a cove in the hillside was a favorite camping spot known as " Uncle Sam’s Tavern," by the early settlers. The area offered a flat, protected, secluded area with fresh water nearby.

At this time the Wilcox cabin was in the south edge of Sec. 32 of Westfield Twp., in un-surveyed land. The four SE townships of Fayette County, Fairfield, Smithfield, Scott and Putnam, had their boundary lines surveyed in 1836 and sup-divisions were made in 1837. The north line of Fairfield and Smithfield was not surveyed until 1848. It is not known if Wilcox knew this or not at the time.

In 1842 or 1843 about a year after the Wilcox cabin went up, a pair of unmarried young men, James Beatty and William Orrear, settled about 600 feet south of the Wilcox cabin and erected a cabin in the north edge of Sec 5 of Smithfield Twp., near a spring. They were reported to be very industrious, and broke land and erected split rail fences. In February of 1844, Orrear married Mary Wilcox, daughter of the elder Franklin Wilcox, who by that time had moved on up the trail to a point near what would be called Dunham’s Grove. This was reported as the first marriage in Fayette County. In 1847, the Orrears sold their holdings to Horace Bemis who entered the NW ¼ of Sec 5, of Smithfield Twp., which was the first official entry of land in Fayette County. In the meantime Beatty squatted on land near the western edge of the future town of Westfield/Fayette.

The Mission Road beyond the Orrear claim followed a line of low hills about a quarter mile south of the Westfield Twp. Line, to a point near the intersection of Smithfield, Harlan, Center and Westfield Twps., where it turned north. There it crossed the southern boundary of the Neutral Lands just north of the Volga River crossing and on the boundary line of Center and Westfield Townships. Along the Road between Orrears and the township corners were several squatters cabins, including that of Henry Teagarten, who had a trading post for the supply of whisky, black power long guns, power, ball and flint, and other supplies for the Indians and early settlers. Teagarten’s cabin was located about a mile east and a quarter mile south of the four-township corner, near a large spring. This would be the site of the "Teagarten massacre" references elsewhere in the history of Fayette County.

The Mission Road continued into the Neutral Land across the eastern edge of Center Twp. Continuing in a NW direction across Windsor Twp., into Windsor Twp., into Auburn Twp., crossing the Little Turkey river and proceeding in a N direction just east of the present day St. Lucas and into Winneshiek Co., Washington Twp., to Ft. Atkinson.

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THE FIRST TERRITORIAL ROAD IN FAYETTE COUNTY
A commission as assigned in 1841 to locate a 'first road' in the county. 
It would follow the randomly wide Mission Trail.
from "The History of Fayette County Iowa 1878

An Act to establish a territorial road from the town of Dubuque on the Mississippi River to Fort Atkinson was approved January 31, 1841. (Up to this time an informal route the Mission Trail was used, however the new 'Territorial Road' would follow the Mission Trial route.) Calvert Roberts, Samuel L. Clifton and Joseph Hewitt were appointed to locate the road. The Dubuque County part of the road seem to be the main focus of the Act and since the Act dealt with Fayette County it was repealed in February 16, 1842, and much of the location declared vacated. The repealing act; itself was repealed June 11, 1845. Peter D. Sharp, David Moreland and William J. Anderson were appointed by the Legislature to re-locate the road through Dubuque County, to Colony and Ead’s Grove (Manchester) and then northward into Fayette County and on to Fort Atkinson.

The road as located in 1841, followed very nearly the old trail, entering Fayette County near the SE corner of T92, R7, of Fairfield Twp., passing Joe Hewitt’s Trading Post (near Brush Creek), then to the NW , south of Bear Grove, through Twp 92, R7, and Smithfield, Twp92, R8, passing a little north of the cabin of Beatty and Orrear, near where it intersected the road from Quasqueton and Marion. Then by a circular route, running 15 or 20 rods south of the Teagarden Spring, sweeping the to the north running near the west lane of Sec 31, T93, R8, Westfield, until it passed the quarterpost. Then the road changed its course to the NE crossing the Volga River very near the township line between Smithfield and Westfield, about a quarter of a mile east of the west line of those entering the east side of Sec 36, Twp 93, R9, Center Twp., but running for a short distance in Sec 30, Twp 93, R 8, Westfield, and then continuing in to general northwesterly direction to the north line to Twp 94, R9, Windsor Twp., which it crossed very near the northwest corner of Sec 3, Twp 95, R 9.

The following order of the County Commissioners of Clayton County appears of record August 26, 1841: Ordered, That the report of Calvert, Roberts, Samuel S. Clifton and Joseph Hewitt, Commissioners, appointed by the Legislature of Iowa to locate a road from Dubuque to Fort Atkinson, be received, and they be allowed the sum of forty dollars and fifty cents, each, for services in running said road through Fayette and Clayton Counties, and Alfred L. Brown be allowed the sum of forty dollars and fifty cents as surveyor of said road, and also the sum of eight dollars for drafting plat, being extra services. Also. Allen Wilson and Moses Hewitt, chairmen, be allowed the sum of twenty-seven dollars each, and also George Culver, as marker, be allowed the sum of twenty-seven dollars, and Franklin S. Wilcox, as stake driver, be allowed the sum of sixteen dollars, and that Joseph Hewitt be allowed the sum of twenty dollars and twenty-five cents for services of team.

On the same day, having an eye on business, the Commissioners divided the expense and charged Fayette with her full share, as follows:

Wereas, The Territorial road from Dubuque to Fort Atkinson having run twenty miles and a quarter in this county, and twenty-nine miles and three-quarters in the county of Fayette, at an expanse of two hundred and eight-seven dollars and twenty-five cents, and the county of Clayton having liquidated the whole amount, therefore be it Ordered, That two-thirds of the above sum, together with interest until paid, be charged to the county of Fayette.

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The First Crop of Wheat in Fayette Co, Iowa, was grown by Andrew Hensley, 1844-45
and the trip to the mill by his young boys, A.J. and Jacob
from the 1878 History of Fayette Co, Iowa.
 

During the Summer of 1844, Andrew Hensley employed Daniel B. Noble, of Yankee Settlement, to break some prairie on his claim, north of Bear Grove. During the Winter of 1844-5, he moved his family into the cabin built by Madison Brown (probably in Grannis Canyon), and, in the Spring (of 1845) made a quantity of maple sugar.

In the fall of 1845, Mr. (Andrew) Hensley, who had sown winter wheat on the land he had broken the previous Fall, raised a bountiful crop. This was the first wheat known to be grown in Fayette County. In the Autumn, as soon as he could get some of it threshed and dry enough to grind, he sent his two boys, Andrew J. (12 years old)  and Jacob G. (9 years old) with twelve bushels loaded on an ox wagon to Cascade in Dubuque County to mill. (Note:  Today, 2003, this is 75 miles to the SE of Fayette by modern highway.)  It was not an easy task" to go to mill" in those days, and the boys were gone eight days. They had reached Hewett's (on the Clayton/Fayette County line) on their way home with the first flour made from Fayette County wheat, but during the night their oxen strayed away and the next morning, not finding their team (several hitches of oxen) they started for home (about ten miles on foot). They were barefooted, and were in constant dread of rattlesnakes as well as Indians. Arriving in sight of home (either just north of Bear Grove or in upper Grannis Canyon)  the boys were terrified, that they could discover no signs of life about the premises, and fearing that the rest of the family had been captured and carried away by the Indians. They approached their home very cautious, with heavy hearts but were much relieved and rejoiced when they found their father and mother at the other side of the cabin, digging potatoes. Mr. (Andrew) Hensley went to Hewitt's, found the stray oxen and brought the flour home in safety. The boys dreaded the Indians, and the family appears to have had good cause for hating their un-comfortable and "insolent" neighbors.

…In 1845, says A. J. Hensley, William Van Dorn and Miss Messenger were married, although the marriage is not recorded in Clayton County (then the governmental seat for what would be Fayette County) and when Mr. (Andrew) Hensley moved out of the (Franklin) Wilcox cabin, the newly married couple moved into it. (Note:  It seems that the Hensley's like many of the first families into Fayette County along the Mission Trail made temporary residence in the double cabin just south of present day Fayette, built by Franklin Wilcox in 1840. In this case Mrs. Hensley would not go back to the 'Brown' cabin (probably at the upper end of Grannis Canyon), where they were living in at the time she had a run-in with three Winnebago Indians in 1844, before building on their own claim at the northwest edge of Bear Grove on Bear Creek.  bz/2003) This was probably the first marriage in Fayette, County, if, as is to be presumed, the wedding was at Mr. Messenger's house, and Orrear's wedding was at the elder Wilcox's house at the Mission (Franklin Wilcox had moved up to the Mission area near Ft. Atkinson in Winneshiek County about 1842.). It may be well to add that the double cabin of (Franklin) Wilcox was standing late as 1851.

…In the Spring or Summer of 1845, Webster sold his claim on the Volga (at what is presently the field area at the south end of today's Fayette) to Lorenzo Mulliken, and returned to Dubuque. Mulliken immediately commenced the construction of a stone fence at the edge of the bluff surrounding the south part of his claim (in today's south Fayette). Andrew J. Hensley (age 12) worked with Mulliken and Horace Bemis, who bought the Orrear improvements the next year, aided him in completing it. Mulliken died in 1847, and was one of the first settlers at Yankee Settlement (Colesburg), Delaware County, and his father, Samuel Mulliken, was one of the County Commissioners of Delaware County in 1847-8. (Note: A.J. Hensley would spend much of his later life in the village of Fayette, the same place was helping Mulliken and Bemis farm and built a stone fence in 1845, ten years before Fayette would be platted.  Thus perhaps his early years in the Fayette valley, 5 miles from his Lima area home, would be a memory that attracted him back.  He was well known and respected in Fayette, knowing almost every early first pioneer of the Volga River Valley in Fayette County.  He is buried at Fayette in Grandview Cemetery.)

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Location of Andrew Hensley from 1844 to 1849
The Bear Grove and Grannis Hollow areas along the Corn Hills.
He was along the Mission Trail at the very edge of the hill and prairie country in Fayette County, Iowa.

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ABOVE:  The view is east across sec 1 of Smithfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa.  In 1842 Andrew Hensley bought the claim of Nathaniel Wilcox.  Nathanial had 'marked' a claim to land in about 1840, the same time his older brother Franklin Wilcox has claimed land 4+ miles to one's back when viewing this picture of west.  The claim was on the northwest side of Bear Grove near Bear Creek, the remnants which can be seen at the left of this picture.  What was to become known as the 'Corn Hills' is the rolling hill line in this picture.  The corn hills run from near Arlington to near Fayette and represent the break between the unglaciated area to the left, NE, of the picture and the glaciated prairie to the right, SW, of the picture.  The deep prairie roots were extremely difficult to 'break open' or nearly impossible to plow with the early pioneer soft iron or wooden plow boards or shares.

ABOVE: To the left of the pictures, a mile+ away is Grannis Creek and a claim of Madison Brown just upstream or west of the big spring in Grannis Canyon (Hollow).  Andrew would acquire this claim in 1844 and live at least some of the fall/winter time in the primitive cabin Brown had built.  It might be here the Mrs. Hensley had her 'upsetting' encounter with three Indian braves.  This same late fall of 1844, Andrew hired Daniel Nobel, apparently from Yankee Settlement (Colesberg in Clayton County) to bring his oxen yokes to this Bear Grove claim and open a small field, which would have been in or near the trees showing in the above picture., where Andrew planted the winter wheat, and would the next spring harvest the first wheat crop in Fayette County.  Franklin Wilcox apparently broke a small field area open near his cabin and harvested the first 'crop' in Fayette County, a small oat crop in 1841,  just after he built the cabin in 1840.  Throughout the 1840's there were very, very few plowed fields in Fayette county.  Most were in open stream bottoms, with some in patches cleared of brush and timber.  The deep prairies were basically untouchable until the late 1850's. By the early 1860's the prairies W and SW of the Mission Road were rapidly 'broken' by 'sod busters,' men who had learned to make and use very large, heavy single bottom plows pulled by 6-9 yoke of oxen (a yoke is a team or two oxen).  PERSONAL NOTE:  My Thompson clan  at Brush Creek (Arlington) were among the first 'sod busters' in the area, thus they rapidly acquired much of the prime land to the immediately to the west of Arlington, or opened new farms for their relatives and neighbors.  Some of the next generation took the 'sod busting' knowledge and ability westward to Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma to the short grass prairies, after the Indians were 'run off' the land.

ABOVE:  The natural vegetation on the Corn Hills was a variety of prairie grasses interspersed with shrugs and trees. About a mile over the ridge to the NE of the trees was the Madison Brown claim that Andrew Hensley would acquire sometime around the spring of 1844.

ABOVE:  The view is to the SW from the head of Grannis Creek that leads down Grannis Hollow. The same tree line is the same as the second picture above with Bear Grove off to the left, SE, of the picture.  His claim and the Madison Brown cabin would have been about a half mile down Grannis Creek, to ones back when viewing the above picture. After the 'Indian scare' in the winter of 1844/45, in the Brown cabin near Grannis Spring, Mrs. Hensley would not return to the cabin.  The family apparently spent some of that winter in a rented cabin from Hewitt on the Fayette, Clayton county line, but by the spring of 1845, were living in the Franklin Wilcox cabin.  This was a double sided cabin which apparently housed more than one family in transition.  By the fall of 1845, Andrew and young sons would have completed there own cabin at the Bear Grove site, probably near or in the tree line below.

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…During the Summer of 1844, Andrew Hensley employed Daniel B. Noble, of Yankee Settlement (Edgewood), to break (first plowing) some prairie on his claim, north of Bear Grove (in Sec 1, of Smithfield Twp.  During the Winter of 1844-45. Andrew moved his family into the cabin built by Madison Brown (probably at the head of Grannis Canyon, just to the north of the 'claimed' land north of Bear Creek that he bought from Nathaniel Wilcox)  and, in the Spring of 1845 made a quantity of maple sugar.
...One day that spring (1845), Mr. Hensley had occasion to go to Hewett's cabin with whom he had some business. His son, Andrew J. (Jackson), or "Jack," as he is familiarly called, accompanied him. They expected to return home the same night, but Mr. Hewett was away, and they waited for him. .
...Mrs. Hensley with the four younger children, were left alone. During the afternoon, three Indians approached the house, and one of them entered. He was insolent, and by signs, not to be misunderstood, endeavored to drive Mrs. Hensley and her children away. She was not to be driven, however, and endeavored to induce the Indian to leave, but he was as stubborn as she. She had informed him that she was expecting her husband every minute, and went out to see if he was coming. She was becoming frightened. …The Indian followed her out, and rudely grasped her by the shoulder. She was a strong, muscular woman, however, and proved more than a match for her tawny assailant. She shook him off and nearly threw him down. In the melee, he struck her a severe blow across the breast with his musket. As soon as she recovered her breath, she went back into the cabin, fastened the door, and watched. There were two loaded muskets in the house and she determined to shoot her insolent foe if he dared to attempt to enter again. He cautiously approached and peered over the door, but, discovering her determined attitude, he did not attempt to enter.
…After nightfall Mrs. Hensley, becoming satisfied that her husband and son were not coming home that night and thoroughly alarmed, concluded that the only safety for herself and little ones was in flight. Accordingly. after making a few hasty preparations, she took her baby, Daniel P.,  about 6 months old and her next youngest child 1+ year, Richard (would die in the Civil War) in her arms, and with the others (two children, Elizabeth 5, and Reuben L. 4) , quietly stole out of the cabin and started for Hewett's cabin ten miles away.
…Arriving at "Oatman's" light house" (abandoned cabin on the north edge of Brush Creek, today's Arlington about seven miles away) she left the older children (Elizabeth 5 and Reuben L. 4)  there alone, bidding them keep quite until she returned and pushed on through the darkness, arriving late at night at Moses Hewett's, about a mile west of Joe Hewett's trading post (near the Fayette/Clayton County line, another 5 miles).

This exciting adventure with her Winnebago neighbors rendered Mrs. Hensley nervous and worried. She refused to go back to the Brown cabin to live and Mr. (Andrew) Hensley moved into the (Franklin) Wilcox cabin, at (Wilcox 'settlement') near Beatty's where his family lived until he built a house on his own Claim, into which he moved early in the Fall 1845 (This would have been the Franklin Wilcox double cabin in sec 31 of Westfield Twp, the 'safe heaven' for a number of settlers moving into the area).

It is said that one afternoon, during the following Summer (1846), Mr. (Andrew) Hensley detected an Indian stealthily following him, when he concealed himself behind the upturned roots of a fallen tree and determined to shoot if the native approached nearer than a stump that stood about twenty yards away. The Indian came to the designated point and concluded to go no farther in that direction. Another account states that there was "a deal of dodging about for two or three hours."

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hensley genealogy

Hensley Plot in the Lima Cemetery

Hensley related burials in the Lima Cemetery

Hensley Andrew 1805 January 03 1878 74y1m5d 74 3 67

Hensley Sarah 1820 May 31 1872 53y6m 53 3 Wife of Andrew

Hensley R.L. July 01 1841 August 03 1929 88 3 67

Hensley Doretha August 10 1841 July 01 1889 47 Not listed in records & no stones found. Burial?

Hensley Richard N. June 11 1843 July 09 1863 20 3 67 Co. G 38 IA Inf. Civil War, died Vicksburg, grave unknown.

Hensley Daniel P. November 27 1844 May 16 1926 Age? 3 Co. G 38 IA Inf. Civil War; dates from genealogy.

Hensley Sarah Jane Blakesly July 14 1852 October 14 1914 62 3 67 Wife of R.L.; maiden name from genealogy.

Hensley Cordelia Hulbert(plot) November 01 1853 November 15 1926 73 3 Wife Albert, dau of Andrew, this data from Hensley genealogy.

Hensley Ida Jones(plot) 1873 1966 93 3 Wife of Frank T., dau of Reuben L. Hensley, data from genealogy.

Hensley Andrew 1805 January 03 1878 74y1m5d 74 3 67

Hensley Sarah J. July 14 1852 October 14 1914 62 3 67 Wife of R.L.

Breckon Nettie (Hensley_,October 20 1881 February 22 1916 35 3, dau of Reuben L. Hensley

Jones Ida (Hensley). 1873 1966 93 3 Wife of Frank T.

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Descendants of George Hensley

1   HENSLEY, George b: 1722 in Essex, Spotsylvania.Co.VA d: 1786 in Spotsylvania.Co.VA Note 1: Jan 2006 Hensley surname last edited:  Barry.Zbornik  Hannibal.MO  iowaz@hotmail.com
.. +RICHARDSON, Sarah b: 09 Jan 1717/18 in St George Parish, Spotsylvania.Co.VA d: 19 Jan 1772 in Spotsylvania.Co.VA m: 1743 in Spotsylvania.Co.VA
2   HENSLEY, William b: 1744 in Spotsylvania.Co.VA d: 30 Mar 1778 in Warwickshire.Co.England
2   HENSLEY, George b: 1748 in Spotsylvania.Co.VA d: 1811 in Henry.Co.KY
2   HENSLEY, Sarah b: 1750 in Spotsylvania.Co.VA
2   HENSLEY, Catherine b: 1752 in Spotsylvania.Co.VA
2   HENSLEY, Christopher Chrisley b: 1754 in Spotsylvania.Co.VA d: 1812 in Tazewell Co, VA Note 1: Mar 2006 Hensely surname last reviewed; Barry Zbornik, Hannibal, MO,  iowaz@hotmail.com Note 2: ?Is Chrisely the father of Wm. James1779? Note 3: Called Chrisley. Note 5: Bet. 1769 - 1775 Apprenticeship to Peter Taliafero, to learn trade of carpenter & joiner. Note 8: 1773 Moved to 1+mi ExNE of Jeffersonville, Montgomery Co, VA. Note 9: Abt. 1780 Farmed 200a N side Rich Mt & 300a N side Jump Mt, Mont.Co.VA
.... +TOMPKINS, Catherine b: in Russell Co, VA d: 25 Apr 1804 in Spotsylvania.Co.VA Father: Benjamin THOMPKINS Mother: Elizabeth GOODLOW
... 3   HENSLEY, James b: 1770 d: 1850
... 3   HENSLEY, Daniel b: 1774 in Logan Co, KY d: 1860 in Logan Co, KY
....... +DAVIS, Jemima b: 1784 in Amherst Co, VA d: 1860 in Logan Co, KY m: 25 Jul 1809 in Floyd Co, KY Note 3: Called Minnie.
..... 4   HENSLEY, Daniel b: 1804 in KY
..... 4   HENSLEY, Phoebe b: 1813 in Floyd Co, KY
..... 4   HENSLEY, Nancy b: 1815 in VA
..... 4   HENSLEY, Lucinda b: 1821 in KY
..... 4   HENSLEY, Elizabeth b: 1826 in VA
..... 4   HENSLEY, Permilia B. b: 1829 in Logan Co, KY
..... 4   HENSLEY, Sabra b: 1832 in KY
..... 4   HENSLEY, Rebecca b: in Lawrence Co, KY
... 3   [22] HENSLEY, William James b: 1770 in Logan.co.KY d: 1850 in Edgar.Co.IL (or Logan Co, KY) Note 2: Bet. 2000 - 2003 Research info shared/supplied with Golda.Stitz, bz/2003 Note 3: Wives & chidlren of Wm. James Hensely con't to be speculated, Golda/bz/2003. Note 7: 1790 In Tazewell.Co.VA. Note 9: 1800 Census; Morgan, Buncombe.Co.NC Note 11: 1810 Census: Floyd.Co.KY, farming, wf, 2sons, 2dau & 6 slaves. Note 12: 1820 Census; Floyd Co, KY. Note 13: 1822 Moved Floyd.Co.KY to Edgar.Co.IL. Note 15: 29 Jun 1823 Power of Attorney:  give for 'something' to son Aaron, of Pike.Co.KY by father James of Edgar Co, ILL; to bz from Golda.Stitz/2003. Note 16: 1830 Census; Clark Co, IL, 1m 0to5, 2m 5to10, 2m 10to15, 2m 15to20, 1m 20to30, 1m 50to60. Note 17: 19 Aug 1838 ?James Hensley, land patent, Coles Co, IL. Note 19: 1840 Census:  Clark.Co.IL
....... +HOWARD, Martha Lewis or b: 1783 in KY d: 1822 in IL m: Abt. 1801 in Logan.Co.KY
..... 4   [7] HENSLEY, Andrew Jackson b: 18 Nov 1803 in Folyd.Co.KY d: 03 Jan 1878 in Lima, Sec 13, Westfield.Twp, Fayette.Co.IA Burial: Lima Cemetery, Sec 3, lot 67, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa Note 3: Middle name likely Jackson. Note 5: 1822 Moved KY to Edgar Co, IL, east edge, ExSE of Springfield. Note 7: Sep 1839 Moved to Grant Co, Wisconsin, east of Dubuque, Iowa. Note 8: 1843 Settled near Ead's Grove (Manchester), Delaware Co, Iowa. Note 9: 1844 Settled near Bear Grove, 3mi ExSE of Fayette village, Fayette Co, Iowa. Note 11: 1849 Final move, near Lima, Fayette Co, Iowa.  Adj1850 are: Levi.Watrous25NC, HenryH.Light25NY, CrotusA.Light28NY, StephenH.Ludlow40NY. Note 12: 1850 Census: Lima, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.  Hensley: Andrew1804KY farming $400, Sarah1819IN, AndrewJ1834MO, JacobC1836IL, Eliz1839IL, Reuben1841IL, Richard1843WI, Daniel1845IA, Sarah1848IA. Note 13: 01 Mar 1852 Land Entry: 40a, S1/4 of SE1/4, sec 24, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA. Note 14: 1852 Census:  farming, sec 24, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA, 5m & 3f. Note 15: 1854 Census: farming, sec 24, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA, 6m & 4f. Note 16: 15 Jun 1854 Land Entry: 80a, SE1/4 of NW1/4, sec 24, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA. Note 17: 15 Jun 1855 Land Entry: 40a NW1/4 of SW1/4 & SW1/4 of  40 NW1/4, sec 20, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA. Note 26: 1856 Census: farming N & adj to Albany, Fay.Co.IA. Hensley:  Andrew52, Sarah36, JacobJ20, Eliz17, Reuben15, Richard13, Daniel11, SarahJ8, Cordelia4, Caroline2. Note 27: 1860 Census: N edge of Albany, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.  Hensley:  Andrew57 farming $2k/1k, Sarah41, JacobG24, Reuben18, Rechard16, Daniel14, AarahJ11, Cordelia6, Caroline5. Note 28: 1870 Census: farming N & adj to Albany, Fay.Co.IA. Hensley: Andrew66 $2k/1k, Sarah50, Rubin28 $1k/818, Cordellia17, Caroline16, James14.
......... +LEWIS, Susanna Susan b: 06 Jun 1806 in RI or Virginia d: 1837 in Edgar.Co.IL or MO m: 16 Sep 1824 in Edgar, Edgar.Co.IL Father: Elias LEWIS Mother: Priscilla LEWIS Note 2: Called Susan. Note 5: Married by Samuel McGee, Minister of Christian Ch.
........ 5   HENSLEY, Cynthia Ann b: 25 Sep 1825 in Edgar.Co.IL d: 1830 in Edgar.Co.IL
........ 5   [1] HENSLEY, Isaac Lewis b: 29 Jan 1827 in Edgar.Co.IL or KY d: 17 May 1864 in Civil War, Memphis, TN Burial: Old Marshaltown Cem, Ringgold Co, IA Note 2: 1843 Did not move to Fayette Co, IA with parents. Note 3: Bet. 1849 - 1850 In Eldorado (Amador) Co, CA, John Carpenter, Ira Allen group, alone. Note 5: 1854 Cabin on Grand R.,  S. of Benton, Ringgold Co, IA Note 7: 1862 Jackson Co, IN back to Ringgold Co. Note 8: 26 May 1864 Enlisted, 37y, Co G, 4th Reg, IA Inf. Note 9: 26 Mar 1864 Died 2wk after enlisting. Note 10: Farm, Ringgold Co, IA, in sec 2, T68R31 & sec 7, T668R30.
............ +MILLSAP, Elizabeth Jane d: in KS or MO Burial: Isaac returned mother/dau to Ringgold Co, IA. m: 1847 in Edgar Co, IL?
........... 6   HENSLEY, Lorinda d: in KS or MO Burial: Isaac returned mother/dau to Ringold Co, IA.
........ *2nd Wife of [1] HENSLEY, Isaac Lewis:
............ +OGLESBY, Lorinda b: 17 May 1823 in Letcher, KY d: 26 Nov 1890 in Mt. Ayr area, Ringgold Co, IA Burial: Old Marshaltown Cem, Ringgold Co, IA m: 21 Jun 1851 in Jackson Co, IN Father: Washington OGLESBY Mother: Maria OGG Note 3: Name? Laurinda Ogles. Note 8: Bet. 1885 - 1890 Living with dau Clarissa. Note 9: Died, home of dau Clarissa, 67y6m19d
........... 6   HENSLEY, Mary Maria b: 03 Aug 1853 in Jackson Co, IN d: 30 Aug 1858 in Cabin on Grand River, Ringgold, Co, IA
........... 6   [2] HENSLEY, William Cornelius b: 27 Apr 1856 in Cabin on Grand River, Ringgold Co, IA d: 18 Sep 1939 in Home of dau. Lydia. Burial: Diagonal Cem, C-24, Ringgold Co, IA Note 3: Abt. 1876 Ringgold Co, IA to KS Note 5: One child with first wife, ten with second. Note 7: All children, ex. Sylvia, buried side/side; old Marshaltown Cem.
............... +HORN, Dolly d: Abt. 1876 in KS, childbirth Burial: Old Marshaltown Cem, Ringgold Co, IA m: Abt. 1876 Note 3: Abt. 1877 William sent body back to Ringgold Co, IA
............. 7   HENSLEY, Lorinda b: Abt. 1876 in KS d: Abt. 1876 in Ringgold Co, IA, wks after birth. Burial: Beside mother, old Marshaltown Cem, Ringgold Co, IA Note 2: Died a few wks after birth.
........... *2nd Wife of [2] HENSLEY, William Cornelius:
............... +WHITED, Minerva Ann b: 01 May 1858 in Madison Co, IA d: Sep 1941 in Home of dau. Lydia. Burial: Diagonal Cem, C-24, Ringgold Co, IA m: 22 Jan 1880 in Iowa Father: Francis WHITED Mother: Mary Ann BEADLE Note 1: Surname analogs: Whited. Note 3: Ten children, 3 lived to adulthood.
............. 7   HENSLEY, Walter L. b: 13 Feb 1881 in Ringgold Co, IA d: 29 Jan 1885
............. 7   HENSLEY, Rosetta May b: 17 Oct 1882 in Ringgold Co, IA d: 21 Dec 1882
............. 7   HENSLEY, Lucy Allie b: 16 Dec 1883 in Ringgold Co, IA
................. +GILLASPY, Ira Joseph d: 13 Sep 1935 m: 1901
................ 8   GILLASPY, Myrtle Alice b: 20 Aug 1902 in Lucas, IA
.................... +LONEY, Dewey m: 05 Mar 1918
................ 8   GILLASPY, Thomas Robert b: 15 Jul 1904 in Lucas, IA
.................... +OXENRIDER, Alice Veneta m: 30 Nov 1921
................ 8   GILLASPY, Clarence Marlin b: 12 Aug 1917 in Lucas, IA d: 22 Mar 1919
................ 8   GILLASPY, Franke b: 09 Oct 1919 in Lucas, IA
.................... +WILLIAMS, Beatrice m: 11 Sep 1932
............. 7   HENSLEY, Mary Myrtle b: 11 Sep 1885 in Ringgold Co, IA d: 13 Jan 1886
............. 7   HENSLEY, Lydia Lylock b: 16 Jan 1887 in Ringgold Co, IA
................. +BLANCHARD, Fred m: 1905
................ 8   BLANCHARD, Anthony b: 1905 in Iowa
.................... +WATTS, Wilma m: 1929
................ 8   [3] BLANCHARD, Manerva b: 1906 in Iowa
.................... +CONLEY, Harley
................ *2nd Husband of [3] BLANCHARD, Manerva:
.................... +BROWN, Arthur
................ 8   BLANCHARD, Lloyd b: 1908 in Iowa
.................... +BEAMAN, Valema m: 1934
................ 8   BLANCHARD, Fern b: 1910 in Iowa
................ 8   BLANCHARD, Manuel b: 1915 in Iowa
................ 8   BLANCHARD, Virgil b: 1917 in Iowa
................ 8   BLANCHARD, Pearl b: 1919 in Iowa
.................... +WOODS, Donald m: 1937
............. 7   HENSLEY, James Harrison b: Oct 1888 in Ringgold Co, IA d: Oct 1888
............. 7   HENSLEY, Carrie Bell b: 04 Feb 1890 in Ringgold Co, IA Note 3: Lived Ottumwa, Wapello Co, IA
................. +TALLMAN, Perry d: 10 Nov 1935 m: 03 Oct 1906 Note 3: Lived Ottumwa, Wapello Co, IA Note 5: Killed by a car.
................ 8   TALLMAN, Raymond b: 22 Oct 1907 in Ottumwa, Wapello Co, IA d: 24 May 1917
................ 8   TALLMAN, Albert Lee b: 29 May 1909 in Ottumwa, Wapello Co, IA
.................... +BROWN, Leona m: 1929
................ 8   TALLMAN, Cecil Orval b: 17 Feb 1911 in Ottumwa, Wapello Co, IA
.................... +BROWN, Edith
................ 8   TALLMAN, Mildred A. b: 08 Oct 1912 in Ottumwa, Wapello Co, IA
................ 8   TALLMAN, Frances Harold b: 12 Dec 1914 in Ottumwa, Wapello Co, IA d: 14 Aug 1916
................ 8   TALLMAN, Hazel b: 08 Oct 1916 in Ottumwa, Wapello Co, IA d: 08 Oct 1916
................ 8   TALLMAN, Howard b: 14 May 1918 in Ottumwa, Wapello Co, IA
................ 8   TALLMAN, Helen Louise b: 1922 in Ottumwa, Wapello Co, IA
................ 8   TALLMAN, Perry b: in Ottumwa, Wapello Co, IA
................ 8   TALLMAN, Wanda Hazel b: 22 Apr 1924 in Ottumwa, Wapello Co, IA
................ 8   TALLMAN, David Ralph b: 02 May 1929 in Ottumwa, Wapello Co, IA
................ 8   TALLMAN, William Anthony b: 26 Dec 1930 in Ottumwa, Wapello Co, IA
............. 7   HENSLEY, Sylvia Dell b: 01 Aug 1892 in Ringgold Co, IA d: 19 Jul 1921 in Home in St. Joseph, MO Burial: Diagonal, IA cem. Note 1: Died, age 29.
................. +MCGUIRE, Ernest m: 1913
................ 8   MCGUIRE, Dale b: 1914
................ 8   MCGUIRE, Maxine b: 1915
............. 7   HENSLEY, Benjamin F. b: 02 Dec 1894 in Ringgold Co, IA d: 07 Jan 1895
............. 7   HENSLEY, Emily Olive b: 04 Dec 1897 in Ringgold Co, IA d: 16 Feb 1898
........... 6   [5] HENSLEY, Clarissa Enfield b: 04 Jun 1862 in Jackson Co, IN d: 05 Jul 1917 in Knowlton, Ringgold Co, IA Burial: Knowlton Cem, Ringgold Co, IA Note 3: 1885 After 2nd marriage to 'north house.' Note 5: 1896 Sold house/farm share to Wm. Hensley. Note 8: Funeral, M.E. Ch, Knowlton, Ringgold Co, IA
............... +RAINS, William Allen b: 02 Jan 1860 in Osage Co, MO d: 27 Feb 1887 m: 03 Jul 1879 in Mt. Ayr, Ringgold Co, IA Father: Allen RAINS Mother: Francis Manerva HOLLINGSWORTH Note 1: 03 Jan 1859 Birth date?
............. 7   RAINS, Annie St. Clair b: 27 May 1880 in Old Marshaltown, Ringgold Co, IA
................. +MORRILL, Oliver Winifred b: 20 Mar 1878 in Leavenworth Co, KS m: 20 Jun 1906 Father: Elias MORRILL Mother: Eliza Ann MERRIETT
................ 8   [4] MORRILL, Arminta Claris b: 12 Jun 1901 in New Virginia area, Warren Co, IA
.................... +SANDERS, Lorn m: 15 Aug 1917
.................. 9   SANDERS, Rosanna b: 15 Aug 1919
...................... +CAMPBELL, Thomas m: 1942
.................. 9   SANDERS, Blossem b: 16 Aug 1920
...................... +CROOKS, Patrick Arthur m: 1938
.................. 9   SANDERS, Attie Lorn b: 28 Dec 1923
.................. 9   SANDERS, George Oliver b: 25 Dec 1924 d: 1931
.................. 9   SANDERS, Iris May b: 19 Jan 1927
................ *2nd Husband of [4] MORRILL, Arminta Claris:
.................... +MCDONALD, Orvill m: 1936
................ 8   MORRILL, Iva Marie b: 20 Feb 1903 in New Virginia area, Warren Co, IA
................ 8   MORRILL, Lillie May b: 20 Jun 1905 in New Virginia area, Warren Co, IA
................ 8   MORRILL, Violet Ruth b: 23 May 1910 in New Virginia area, Warren Co, IA
................ 8   MORRILL, Paul Winfred b: 04 Feb 1912 in New Virginia area, Warren Co, IA
................ 8   MORRILL, Percy Ray b: 20 Nov 1914 in New Virginia area, Warren Co, IA
............. 7   RAINS, William Luther b: 27 Jul 1882 in Old Marshaltown, Ringgold Co, IA d: Apr 1965 in Calif
........... *2nd Husband of [5] HENSLEY, Clarissa Enfield:
............... +WHITED, John Jefferson b: 07 Jul 1860 d: 23 Apr 1933 in Diagonal, Ringgold Co, IA Burial: knowlton Cem, Ringgold Co, IA m: 16 Sep 1885 in Mt. Ayr, Ringgold Co, IA Father: Francis WHITED Mother: Mary Ann BEADLE Note 3: Farmed, Ringgold Co, IA Note 5: 1896 To farm NE of Knowlton, Ringgold  Co, IA. Note 12: Died, dau Minnie's home, Diagonal, Ringgold Co, IA.
............. 7   WHITED, Andrew Jackson b: 10 Aug 1886 in Ringgold Co, IA Note 3: LIved, Diagonal area, Ringgold Co, IA
................. +CONLEY, Flora Alice m: 22 Aug 1909
................ 8   WHITED, Elbert Lyle b: 27 Feb 1912 in Iowa d: 10 Apr 1980
................ 8   WHITED, Cecil Leonard b: 11 Jan 1916 in Iowa
............. 7   WHITED, Dora May b: 26 Jan 1888 in Ringgold Co, IA Note 3: Lived, Creston area, IA
................. +INGRAHM, Clyde Leroy m: 04 Jun 1913
................ 8   INGRAHM, Iven Leroy b: 10 Mar 1915
................ 8   INGRAHM, Dorothy Pauline b: 16 Feb 1919
............. 7   WHITED, Minnie Myrtella b: 11 Feb 1891 in Ringgold Co, IA d: 1972 Note 3: Lived, Dubuque Co, IA
................. +KELLER, Charles b: 1887 d: 1963 m: 31 Aug 1909
................ 8   KELLER, Raymond b: 19 May 1910 in Iowa
................ 8   KELLER, Lola b: 07 Nov 1913 in Iowa
................ 8   KELLER, Elise b: 13 Aug 1915 in Iowa
................ 8   KELLER, Hazel b: 20 Jan 1918 in Iowa
................ 8   KELLER, Ernest b: 09 Apr 1920 in Iowa
................ 8   KELLER, Velma b: 20 Jul 1924 in Iowa
................ 8   KELLER, Glayds b: 26 Oct 1927 in Iowa
............. 7   WHITED, Allie Ray b: 24 Feb 1895 in Ringgold Co, IA Note 3: Lived, Dubuque Co, IA
................. +MCCREARY, Ethel Jenvere m: 23 Jun 1917
................ 8   WHITED, Clarence Elden b: 09 Nov 1918 in Ringgold Co, IA
................ 8   WHITED, Trilby Marion b: 15 Oct 1920 in Ringgold Co, IA
................ 8   WHITED, Evelyn Jewel b: 05 Jul 1923 in Ringgold Co, IA
........ 5   HENSLEY, Emmaline b: 06 Feb 1829 in Edgar.Co.IL d: 1830 in Edgar.Co.IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, Malinda b: 28 Apr 1831 in Edgar.Co.IL d: 1835 in Edgar.Co.IL

........ 5   [6] HENSLEY, Andrew Jackson 'Jack' b: 03 Dec 1833 in Mississippi River Island, 21 miles below St. Louis, MO d: 26 Sep 1925 in Fayette, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Burial: Fayette, Grandview Cem, Sec C, Lot 315, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa Note 5: 1850 Census: Lima, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.  Hensley: Andrew1804KY farming $400, Sarah1819IN, AndrewJ1834MO, JacobC1836IL, Eliz1839IL, Reuben1841IL, Richard1843WI, Daniel1845IA, Sarah1848IA. Note 10: 1860 Census: 65a farm $1200/850, sec 10 in Frog Hollow 1+mi N of Albany, Fay.Co.IA.  Hensley:  A.J.26, Loretta18, GeoW9m. Note 12: 1865 Moved to old home at Lima, continued to farm at Lima, sec 13, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA. Note 14: 31 Aug 1866 Appointed postmaster at Lima, Fay.Co.IA, served until 1877; twp. trustee & sch. director. Note 16: 1870 Census:  Wesffield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA. Hensely: Andrew36, Loretta29, Geo10, Susan6. Note 19: 20 Aug 1878 Appointed postmaster at Lima, Fay.Co.IA. Note 20: 1880 Census: in Lima village plat, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA:  Hensley:  AndrewJ46, Loretta38, Susie16. Note 22: 1885 Census:  farming at Lima, living bk 11, lot 10.  Hensely:  AndrewJ51, Loretta43, SusieA21. Note 25: 1891 Moved from Lima with dau. Susie to Fayette village. Note 26: Aft. Jul 1894 Remarried & lived in 500 block, S. King.St, Fayette.IA; near Strayer & Parker.  Dau Susie Potter remained in possession of Lima farm/property. Note 27: 1910 Census: S.King.St, Fayette.IA. Hensley: AndrewJ76, Catherine56. Note 28: 1920 Census: S.King.St, Fayette.IA, near Dr.Parker & Val.Strayer.  Hensley: AndrewJ86 retired, KatherineM85, s/law Mary Jane Perry74/WI. Note 29: Called 'Uncle Jack' by young relatives; member of UB Ch of Lima, M.E. Ch of Fayette.
............ +SMITH, Loretta 'Doretha' b: 10 Aug 1841 in Winnabago Co, IL d: 10 Jun 1889 in Fayette, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Burial: Fayette, Grandview Cem, Sec C, Lot 315, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa m: 25 Nov 1858 in Lima (U.B.Ch?), Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, IA Father: Lewis SMITH Mother: Elizabeth PORTER Note 7: 1856 Came form IL to Fayette.Co.IA, with parents, age 14. Note 14: Member, United Brethren Ch, Lima.
........... 6   HENSLEY, George W. b: 18 Sep 1859 in Sec 10 farm, 1+mi N of Albany, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 30 May 1880 in Lima area, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa Burial: Likely unmarked in Lima Cem, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA, bz/2012 Note 22: Burial not listed in original Grandview burial book at Fayette.IA, bz/2012. Note 23: Inscription only on Hensley marker age 20y8m12d in Grandview.
............... +UNMARRIED
........... 6   HENSLEY, Susan Elizabeth 'Susie' b: 06 Oct 1863 in Sec 10 farm, 1+mi N of Albany, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 28 Nov 1943 in Fayette, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Burial: 30 Nov 1943 Grandview Cem, sec C, lot 315, 3 from N. Side, burial #2047, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA. Note 3: Called Susie.
............... +POTTER, Thomas W. b: 02 Sep 1858 in Kane.Co.IL d: 12 Jan 1941 in Fayette, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Burial: 15 Jan 1941 Grandview Cem, sec C, lot 315, 2nd-4' from N side, burial #1955, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA. m: 04 May 1892 in Fayette, Fayette Co, IA Father: Robert POTTER Mother: Sarah DAW Note 22: 1920 Census: North.St, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA. Potter:  ThomasW61IL retired, Susie nee Hensley56IA. Note 24: 1930 Census: State.St, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA.  Potter: ThomasW71 retired, SusieH68.
............. 7   POTTER, George Hensley b: 03 Mar 1895 in Lima area, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, IA d: 05 Jul 1954 in Rochester, Olmsted.Co.MN Note 8: 1925 Living at Preston.MN.
................. +WEBSTER, Hallie May b: 31 May 1898 in Decorah, Winneshiek.Co.IA d: 09 May 1976 in Rochester, Olmsted.Co.MN m: 05 Aug 1919 in Fayette Co, IA Father: Harrison Martin WEBSTER Mother: Ida Mae KIMBALL
................ 8   POTTER, Thomas Webster b: 21 Jun 1920 in Reading, Noble.Co.MN d: 09 Jun 1987 in Littleton, Arapahoe.Co.CO
................ 8   POTTER, Virginia b: 02 Feb 1922 in Walker, Cass.Co.MN d: in Chatfield, Fillmore/Olmsted.Co.MN
................ 8   POTTER, Gordon H. b: 25 Aug 1923 d: Feb 1984
........ *2nd Wife of [6] HENSLEY, Andrew Jackson 'Jack':
............ +CAMERON, Katherine M. 'Kitty' b: 13 Jun 1848 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee.Co.WI d: 31 May 1934 in Charles City, Floyd.Co.IA Burial: 03 Jun 1934 Grandview Cem, Sec C, Lot 315, N side, burial #1681, Fayette.IA. m: 25 Jul 1894 in Fayette, Fayette Co, Iowa Father: Archibald CAMERON Mother: Jenette 'Janet' Purcell PERCELL Note 5: 1870 Census: 20y/WI, with parents, Trenton, Washington.Co.WI. Note 19: 25 Jul 1894 Living in Fayette.IA at time of marriage to A.J. Hensley. Note 27: Burial book: Cause of death listed senility, at Charles City, age 76, bz/2012.
........... 6   HENSLEY, No Children
........ 5   HENSLEY, Jacob Goodwin b: 14 Jan 1834 in Coles.Co.IL d: 25 Nov 1913 in Chico, Butte.Co.CA Burial: Chico Cem, large marble rect. marker,  Butte Co, CA Note 2: Called 'Good.' Note 11: 1850 Census, Fayette Co, IA Note 14: 14 Jan 1834 Birth; given on death certificate. Note 16: 1870 Census; farming, Albany/Lima area, Westfield.Twp. Note 19: 1870 Census, Fayette Co, IA; sold his land, went to CA. Note 20: Jun 1870 Goodwin30OH, Rodaz25OH, Ella6IA, Eliza5IA, Charles6mIA, Allen Henry 50bkVA. Note 22: 1880 Census; Big Valley, Lassen Co, CA
............ +NOBLE, Rhonda Marie 'Rosa' b: 18 May 1843 in Covington, Wyoming.Co.NY d: 19 Sep 1923 in Thompson Flat, Chico area,  Butte.Co.CA Burial: 21 Sep 1923 Chico Cem, unmarked,  Butte Co, CA m: 21 Dec 1861 in Lima, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Father: John Ezekiel NOBLE Mother: Sarah M. ROMER
........... 6   HENSLEY, Mary Ellen Ella Jane b: 27 Nov 1861 in Albany, Lima area, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa d: 13 Nov 1943 in Chico, Butte.Co.CA
............... +BEARSE, William Orlando b: 18 Jun 1853 in Pittsfield, Franklin.Co.ME d: 11 Dec 1923 in Colusa.Co.CA m: 19 Feb 1879 in Big Valley Lassen.Co.CA Father: Lebbeus (suspect) Burse BEARSE Mother: Eveline Libby UNKNOWN
............. 7   BEARSE, Sixteen Children b: Bet. 1880 - 1901 in Chico area, Butte.Co.CA
........... 6   HENSLEY, Sarah Ellen b: 10 May 1865 in Albany, Lima area, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa d: 04 Jun 1926 in Chico, Butte.Co.CA
............... +KENYON, Charles M. b: 30 Mar 1857 in Shasta.Co.CA d: Apr 1938 in Shasta.Co.CA m: 27 Oct 1879 Father: Chalres KENYON Mother: Eliza Jane HESTER
............. 7   KENYON, Hattie J. b: 29 Jan 1880 in Bieber, Lassen.Co.CA d: 09 Aug 1946 in San Francisco, CA
............. 7   KENYON, Evie b: Aug 1883 in Chico, Butte.Co.CA
............. 7   KENYON, George B. b: Feb 1885 in Chico, Butte.Co.CA
............. 7   KENYON, Everett Raymond b: Aug 1886 in Chico, Butte.Co.CA d: 31 Jan 1954 in Contra Costa, CA
............. 7   KENYON, Andrew Amos b: 01 Apr 1888 in Chico, Butte.Co.CA d: 27 May 1956 in Tehama, CA
............. 7   KENYON, Mary Ella b: 02 Jan 1890 in Chico, Butte.Co.CA d: 15 Jun 1955 in Butte.Co.CA
............. 7   KENYON, Floyd b: Apr 1892 in Chico, Butte.Co.CA
............. 7   KENYON, Roy Gerald b: 05 May 1893 in Chico, Butte.Co.CA d: 09 Aug 1958 in Butte.Co.CA
............. 7   KENYON, Nellie b: 23 Dec 1896 in Chico, Butte.Co.CA d: 18 Jul 1956 in Butte.Co.CA
............. 7   KENYON, Clyde b: Nov 1899 in Chico, Butte.Co.CA
............. 7   KENYON, Susie b: 1903 in Chico, Butte.Co.CA d: 21 Apr 1991 in Butte.Co.CA
........... 6   HENSLEY, Thomas Andrew b: 02 Jan 1871 in Albany, Lima area, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa d: Feb 1903 in Oroville, Butte Co, CA Note 2: Middle name? Jefferson?
............... +STEWART, Lenorah Matilda b: 15 Feb 1872 in Durham, Butte Co, CA d: 30 Aug 1939 in Sacramento, CA m: 14 May 1892 in Oroville, Butte Co, CA Father: William STEWART Mother: Lenorah Matilda GUDGEL Note 3: Called Nora.
............. 7   HENSLEY, Mildren Belle b: 08 Feb 1894 in Durham, Butte Co, CA d: 1969 in Pacer, CA
................. +CONCKREN, Archie
............. 7   HENSLEY, Grace Eleanor b: 05 Dec 1896 in Chico,  Butte Co, CA d: 17 May 1935 in San Francisco, CA
................. +MCELROY, Ernest Edmond b: 28 May 1892 in Chico,  Butte Co, CA d: 11 Mar 1984 in Reno, Washoe Co, NV m: 30 Mar 1915 in Oroville, Butte Co, CA Father: William Alfred MCELROY Mother: Julia Ann HOOSIER
............. 7   HENSLEY, Beatrcie b: 11 Feb 1900 in Chico,  Butte Co, CA d: 10 Nov 1978 in San Leandro, Sanoma Co, CA
................. +NORTON, Charles Howard m: 24 Dec 1917
............. 7   HENSLEY, Walter Bruce b: 18 Feb 1902 in Chico,  Butte Co, CA d: 21 Aug 1973 in Los Angeles, CA
................. +ANDERSON, Myrtle Piercelle m: 03 Jan 1924
........... 6   HENSLEY, Charles S. b: 03 Feb 1880 in Chico area, Butte.Co.CA
............... +HOPKINS, Philomena
........... 6   HENSLEY, James Birdie b: 1885 in Chico area, Butte.Co.CA d: 28 Feb 1891 in Chico area, Butte.Co.CA Burial: Chico Cem, on father's marker, Butte.Co.CA
........... 6   HENSLEY, Ralph E. b: 1886 in Chico area, Butte.Co.CA d: 1930 in Chico area, Butte.Co.CA Burial: Chico Cem, sm. marble rect. marker,  Butte Co, CA
..... *2nd Wife of [7] HENSLEY, Andrew Jackson:
......... +LOVELL, Sarah b: Abt. Nov 1818 in Crawford Co, IN d: 31 May 1872 in Lima, Sec 13, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa Burial: Lima Cemetery, sec 3, lot 67, Sec 13, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa m: 19 May 1838 in Edgar Co, IL Father: Reuben LOVELL Mother: Elizabeth BRADBURY Note 3: 19 May 1838 Marriage, Edgar.Co.IL, Bk1,p28,#1219 Note 22: Age at death; 53y6m.
........ 5   HENSLEY, Elizabeth b: 03 May 1840 in Coles or Edgar Co, IL d: 27 Nov 1909 in Decorah, Winneshiek Co, IA Burial: Russell Fam Cem, Winneshiek Co, Iowa
............ +RUSSELL, Thomas b: 20 Oct 1822 in IL d: 01 Sep 1897 in Decorah, Winneshiek Co, IA Burial: Russell Fam Cem, Winneshiek Co, IA m: 1857 in Lima, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa Father: Nicholas RUSSELL Mother: Mary Margaret CONLEE Note 3: Father b.NC, mother KY. Note 5: Bet. 1858 - 1860 In Calif. Note 8: 1860 Census:  Canoe.Twp, Winneshiek.Co.IA.  Russell: Thomas35IL farming $500, Eliz21, AnnaC1. Note 13: 1870 Census:  farming, Canoe.Twp, Winneshiek.Co.IA. Note 15: 1880 Census:  Canoe.Twp, Winneshiek.Co.IA.  Russell: Thomas57, Eliz41, CharlesA12, JamesN10. Note 22: 1885 Censsu: NWofSW sec 28, Cannoe.Twp, Winn.Co.IA:  Russell:  Thomas58, Eliz45, Charles16, James14; bro? Wm62ILwid & Clar14IA
........... 6   RUSSELL, Cynthia Ann b: 1858 in CA d: Bet. 1860 - 1870 in CA or Winn.Co.IA
........... 6   RUSSELL, Charles A. b: 1868 in Burr Oak area, Canoe.Twp, Winneshiek.Co.IA
........... 6   RUSSELL, James N. b: 1871 in Burr Oak area, Canoe.Twp, Winneshiek.Co.IA

........ 5   [8] HENSLEY, Reuben L. b: 01 Jul 1841 in Coles or Howard.Co.IL d: 03 Aug 1929 in Fayette village, Westfield.Twp, Fayette Co, IA Burial: Lima Cemetery, sec 3, lot 67,  Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Note 22: 1910 Census: home farm, sec14, N edge Albany, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.  Hensley: Reuben68, SarahJ57, dau NettieH Breckon28wid. Note 24: 1920 Census: home farm, sec14, N edge Albany, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.  Hensley: Rueben78, Mary69. Note 29: Cause of death; stroke.
............ +BLAKENEY, Sarah Jane b: 14 Jul 1852 in Pennsylvania d: 14 Oct 1914 in Sec 14 farmstead, 1/2mi NW of Allbany, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Burial: Lima Cemetery, sec 3, lot 67, Sec 13, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa m: 01 Jan 1871 in Auburn (Douglas), Auburn Twp., Fayette Co, IA Father: Joseph P. BLAKENEY Mother: Jane UNKNOWN Note 12: 1871 From West Auburn area, Auburn.Twp, Fay.Co.IA, at time of marriage. Note 22: Death; senility, arteriosclerosis.
........... 6   HENSLEY, Ida b: 23 Mar 1873 in Lima Albany area, Wesfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa d: 21 Jan 1966 in West Union Hospital, Fayette Co, IA Burial: Lima Cem in sec 3, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.
............... +JONES, Frank T. b: 09 Sep 1869 in Farm 3mi E of Lima in Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 16 Mar 1942 in Farm in Albany area, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Burial: Lima Cemetery in sec 3, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA. m: 01 Jan 1894 in Lima Community Church, Lima, Sec 13, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa Father: William JONES Mother: Anne SAUNDERS Note 5: 1880 Census: Wadena area, Illyira.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.  Jones: Wm57 farming, Ann48, ClareE21, WmC19, GeoW17, NaomiJ15, EmelyM13, FrankiT10, moather Ann86. Note 8: 1900 Census: Albany area, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.  Jones: Frank30 farming, Ida27. Note 10: 1910 Census; Albany area, Fay.Co.IA.  Jones: FrankT40 farming, Ida37, ReubenW9, HerbertH1y10m. Note 12: 1912 Census: Albany area, Fay.Co.IA.  Jones: Frenk50 farming, Ida46, Ruben17, HerbertH12.
............. 7   JONES, Reuben b: Abt. 1901 in Albany, Lima area, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa d: 09 Jan 1986 in Fayette Co, IA Note 8: 1929 On the Hensley farm at Albany with grandfather. Note 9: 1942 Farming adj to hm farm near Albany, Fay.Co.IA. Note 11: Wrote 'Creek Bottom Comments,' for the Fayette.IA paper.
................. +MERCER, Clara b: in KY d: in Waterloo, Bk.Hawk.Co.IA m: 13 Jan 1930
................ 8   JONES, Betty June b: 28 Sep 1930 in Wadena area, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 01 Oct 2008 in San Antonio, TX
.................... +SPRAGUE, Donald Arthur b: 23 Mar 1929 in Oelwein, Jefferson.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 06 Jun 2003 in San Antonio, TX
............. 7   JONES, Herbert Hensley b: 24 Dec 1906 in Albany, Lima area, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa d: 14 Jun 1963 in Fayette Co, IA Burial: Lima Cem in sec 1, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA. Note 5: 1929 At college in Ames.IA. Note 7: 1963 Died 1963?), thrown from young horse.
................. +KILE, Mary m: 10 Aug 1947 in Fayette Co, IA
................ 8   JONES, Marjorie
........... 6   HENSLEY, Nettie B. b: 20 Oct 1881 in Sec 14 farmstead, 1/2mi NW of Allbany, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 22 Feb 1916 in Sec 14 farmstead, 1/2mi NW of Allbany, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Burial: Lima Cem, adj to mother, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA. Note 3: Attended UIU where met husband. Note 5: Aft. 01 Oct 1905 Lived at Evanston.IL while husb finished Garrett Biblical Institute. Note 11: Aft. Feb 1906 Moved back with parents on Albany arm after husb died; never remarried. Note 14: Remained on home farm & assisted parents as mother became more ill. Note 22: Feb 1916 Fayette paper: died after 2wks illness with measles, at Albany.IA farmstead of parents.
............... +BRECKON, Albert W. b: May 1874 in Oneida.Twp, Delaware.Co.IA d: 22 Feb 1906 in Evanston, Cook.Co.IL Burial: Earlville, Delawre.Co.IA m: 20 Sep 1905 in Hensley farmstead, 1/2mi NE of Albany, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Father: John BRECKON Mother: Sarah E. UNKNOWN Note 5: 1880 Census: Earlville area, Oneida.Twp, Delaware.Co.IA.  Breckon: John39 farming, Sarah33, Edgar9, Bertie6. Note 7: 1900 Census: Oneida.Twp, Delaware.Co.IA.  Breckon: John59 farming, SarahE43, EdgarJ29, AlbertW26. Note 8: May 1903 Graduated from UIU where met bride, Nettie B. Hensley of Lima.IA. Note 10: Bet. 1904 - 1906 Meth. theological study, Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, Cook.Co.IL. Note 12: 01 Mar 1906 Fayette paper: A.W. Becken has died of yellow jaundice & paralysis at Evanston; body taken to his home in Earlville, Delaware.Co.IA.
............. 7   BRECKON, No Children
........ *2nd Wife of [8] HENSLEY, Reuben L.:
............ +JONES, Mary Ann b: 12 Jan 1856 in Lima area, in Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 16 Apr 1946 in Lima area, Fayette.Co.IA Burial: Lima Cem, lot 76 of sec 3, sec 13 of Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa. m: 11 Apr 1916 in Residence in Fayette, by Rev. Daniel Parker Father: James JONES Mother: Anne SAUNDERS Note 5: Divorced Bill Rice, 1st Husband.
........... 6   HENSLEY, No Children
........ 5   HENSLEY, Richard N. b: 11 Jun 1843 in Grant.Co.WI (NE of Dubuque.IA) d: 08 Jul 1863 in Battle of Vicksburg, Warren.Co.MS Burial: Lima Cemetery, sec 3, lot 67, Sec 13, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, IA Note 3: 1862 Civil War, Co. G 38th Iowa Inf. GAR, enlisted, Aug. 11, 1862,
............ +UNMARRIED
........ 5   [10] HENSLEY, Daniel Parker b: 27 Nov 1844 in Hewitt cabin on Mission Trail, east edge of Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa. d: 16 May 1926 in West Union, Union Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa. Burial: Lima Cemetery, sec 3, lot 67, Sec 13, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa Note 2: 27 Nov 1844 Claimed as the first white child born in Fayette.Co.IA. Note 3: ?Middle name possibly Perkins, bz/2004? Note 8: 15 Aug 1862 Civil War, Co. G 38th Iowa Inf; enlisted Aug 15, 1862; disc Aug 6, 1863, disabled. Note 13: 1880 Census; laborer, Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, IA. Note 15: Bef. 1910 Farmed,  Columbia Falls area, MT Note 17: 13 Feb 1912 House burned, near Rawson's Mill, Mill Grove area, S of Wadena, Fay.Co.IA; moved back to Lima. Note 19: 1925 Census: Albany area, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.  Hensley: DanielP80, HarrietA nee Ward70.
............ +WHITE, Jennie L. b: Abt. 1848 in New York d: 10 Aug 1904 in Utah or Idaho m: 23 Mar 1873 in Lima, Westfield Twp,  Fayette Co, IA Father: Unknown WHITE Mother: UNKNOWN Note 3: Called Minnie.
........... 6   HENSLEY, Mina b: 1878 in Clayton Co, Iowa d: 23 Jan 1916 in Utah or Idaho
........... 6   [9] HENSLEY, Edwin Richard b: 05 May 1881 in Clayton Co, Iowa d: 23 Jan 1912 Note 5: 1912 Married, in Chicago, widow from Manchester.
............... +WIDOW, Unknown Note 3: Likely sis/law of Mrs. Nettie Bracken.
........... *2nd Wife of [9] HENSLEY, Edwin Richard:
............... +UNKNOWN, Minnie m: 12 Jul 1909
........ *2nd Wife of [10] HENSLEY, Daniel Parker:
............ +WARD, Harriet Almira 'Hattie' b: 21 Aug 1854 in Clinton, Rock Co, Wisc. d: 21 May 1939 in Dau Arley's home, West Union, Fayette Co, IA m: 22 Feb 1910 in Wadena, Fayette Co, IA Father: Clark Stowe WARD Mother: Caroline Ann BALLARD Note 3: Abt. 1852 Came to Fayette co, IA, with parents, age 2. Note 5: 12 Dec 1912 ?Divorce from Daniel Hensely? Note 14: 1930 Census:  Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.  Kelly:  EarnestE61 farming/renting, ElizabethM52, CecilM16, ElizabethM13, m/law HarrietA nee Ward Hensley75.
........ 5   HENSLEY, Sarah Jane b: 21 May 1848 in Cabin at Bear Grove, Sec 1, Smithfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa d: 05 Sep 1884 in Brush Creek (Arlington), Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa Burial: Taylorsville Cem, Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa
............ +PERKINS, Rebuen b: 28 Sep 1840 in Jackson Co, Iowa d: 10 Mar 1924 in Arlington, Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa Burial: 12 Mar 1924 Taylorsville Cem, Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa m: 04 Jul 1864 in West Union, Fayette Co, Iowa Father: Calvin PERKINS Mother: Eda Edith SCOTT Note 2: Ten Perkins burials are in Taylorville Cem. Note 3: 1868 Farm in sec 14 & 11, Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, IA Note 5: 1879 In Albany on Andrew Hensely farm.
........... 6   PERKINS, Carloine Amanda b: 20 Jul 1866 in Taylorville farm, Sec 14, Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, IA d: 26 Feb 1940 in Eugene, OR Burial: Rest Haven Cemetery
............... +WALTENBAUGH, James Elmer b: 09 Oct 1860 d: 27 Mar 1953 in Eugene, OR Burial: Rest Haven Memorial Park, Eugene, OR m: 13 Sep 1883 in Elkader, Clayton Co, Iowa Father: James WALTENBAUGH Mother: Nancy HUNTER
............. 7   WALTENBAUGH, Nellie Bell b: 17 Jul 1884 in Fayette Co, Iowa
................. +DARR, Walter Clinton d: 1955 m: 11 May 1904
................ 8   DARR, Lavon b: 1905 d: 1979 in Oregon
.................... +FISH, George b: 1895 in Iowa
.................. 9   FISH, Boyd Burdell b: 27 May 1924
.................. 9   FISH, Virginia b: 17 May 1926
................ 8   DARR, Clifford LeRoy b: 08 Sep 1911
................ 8   DARR, Irvin James b: 03 Dec 1917
................ 8   DARR, Marlin Howard b: 06 May 1921
................ 8   DARR, Lloyd Destesr b: 27 Mar 1926
............. 7   WALTENBAUGH, Elsie Mae b: 22 Feb 1886 in Howard Co, Iowa d: 14 Feb 1944 in Volga City, Sperry Twp, Clayton Co, Iowa Burial: Hillcrest Cem, Volga City, Iowa
................. +BLAKE, Verneer Frank b: 1880 d: 18 Jul 1961 Burial: Hillcrest Cem, Volga City, Iowa m: 28 Jan 1910 Father: Morris BLAKE Mother: Cynthia HAWTHORN
................ 8   BLAKE, Russell Eugene b: 09 Oct 1906 in Volga City, Sperry Twp, Clayton Co, Iowa d: 1982 in Cedar Falls, Iowa
.................... +CHRISTOFFERSEN, Marie Ann m: 28 Dec 1929 in Cedar Falls, Iowa
.................. 9   BLAKE, James b: 1931 d: 1931
.................. 9   BLAKE, William Eric
...................... +JOHNSON, Nancy Lee
................ 8   BLAKE, Merton James
............. 7   WALTENBAUGH, Nettie Jane b: 02 Nov 1887 in Fayette Co, Iowa
................. +BELL, William
................ 8   BELL, Viola
................ 8   BELL, Gladys
................ 8   BELL, Hazel
............. 7   [11] WALTENBAUGH, Elma Inez b: 06 Sep 1889 in Fayette Co, Iowa
................. +DUFFY, Patrick
................ 8   DUFFY, Franic
................ 8   DUFFY, James
................ 8   DUFFY, Irene
............. *2nd Husband of [11] WALTENBAUGH, Elma Inez:
................. +CROWE, Ralph
............. *3rd Husband of [11] WALTENBAUGH, Elma Inez:
................. +CARTER, Desso C.
............. 7   WALTENBAUGH, Leona Rhoda b: 28 Apr 1893 d: 04 Oct 1973 in Rockford, IL Burial: Calvary Cem, Woodstock, IL
................. +MONAHAN, James Thomas b: 25 May 1881 in Quincy, IL d: 12 Oct 1973 in Freeport, IL Burial: Calvary Cem, Woodstock, IL m: 1913 Father: James MONAHAN Mother: Christina SCHMITT
........... 6   PERKINS, Emma b: 21 May 1868 in Taylorville farm Sec 14, Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, IA d: 04 Jan 1885 in Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa Burial: Taylorsville Cem, Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa
........... 6   [12] PERKINS, Andrew Baker b: 23 Jan 1870 in Taylorville farm, Sec 14, Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, IA d: 19 Jan 1948 in Oregon City, OR Burial: Riverview Cemetery, Oregon City, OR Note 3: Middle name? Barker?
............... +GREENLY, Edith Luella m: 10 Apr 1894
............. 7   PERKINS, Archie b: 1895 d: 15 Jan 1959 in Arlington, Iowa
................. +SACKETT, Nettie
................ 8   PERKINS, Jackie
.................... +JOHNSON, Nancy
................ 8   PERKINS, Katherine
.................... +SHERR, Russel
........... *2nd Wife of [12] PERKINS, Andrew Baker:
............... +CHAPMAN, Ethel b: 11 Mar 1899 in Jamestown, ND d: 18 Mar 1956 in Oswego, OR m: 30 Dec 1923
........... 6   PERKINS, Warren Hensley b: 09 Jan 1872 in Taylorville farm, Sec 14, Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, IA d: 25 Dec 1946 in Montrose, CO
............... +BROOKS, Anne Belle b: 20 Oct 1874 in Fairfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 02 Sep 1939 m: 25 Dec 1897 in Jamestown, ND Father: Nelson E. BROOKS Mother: Anne Velnetta HILDRETH
............. 7   PERKINS, Delmar b: Sep 1898
................. +VOGT, Bertha
............. 7   PERKINS, Harold b: 18 Aug 1900
............. 7   PERKINS, Leslie b: 23 Sep 1903
............. 7   PERKINS, Lorena b: 04 Oct 1912
................. +ISARD, Claude E.
........... 6   PERKINS, Clinton Eugene b: 01 Jul 1874 in Taylorville farm, Sec 14, Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, IA d: 03 Dec 1954 in Oregon City, Clackamas.Co.OR
............... +BURNS, Mable Clara b: 13 Dec 1884 in Wadena area, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 08 Apr 1962 in Oregon City, OR m: 01 Jan 1900 in West Union, Fayette Co, Iowa. Father: William Wallace BURNS Mother: Ellen Arminta 'Ella' JENNINGS
............. 7   PERKINS, Bernard C. b: 11 May 1903 in Wadena area, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 18 Dec 1986 in Lake Oswego, Clackamus.Co.OR
................. +ROBERTSON, Pauline m: 28 Jul 1942
............. 7   PERKINS, Leta Leola b: 27 Sep 1904 in Wadena area, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 15 Jul 1988 in Canby, Clackamas.Co.OR
................. +MOLINSKY, Alvin C. m: 12 Oct 1921
............. 7   PERKINS, Velma A. b: 29 May 1906 in Wadena area, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 30 Sep 1996 in Campbellsport, Fond.du.Lac.Co.WI
................. +WILKE, William C. m: 12 Sep 1928
............. 7   PERKINS, Plymon W. b: 21 Jul 1907 in Wadena area, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 01 Mar 1936 in Portland, Multnomah.Co.OR
............. 7   PERKINS, Lenna Laverne 'Lennie' b: 03 May 1909 in Wadena area, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 28 Jan 1971 in Wasco, Sherman.Co.OR
................. +HUGHES, Kenneth m: 20 Feb 1936
............. 7   PERKINS, Russell A. b: 21 Aug 1910 in Wadena area, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 11 May 1988 in Tacoma, Pierce.Co.WA
................. +THERLAND, Ruth L. m: 26 Apr 1938
............. 7   PERKINS, Hazel E. b: 10 Mar 1913 in Arlington, Fairfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 09 Dec 1935 in Eugene, Lane.Co.OR
................. +CHAPMAN, Norman
............. 7   PERKINS, Avis L. b: 15 Jul 1914 in Little Cedar, Mitchell.Co.IA? d: 01 Aug 1974 in Portland, Multnomah.Co.OR
................. +GILLEN, Paul m: 16 Jul 1932
............. 7   PERKINS, Lola Fern b: 25 Dec 1917 in Arlington, Fairfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA
................. +ALLEN, Charles Father: Oliver ALLEN Mother: Emma STALEY
........... 6   PERKINS, Elizabeth Sarah b: 09 Nov 1876 in Taylorville farm, Sec 14, Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, IA d: 14 Jul 1973 in Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa Burial: Taylorsville Cem, Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa Note 1: Called Libbie.
............... +OLDFATHER, August b: 17 Aug 1869 in Brush Creek area, Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, IA. d: 25 Mar 1933 in St. David, Cochise Co, AZ m: 12 Dec 1894 in Wadena, Illyria Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa Father: George Adam Altvater OLDFATHER Mother: Regina Rela Leonhardt LEONHART Note 3: Farmed near Arlington.
............. 7   [13] OLDFATHER, Orville Hensley b: 13 Jul 1900 in Elkader, Clayton Co, Iowa d: 18 Feb 1988 in Fayette, Fayette Co, Iowa
................. +SKINNER, Viola d: 08 Sep 1987
............. *2nd Wife of [13] OLDFATHER, Orville Hensley:
................. +MILES, Ethel Alice b: 14 Dec 1902 in Laporte, Hubbard Co, MN m: 18 Jul 1923 in LaPorte, Hubbard Co,  MN
................ 8   OLDFATHER, Miles Hensley
................ 8   OLDFATHER, Clarice d: 01 Nov 1988
.................... +CLOUGH, Unknown
................ 8   OLDFATHER, Elizabeth
.................... +GLADDEN, Unknown
............. 7   OLDFATHER, Milo A. b: 12 Nov 1903 in Fayette, Fayette Co, IA d: 12 Apr 1990 in West Union, Fayette Co, IA Burial: Taylorsville Cem, Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, IA. Note 7: Farmed in Fayette Co, Iowa.
................. +TURNER, Helen Loraine b: 02 Apr 1908 in Fay.Co.IA d: 10 Jan 2010 in Maplecrest Care, Fayette, IA. Burial: Taylorville Cem, Fairfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA m: 26 Nov 1929 in Methodist Church, Fayette, Iowa Father: Walter Harding TURNER Note 5: Attended Stone School. Note 7: 1926 Graduated from Fayette Iowa High School. Note 8: Received normal teaching certificate from UIU in Fayette. Note 9: Taughe one year in Illyria Twp before marriage. Note 11: Chief cook at Wadena Schools for years. Note 12: Wored in UIU food service in later years.
................ 8   OLDFATHER, Joann b: 24 Aug 1930 Note 5: 2010 Living in Baraboo, WI.
.................... +BURKE, Joe m: 29 May 1959
.................. 9   BURKE, Ann Maria b: 10 Apr 1964
.................. 9   BURKE, Brian Joe b: 11 Jul 1967
................ 8   OLDFATHER, Paul b: 02 Nov 1936 in Fayette, Fayette Co, Iowa Note 5: 2010 Living in Oxford, Iowa.
.................... +PAGGETT, Jeanette m: 07 Mar 1959
................ 8   OLDFATHER, Roger b: 15 Mar 1941 in Fayette, Fayette Co, Iowa Note 5: 2010 Living in Gray,GA.
.................... +BLAIR, Sandra m: 18 Sep 1960
........... 6   PERKINS, Minnie May b: 16 Jun 1878 in Taylorville farm, Sec 14, Fairfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 22 Aug 1954 in Fairfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Burial: Taylorsville Cem, Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa
............... +BRANDENBURG, Amos Warner b: 22 Sep 1873 in Volga area, Sperry.Twp, Clayton.Co.IA d: 06 Nov 1959 in Waterloo, Bk.Hawk.Co.IA Burial: Taylorsville Cem, Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa m: 11 Mar 1896 in Fairfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Father: Frances Marion BRANDENBURG Mother: Enfield MAXWELL
............. 7   BRANDENBURG, Marion Reuben b: 11 Feb 1897 in Clayton.Co.IA d: 14 Dec 1970 in Sumner, Bremer.Co.IA Burial: Rose Hill Cem, Fredericksburg, Iowa
................. +LICKESS, Vera Lucile b: 12 Oct 1898 in Fayette Co, Iowa d: 21 Mar 1988 in Fredericksburg, Iowa Burial: Rose Hill Cem, Fredericksburg, Iowa m: 07 Aug 1918 Father: Percy LICKESS Mother: Delilah UNKNOWN
............. 7   BRANDENBURG, Leta Mae b: 17 Feb 1899 in Corn Hill area, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.iA d: 06 Nov 1966 in Oelwein, Jeff.Twp, Fay.Co.IA
................. +NUS, Glen Friedrich 'Fred' b: 23 Dec 1895 in Arlington area, Fairfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 10 Mar 1963 in Arlington area, Fairfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA m: 30 Jul 1919 in Arlington, Fairfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Father: Louis Carl 'Levi' NUS Mother: Mary Barbara SEMM Note 6: Farmed 1/2mi N of Arlington.IA Main.St. Note 17: 1948 Divorced after 28yrs of marriage, 2023/AlNus. Note 20: Abt. Feb 1935 Glenn Nus limestone quarry & crusher on  farm on Brush.Cr, mile N of Arlington.IA, crushed rock for roads/construction & lime for agriculture. Note 21: Mar 1935 Crusher gas explsion, 400gal fire, temp. building, machinery, equipment destroyed.  Employed part time labor.  New equipment to be installed & operation resumed. Note 22: Apr 1935 Quarry:  Operated by  Fay.Co.; Glen Nus donating rock; Ray Herwig of Wadena manager, George Kraft  of Oelwein in charge of 30-35men working the quarry. Note 23: Oct 1936 For Sale:  Ag.Lime at new low price, Glen Nus. Note 24: Feb 1941 Recovering from operation performed in Waterloo.IA. Note 25: Jun 1944 Heavy rains, Glen Nus ice house dam washed out. Note 26: Operated sawmill in Arlington, also granted seveeral auto related patents, 2023/son Al. Note 27: Sep 1945 Glen Nus 120a farm in Smithfield.Twp, sold to Herbert Porter of west of Oelwein. Note 28: Dec 1946 Glen Nus, serious operation in Rochester.MN. Note 29: Feb 1947 Wayne Halsted to Glan Nus, $2k, W1/2SE & pc adj Sec 21, 102a & 14a adj; and SE/SW/NE Sec 13, T92N, R7W, Fairifeld.Twp.
................ 8   NUS, Harold Leroy b: 15 Jul 1920 in Arlington area, Fairfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 21 May 1982 in Harris.Co.TX Note 12: Sep 1942 Recieved Army Air Corps wings at Moorfield, Mission.TX.
................ 8   NUS, Melvin Amos b: 16 Dec 1924 in Arlington area, Fairfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 05 Dec 1970 in Oelwein, Jeff.Twp, Fay.Co.IA
.................... +HAUGHT, Imogene b: 09 Aug 1927 in Elkport area, Clayton.Co.IA d: 30 Aug 2016 in Oelwein, Jeff.Twp, Fay.Co.IA
.................. 9   NUS, Three Dau
.................. 9   NUS, One Son
................ 8   NUS, Leon Louis b: 10 May 1926 in Arlington area, Fairfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 22 Jun 1998 in Fairbank, Buchanan.Co.IA
.................... +GREEN, Darlene b: 1930 in Iowa d: 2005 in Iowa Father: Benjamin 'Ben' GREEN
................ 8   NUS, Shirley b: 12 Jul 1930 in Arlington area, Fairfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA
.................... +STEWARD, Earl V. m: Sep 1949 in Mankato.MN Father: Earl STEWARD
................ 8   NUS, Lyle Bernard b: 12 Jun 1931 in Arlington area, Fairfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 09 Feb 2016 in West Union, Union.Twp, Fay.Co.IA
................ 8   NUS, Alvin Eugene 'Al' b: Abt. 1935 in Arlington area, Fairfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA
.................... +SCHMIDT, Dorothy Ann m: 18 Dec 1960 in Luth.Ch, Arlington, Fairifeld.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Father: Alfred C. SCHMIDT
............. 7   BRANDENBURG, Lyle b: 17 Feb 1899 in Corn Hill area, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.iA
........... 6   PERKINS, William b: 12 Jan 1880 in Albany farm, Sec 14, Westield Twp, Fayette Co, IA d: 12 Jan 1880 in Albany farm, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, IA Burial: Taylorsville Cem, Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa
........... 6   PERKINS, Cordelia Evelyn b: 23 Mar 1881 in Albany farm, Sec 14, Westeld Twp, Fayette Co, IA d: 12 Oct 1970 in Arlington area, Fairifield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Burial: Taylorsville Cem, Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa
............... +SEEDORFF, Noble Heinrich Wilhelm b: 10 Oct 1883 in Aurora area, Fayette Co, Iowa d: 17 Dec 1970 in Arlington area, Fairifield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Burial: Taylorsville Cem, Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa m: 10 Jun 1904 in Oelwein, Jefferson Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa. Father: John Johann Heinrich Theodas SEEDORFF Mother: Marie Sophia Dorothea Dora KAIL
............. 7   SEEDORFF, Sara Dora b: 09 Dec 1904 in Arlington area,  Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, IA
............. 7   SEEDORFF, Hazel Bell b: 04 Jun 1906 in Arlington area, Fairifield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 08 Jul 1983 in Grundy Center, Grundy Co, Iowa
................. +OLDFATHER, Vane Henry b: 15 Mar 1903 in Arlington area, Fairifield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 07 Feb 1975 in Arlington area, Fairifield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA m: 31 Aug 1927 in Little Brown Church, Nashua, IA. Father: Joseph OLDFATHER Mother: Clara Belle Carrie YOUNKMAN
........... 6   PERKINS, Ida b: 01 Feb 1883 in Albany farmSec 14, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, IA d: 29 May 1883 in Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa Burial: Taylorsville Cem, Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa
........... 6   PERKINS, Sarah Grace b: 22 Aug 1884 in Albany farm, Sec 14, Westeld Twp, Fayette Co, IA d: 19 Sep 1884 in Albany farm, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, IA
........ 5   HENSLEY, Cordelia Sarah b: 01 Nov 1852 in Sec 24, 1mi SE of Lima, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa d: 15 Nov 1926 in Bro. Reuben's farm, N edge of Albany,  Sec 14, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, IA Burial: Lima Cemetery, sec 3, Sec 13, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa Note 1: Called Adella. Note 7: 1878 Living near Volga River, 3mi SW of Fayette. Note 12: Farmed in Sec 35, Center Twp, P.O. Fayette. Note 15: 1925 Census;  Wadena area, Fay.Co.IA. Note 19: 1926 Died, farm home of brother Reuben, N. edge of Albany.IA.
............ +HULBERT, Albert E. b: 12 May 1850 in Fulton P.O., Granby.Twp, Oswego.Co.NY d: 23 Oct 1926 in Lima area, Sec 13, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa Burial: Lima Cemetery, Sec 13, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa m: 22 Feb 1873 in Lima, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa Father: Amos Dary HULBERT Mother: Malvina CLARK Note 5: Bet. 1857 - 1858 NY to Smithfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA with parents; grew up on sec 35 farm , Center.Twp. Note 11: 1878 Farmer, Sec 35, Center Twp, P.O. Fayette, IA. Note 14: Bef. 1890 Farmed in Center & Harlan.Twp's, Fay.Co.IA. Note 15: 1890 Livery with Twelvetree's, Oelwein, Fay.Co.IA. Note 19: Livery in CA for a few years. Note 20: Bet. 1890 - 1922 Lived in Oelwein, Fay.Co.IA Note 22: Bet. 1922 - 1924 Bought home, Wadena, to retire, sickness, both went to Reuben Hensley's in Albany. Note 26: United Brethan Church member.
........... 6   HULBERT, Plimmon L. b: 16 May 1874 in Lima area, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 23 May 1881 in Lima area, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Burial: Lima Cem, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, IA
........... 6   HULBERT, Loretta A. b: 19 Feb 1876 in Lima area, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 01 Mar 1878 in Lima area, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Burial: Lima Cem, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, IA
........... 6   HULBERT, Lorena I. b: Abt. 1876 in Lima area, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: Abt. 05 May 1893 in Oelwein, Jeff.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Burial: May 1893 Lima Cem (unmarked), Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA
........ 5   [14] HENSLEY, Caroline Amanda b: 19 Jul 1854 in Sec 24, 1mi SE of Lima,  Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa d: 12 May 1911 in Eureka, Lincoln Co, MT Burial: Eureka Cem, Lincoln Co, MT Note 3: Called Carrie. Note 5: Divorced Adams.
............ +BORGOYNE, Charles E.
........ *2nd Husband of [14] HENSLEY, Caroline Amanda:
............ +ADAMS, Joseph Lawrence Luewellyn b: 1853 in Wisc d: 1902 in Neihart, MT Burial: Neihart Cem, MT m: 04 Jul 1873 in Brush Creek (Arlington), Fairfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa.
........... 6   ADAMS, Lottie Loretta b: 12 Mar 1875 in Fayette, Fay.Co.IA d: 12 May 1937 in Eureka, Lincoln.Co.MT
............... +PELTIER, Joseph b: Mar 1868 in Goletta, Canada d: 05 May 1952 in Eureka, Lincoln.Co.MT m: 14 Dec 1896 in Eureka, Lincoln.Co.MT Father: Antonie PELTIER Mother: Theotiste POITRAS
............. 7   PELTIER, Joseph Alfred b: 20 Dec 1897 in Eureka, Lincoln.Co.MT d: 06 Aug 1976 in Eureka, Lincoln.Co.MT
................. +MCCLURE, Jaunita Pauline b: 11 Dec 1897 in Eureka, Lincoln.Co.MT d: Feb 1975 in Spokane, Spokane.Co.WA
........... 6   ADAMS, Joseph Lawrence b: 25 Jan 1877 in Des Moines, Polk.Co.IA d: 27 Jan 1948 in Hope, Bonner.Co.ID Burial: Neihart Cem, MT.
........ 5   HENSLEY, James b: Bet. 1856 - 1857 in Farm north of Albany, Sec 14, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa
..... 4   HENSLEY, Daniel b: 1804 in Pike Co, KY (possible child) d: Bef. 1850 in Lawrence, Marion.Co.IN
..... 4   [15] HENSLEY, Aaron Benjamin b: 1806 in Logan Co, VA/WV d: 1870 in Mnnora, Calhoun.Co.WV Note 5: 1830 Census, Clark Co, Illinois. Note 8: 1840 Census, Kanawha Co, WV.
......... +KING, Nancy b: 1808 in VA d: Abt. 1850 in Kanawha Co, VA m: 23 Nov 1828 in Edgar County, Illinois
........ 5   HENSLEY, Aaron Henry b: in Edgar Co, IL (suspected offspring)
............ +MORGAN, Mary m: 07 Apr 1874
........ 5   HENSLEY, Elizabeth Jane b: 1829 in Edgar Co, IL d: Abt. 1900 in Calhoun Co, WV
............ +JARVIS, Weeden
........ 5   HENSLEY, Sarah b: 1832 in Edgar Co, IL
............ +JARVIS, Alfred m: Abt. 1850
........ 5   HENSLEY, James Wiiliam b: 1833 in Edgar Co, IL d: 1901
............ +FUGATE, Asenthe May
........ 5   HENSLEY, Samuel Benjamin b: 1839 in Edgar Co, IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, John W. 'Job' b: 1837 in VA or IL
..... *2nd Wife of [15] HENSLEY, Aaron Benjamin:
......... +ARNOLD, Mary b: 06 Aug 1810 in Harrison.Co.WV d: 12 Aug 1899 in Mnnora, Calhoun.Co.WV m: 11 Aug 1857 in Calhoun.Co.WV Father: John ARNOLD Mother: Jemima JACKSON
..... 4   [17] HENSLEY, Christopher b: 1807 in Clark Co, KY or Coles Co, IL d: 24 Oct 1868 in Unionville area farm, Putnam Co, MO Note 3: 1830 Census, Edgar Co, IL, Chrisley Hencely, wife, dau. Note 5: 06 May 1837 Bought, Edgar Co, IL, 40a, s10T12R12, Symmes Twp, Edgar Co, IL Note 7: Oct 1846 Susan (Penrod) divorced, charged adultery with Catherine Tompkins. Note 8: Dec 1850 Census: Edgar.Co.IL.  Hensley:  Christopher43 farming $1k/400, 2nd wf Catharine34, James15, Wm10, Robert8, Clark7, Christopher4, Nancy2, Arnold1, Catharine0. Note 9: Abt. 1855 To  Unionville area, Putnam Co, MO Note 10: Bet. 1855 - 1868 Farming, Unionville area, Putnam Co, MO. Note 22: 1860 Census:  UnionvillePO, Union.Twp, Putnam.Co.MO.  Hensly:  Christopher50 faming, Erminda30, Metilda10 nee Koon dua of Lewis, Emily9, Louisa7, Huldha6, Luella1.
......... +PENROD, Susannah b: Abt. 1810 in Ohio d: Bef. 1848 in Edgar.Co.IL? m: 05 Nov 1828 in Clark Co, IL Note 2: 1845 In Edgar Co, Illinois
........ 5   HENSLEY, Mary b: 29 Nov 1829 in Paris, Edgar Co, IL d: 14 Jul 1914 in Webb City, Putnam Co, MO Burial: Unionville, MO Note 3: Apr 1864 Moved to Wayne Co, IA, after husb killed in Civil War.
............ +MORRIS, Mathew b: 1823 in Ohio d: 19 Apr 1862 in Civil war, Paducah KY. Burial: Paducah, KY, civil war. m: 14 Sep 1845 in Paris, Edgar Co, Illinois Father: Levi MORRIS Mother: Jemian LONG
........... 6   MORRIS, Dennis b: 1847
........... 6   MORRIS, Jerrimon b: 1849
........... 6   [23] MORRIS, Ellen Elizabeth b: 30 Oct 1852 in IL d: 29 Apr 1927
............... +[24] TICE, Soloman William b: 1849 m: 26 Dec 1872 in Wilson Co, KS
........... 6   MORRIS, Mary A. C. b: 1855
........... 6   MORRIS, Debby Jane b: 1858
........... 6   MORRIS, Tabitha Angelinia b: 1860
........... 6   MORRIS, Christopher C. b: 1843
........ 5   HENSLEY, Rosanna b: 29 Nov 1829 in Edgar.Co.IL d: 01 Aug 1914 in Uniionville, Putnam Co, MO Burial: Unionville, Putnam Co, MO
............ +BRADSHAW, Geroge W. b: Abt. 1825 in Cabell? Co, VA m: 03 May 1847 in Edgar Co, IL
........... 6   BRADSHAW, Cyrus b: Abt. 1854 in Edgar Co, IL
........... 6   BRADSHAW, Rebecca b: Abt. 1856 in Putnam Co, MO
........... 6   BRADSHAW, Ira b: Abt. 1861 in Putnam Co, MO
........... 6   BRADSHAW, Edward b: Abt. 1865 in Putnam Co, MO
........... 6   BRADSHAW, Sylvia b: Abt. 1865 in Putnam Co, MO
........ 5   HENSLEY, Rebecca b: 19 May 1832 in Clark.Co.IL? d: 23 Sep 1898 in Putnam.Co.MO
............ +YOUNT, James R. m: 1848
........ 5   HENSLEY, James b: Abt. 1835 in Clark.Co.IL?
........ 5   HENSLEY, Isaac b: 1838 in Clark.Co.IL? Note 1: 1860 Census, farming, Unionville area, Union Twp, Putnam Co, MO, wfie Mary.
............ +GUFFEY, Mary b: 21 Oct 1838 in Wayne, KY d: 18 Oct 1886 in Uniionville area, Putnam Co, MO m: 17 Nov 1859 in Joseph Guffey home, Putnam Co, MO Father: Joseph GUFFEY Mother: Malinda CRABTREE
........... 6   HENSLEY, Susan b: Abt. 1860 in Putman Co, Missouri d: 04 Sep 1895
............... +SMITH, Marion S. m: in Chariton, Missouri Father: Robert SMITH Mother: Jane BELSHER
............. 7   SMITH, Odella Alice
............. 7   SMITH, Eva Mary
............. 7   SMITH, John Riley
............. 7   SMITH, Mary Caroline b: 11 Aug 1883 in Putnam County, Missiouri d: 22 Aug 1962 in Near Triplett, Missiouri Note 1: Called 'Carrie'
................. +CARSON, Charles William m: 02 Jun 1901 in Chariton County, Missouri
............. 7   SMITH, Joseph Andrew Franklin
............. 7   SMITH, Alexander
........... 6   HENSLEY, Mary b: 1862 in Putman Co, Missouri
........... 6   HENSLEY, Isaac Andrew b: 23 Apr 1870 in Putman Co, Missouri d: 31 Jul 1938
............... +HALL, Mary m: 1891 in Putnam Co, MO
............. 7   HENSLEY, Elsie
............. 7   HENSLEY, Marie
................. +FOWLER, Unknown m: in Possible husband.
............. 7   HENSLEY, Homer
........ 5   HENSLEY, Clark b: Abt. 1843 in Edgar.Co.IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, Christopher b: Abt. 1846 in Edgar.Co.IL Note 3: Child of Catherine Tompkins?
........ 5   [16] HENSLEY, Robert Lee b: 14 May 1842 in Edgar.Co.IL d: 13 Jun 1913 in Mound City, Holt.Co.MO Burial: Mt. Hope Cem,Mound City, Holt Co, MO
............ +GANNON, Mary Catharine b: 30 May 1842 in Marshall, Clark Co, IL m: 27 Mar 1864 in Marshall, Clark Co, IL
........... 6   HENSLEY, Isaac N. b: 24 Jul 1865 in Marshall, Clark Co, IL
............... +POST, Hattie M. m: 24 Jul 1888
........... 6   HENSLEY, James C. Hensley b: 17 Mar 1867 in Marshall, Clark Co, IL
........... 6   HENSLEY, Hannah M. b: 23 Apr 1869 in Marshall, Clark Co, IL d: 11 Jul 1869
........ *2nd Wife of [16] HENSLEY, Robert Lee:
............ +BURK, Nancy Ann Agnes b: 12 May 1849 in Indiana d: 06 May 1913 in Mound City, Holt Co, Missouri Burial: Mt. Hope Cem, Mount City,  Holt Co, MO m: 23 May 1871 in Taylor Co, IA Father: Moses Walker BURK Mother: Sarah MILLER
........... 6   HENSLEY, William b: 16 Aug 1874 in Bedford, Taylor Co, IA d: 28 May 1947 in Spencer, Clark Co, Idaho
............... +MATHEWS, Frances Hulda m: 14 Mar 1906
........... 6   HENSLEY, Lucinda b: 23 Jan 1877 in Bedford, Taylor Co, IA d: 13 Aug 1938
............... +GUTHRIE, Albert Nelson m: 28 Sep 1892
........... 6   HENSLEY, Rosanna C. b: 08 Mar 1879 in Bedford, Taylor Co, IA d: 24 Jun 1958
............... +TITUS, Albert S. m: 02 May 1898
........... 6   HENSLEY, Murrel b: 04 Sep 1881 in Bigelow, Holt co, MO d: 06 Jul 1965
............... +TACKER, Ollie C. m: 03 Sep 1938
........... 6   HENSLEY, Della Mae b: 06 Jun 1884 in Bigelow, Holt co, MO d: 10 Feb 1970
............... +LOVELACY, William Jesse m: 30 Jun 1901
........... 6   HENSLEY, Mary b: 04 Apr 1886 in Bigelow, Holt co, MO d: 14 Jun 1980
............... +MCCOY, Beroge Simeon m: 17 Feb 1904
........... 6   HENSLEY, Arley L. b: 03 Sep 1888 in Bigelow, Holt co, MO
............... +CASE, Charles Adam m: 25 Apr 1904
..... *2nd Wife of [17] HENSLEY, Christopher:
......... +TOMPKINS, Catherine b: 1816 in Seneca, New York m: Abt. 1848 in Edgar Co, IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, Nancy b: Abt. 1848 in Edgar Co, IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, Arnold b: 1849 in Edgar Co, IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, Catherine b: Abt. 1850 in Edgar Co, IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, Metilda b: Abt. 1850 in Springfield area, Sangamon Co, IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, Emily b: 1851 in Springfield area,Sangamon Co, IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, Louisa Almira b: 11 Jan 1853 in Mooresville, Livingston Co, MO
............ +MITCHELL, Robert F. m: 17 Feb 1870 in Coles Co, IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, Hulda Ann b: 10 Jul 1854 in Springfield area, Sangamon Co,  IL
............ +STOTHARD, Young b: 24 Sep 1847 in Belton, England m: 17 Mar 1876
........... 6   STOTHARD, Roseanna Elizabeth b: 13 Dec 1876 in Putnam Co, MO
........... 6   STOTHARD, John Edgar b: 01 Mar 1878 in Putnam Co, MO
........... 6   STOTHARD, Sarah b: 27 Jun 1889 in Indianola, Red Willow Co, NE
..... *3rd Wife of [17] HENSLEY, Christopher:
......... +UNKNOWN, Amanda Arminda b: Nov 1830 in Ohio d: Abt. 1910 in MO? m: 04 Feb 1858 in Putnam Co, MO Note 3: Surname? Coon? Note 8: Oct 1850 Census:  Lee.Co.IA.  Koon: Lewis20IL laborer, Arminda22OH, MatildaK5mIA. Note 12: 1870 Census:  UnionvillePO, Richaland.Twp, Putnam.Co.MO.  Hensley:  Eminda41 $600/150 wid, Leila11, Isabel9. Note 22: 1900 Census: Sarcoxie.Twp, Jasper.Co.MO; Arminda Hensley68 wid, with dua Leila (James) Vaughan47 family.
........ 5   HENSLEY, Luella b: Oct 1859 in Putman Co, Missouri
............ +VAUGHAN, James b: Mar 1853 in MI
........... 6   VAUGHAN, Anna P. b: Jan 1891 in TX
........... 6   VAUGHAN, Hattie b: Mar 1894 in MO
........... 6   VAUGHAN, Ethel b: Apr 1897 in MO
........ 5   HENSLEY, Mary Isabel b: 1861 in Putman Co, Missouri Note 3: Eight children.
............ +SHUMAKER, Christina Jay b: May 1853 in Ohio d: 1908 in Wray.Co.CO m: 1879 in Lincoln, NE
........... 6   SHUMAKER, Bertha Rue b: 10 Jul 1889 in Lincoln.NE
........... 6   SHUMAKER, Ora Edgar b: Jan 1880 in Lincoln.NE
........... 6   SHUMAKER, Edith b: Jan 1895 in Armel.Co.CO
........... 6   SHUMAKER, Velma F. Steacy b: Sep 1897 in Armel.Co.CO
........... 6   SHUMAKER, Zepha b: 04 Sep 1901 in Armel.Co.CO
..... 4   HENSLEY, Rebecca b: Abt. 1808 in Possible child.
......... +BOND, John m: 03 Mar 1822 in Pike Co, KY
..... 4   HENSLEY, Sarah b: 18 Nov 1810 in Floyd.Co.KY, possible child. d: 06 Feb 1877 in Cumberland, Marion.Co.IN
......... +HANELY, Jospeh m: 14 Oct 1824 in Coles Co, IL
..... 4   HENSLEY, Jacob Goodman b: 18 Oct 1812 in KY or Coles.Co.IL or Logan.Co.VA/WV d: 1846 in Waynesboro, Wayne.Co or Pulaski .Co. MO Burial: Parker Memorial, near Grapevine, TX Note 3: Middle name? Goodman? Note 7: 1840 Census, farming, Coles Co, IL, 1m 0-5, 1m 20-30, 1f 0to5, 1f 20to30. Note 8: 1842 Sold land, Edgar, Coles Co, ILL Note 10: 10 Mar 1843 Land patent in Coles Co, IL.
......... +DRISKILL, Nancy Magalene b: 11 May 1815 in Coles Co, IL d: 01 Oct 1881 in Richland area, Pulaski Co, MO Burial: Rollins Cem, Pulaski Co, MO m: 25 Feb 1836 in Coles Co, Illinois Father: Silas DRISKILL Mother: Christina EATON Note 3: Middle analogs; Mary, Magalene. Note 5: Married by John M. Easting,JP
........ 5   [18] HENSLEY, James Harrison b: 15 Jan 1837 in Coles Co, IL d: 09 Jul 1914 in Grapevine, Tarrant Co, TX
............ +COOK, Virginia Allen b: 08 Jan 1837 d: 11 Jul 1878 in TX Burial: Parker Cem, Grapevine, Tarrant Co, TX
........ *2nd Wife of [18] HENSLEY, James Harrison:
............ +HOWARD, Rebecca Lucas Father: James HOWARD Mother: Elizabeth UNKNOWN
........ *3rd Wife of [18] HENSLEY, James Harrison:
............ +KIRTLEY, Aggendeccar b: 08 Jan 1837 in KY d: 11 Jul 1878 in Grapevine, Tarrant Co, TX Burial: Parker Cem, Grapevine, Tarrant Co, TX m: 18 Sep 1856 in Payne or Ray Co, MO Father: John Honorias KIRTLEY Mother: Priscilla CALMES
........... 6   HENSLEY, John Henry b: 21 Jul 1857 in KS d: 07 Sep 1884 in Tarrant Co, TX
............... +ALLEN, Sarah E.
........... 6   HENSLEY, Nancy Pricilla b: 21 Dec 1859 in TX d: 1889 in Cook Co, TX
............... +STAFFORD, Thomas Curry
........... 6   [19] HENSLEY, Julia Aggendeccar b: 19 Apr 1862 in TX d: 17 Nov 1906 in Curry Co, NM
............... +DEAIGH, Milton
........... *2nd Husband of [19] HENSLEY, Julia Aggendeccar:
............... +NASH, John Adam
........... 6   HENSLEY, Mary Cassandra b: 15 Sep 1864 in TX
........... 6   HENSLEY, Amelia Catherine b: 13 Oct 1866 in TX d: 1889 in OK
........... 6   HENSLEY, Ida Susanna b: 01 Nov 1868 in TX d: in Henderson, Rusk Co, TX
........... 6   HENSLEY, Ada Frances b: 31 Oct 1870 in Tarrant Co, TX d: in Tarrant Co, TX
........... 6   HENSLEY, Emma Goodman b: 20 May 1873 in Tarrant Co, TX d: 1905 in Purcell, OK
........... 6   HENSLEY, Ella Jane b: 12 Oct 1876 in Tarrant Co, TX d: in Calif.
........ 5   [20] HENSLEY, Mary Jane b: 1839 in Coles Co, IL d: 1889 in Tarrant Co, Texas
............ +HOWARD, Asa
........ *2nd Husband of [20] HENSLEY, Mary Jane:
............ +BRYANT, Unknown
........ 5   [21] HENSLEY, Catherine b: 25 Dec 1841 in Charleston Twp,  Coles Co, IL d: Jan 1906 in Pulaski Co, MO or Coles Co, IL Burial: Berean Cem, Pulaski Co, MO Note 3: Nine children.
............ +MILLER, C. C.
........ *2nd Husband of [21] HENSLEY, Catherine:
............ +HILLHOUSE, Joseph Franklin b: 04 Oct 1832 in Stotland area, Camden Co, MO d: 19 Oct 1895 in Pulaski co, MO Burial: Berean Cem, Pulaski Co, MO m: 24 Feb 1856 in Pulaski Co, MO Father: Jonah HILLHOUSE
........... 6   HILLHOUSE, Margaret b: 1857 in Pulaski Co, MO
........... 6   HILLHOUSE, William Harrison b: 1861 in Pulaski Co, MO d: 1861 in Pulaski Co, MO
........... 6   HILLHOUSE, Mary Elizabeth b: 21 Sep 1863 in Pulaski Co, MO
........... 6   HILLHOUSE, Nancy Ellen b: 31 Mar 1866 in Pulaski Co, MO
........... 6   HILLHOUSE, Matilda Paradine b: 31 Jul 1868 in Pulaski Co, MO
........... 6   HILLHOUSE, Martha b: 1876 in Pulaski Co, MO
........... 6   HILLHOUSE, Rosa Evalina b: 02 Dec 1879 in Pulaski Co, MO
........... 6   HILLHOUSE, Robert b: 09 Feb 1892 in Pulaski Co, MO
........ 5   HENSLEY, William Harrison b: 1843 in Coles Co, IL d: 28 Apr 1879 in Tarrant Co, Texas Burial: Parker Cem, Grapevine, Tarrant Co, TX Note 3: Six children, raised four.
............ +HENDRICKS, Mary Ann Father: John Robert HENDRICKS Mother: Mary Elizabeth HARRISON
........... 6   HENSLEY, Lillie b: 06 Aug 1869 in IL
........... 6   HENSLEY, Elvin b: 1872 in Pulaski Co, MO
........... 6   HENSLEY, Maude Jane b: 06 Apr 1874 d: 21 Sep 1938 in MO
........... 6   HENSLEY, John Harrison
..... 4   HENSLEY, William James b: 16 Nov 1813 in Floyd.Co.KY d: 08 Feb 1878 in Tuscolaum, Douglas Co, IL Burial: 10 Feb 1878 Camargo, Douglas Co, IL Note 5: 1850 Census: farming, Martinsville, Clark.Co.IL.
......... +JOHNSON, Mary b: 1817 in IN d: 30 Aug 1879 in Tuscolaum, Douglas Co, IL Burial: Tuscolaum, Douglas Co, IL m: 02 May 1838 in Clark Co, IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, Owen b: 1840 in Martinsville area, Clark Co, IL d: 06 Jun 1879
............ +DEVERS, Matilda m: 19 Jan 1861
........ 5   HENSLEY, Franklin b: 1841 in Martinsville area, Clark Co, IL d: 22 Dec 1862 in Civil War?, Nashville, Davidson Co, TN
........ 5   HENSLEY, Nancy b: 1843 in Martinsville area, Clark Co, IL
............ +ARMSTRONG, James m: 20 Jul 1861
........ 5   HENSLEY, Abel b: 07 Nov 1847 in Martinsville area, Clark Co, IL d: 03 Nov 1917 in Pomona, Franklin Co, KS
............ +SPRAGNE, Matilda Jane b: Sep 1851 d: 26 Jan 1906 in Pomona, Franklin Co, KS m: 20 Nov 1870
........... 6   HENSLEY, Rose b: 06 Jun 1871 in Douglas Co, IL d: 15 Sep 1937 in Wichita, KS
........... 6   HENSLEY, Frank James b: 06 Nov 1873 in Douglas Co, IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, Catharine b: 1850 in Martinsville area, Clark Co, IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, John b: 1852 in Martinsville area, Clark Co, IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, Sirus b: 1856 in Martinsville area, Clark Co, IL
..... 4   HENSLEY, Katharine b: 27 Dec 1820 in Clark.Co.KY d: 26 Apr 1881 in Charleston, Coles Co, IL Burial: Adkins (Woodson) Cem, sec 23, Charleston Twp, Coles Co, IL. Note 3: Birth? 1820 or 1823?, KY, IN or IL?
......... +LEMONS, Jackson b: 15 Jan 1815 in NC d: 06 Mar 1881 in Charleston, Coles Co, IL Burial: Adkins (Woodson) Cem, sec 23, Charleston Twp, Coles Co, IL. m: 07 Sep 1837 in Coles Co, IL Father: William LEMONS Mother: Rebecca UNKNOWN Note 3: Surname analogs; Lemon, Lemons, Lemmons. Note 5: Farmed in Charleston Twp, Coles Co, IL.
........ 5   LEMONS, Rebecca b: 1837 in Charleston Twp, Coles Co, IL
........ 5   LEMONS, Elisa Ellen b: 1842 in Charleston Twp, Coles Co, IL
............ +SWISHER, Lockard
........... 6   SWISHER, Mary C. b: 1863 in Charleston Twp, Coles Co, IL d: 1943 Burial: Mt. Tabor Cem, Pleasant Grove Twp, Coles Co, IL.
............... +BIDLE, Albert Frederick m: 26 Feb 1880
........ 5   LEMONS, Andrew b: 1846 in Charleston Twp, Coles Co, IL
........ 5   LEMONS, Sarah A. b: 1849 in Charleston Twp, Coles Co, IL
..... 4   HENSLEY, Martha E. b: 1822 in Clark.Co.KY d: Bef. 1870 in Lynn Co, IA Note 3: Given analogs; Martha, Martina. Note 7: 1850 Census; Delaware Co, IA. Note 8: 1870 Census; Lynn Co, IA.
......... +BELL, John A. b: Abt. 1815 in OH or NY m: 25 May 1837 in Coles Co, IL
........ 5   BELL, John A. b: Abt. 1845 in Delaware Co?, IA
........ 5   BELL, Rebecca J. b: Abt. 1849 in Delaware Co?, IA d: 1907 in Iowa Burial: Oakhill Cem, Central City, IA
............ +PHYFE, Lewis A. m: 09 Nov 1870 in Iowa
........ 5   BELL, Nancy E. b: Abt. 1853 in Iowa
........ 5   BELL, Rosa A. b: Abt. 1855 in Iowa
........ 5   BELL, Jackson b: Abt. 1857 in Iowa
........ 5   BELL, Catherine b: Abt. 1861 in Iowa
... *2nd Wife of [22] HENSLEY, William James:
....... +LEWIS, Elizabeth Katherine b: Abt. 1803 in Pike Co, KY Burial: 1896 ?Lauffman Cem, Symmes Twp, Edgar Co, IL? m: 19 Sep 1824 in Edgar Co, IL Note 12: 1850 Census; Clark Co, IL Note 16: 1860 Census:  ParisPO, Simms.Twp, Edgar.Co.IL. Drake: Eliz56 farming s/m of Wm Hensley, Jospeh25, Angleine20, Jonathan17, Lewis13.  Hensley: Wm31 farmhand, Harriet34, MaryE6, JospehC3, SarahC1. Note 19: 1885 Census; Clinton Twp, Lynn Co, IA.
..... 4   HENSLEY, Mary b: 1825 in Edgar or Clark Co, IL d: 01 Jan 1895 in IA or MO Burial: Webb City, MO Note 3: Eight children.
......... +MORRIS, Matthew b: Abt. 1823 in OH d: 19 Apr 1862 in Civil War, Battle of Shiloh. Burial: Puduaka, KY m: 14 Sep 1845 in Edgar Co, IL
........ 5   [23] MORRIS, Ellen Elizabeth b: 30 Oct 1852 in IL d: 29 Apr 1927
............ +[24] TICE, Soloman William b: 1849 m: 26 Dec 1872 in Wilson Co, KS
..... 4   HENSLEY, William b: 1828 in Edgar or Clark Co, IL Note 5: 1860 Census:  ParisPO, Simms.Twp, Edgar.Co.IL. Drake: Eliz56 farming s/m of Wm Hensley, Jospeh25, Angleine20, Jonathan17, Lewis13.  Hensley: Wm31 farmhand, Harriet34, MaryE6, JospehC3, SarahC1.
......... +UNKNOWN, Harriett b: 1826 in TN
........ 5   HENSLEY, Mary E. b: 1854 in MO
........ 5   HENSLEY, Joseph C. b: 1857 in IN
........ 5   HENSLEY, Sarah C. b: 1859 in IL
..... 4   HENSLEY, Robert b: 11 Mar 1831 in Clark Co, IL d: 30 Jul 1909 in Clark Co, IL Burial: Auburn Cem, Clark Co, IL Note 5: 1860 Census; farming, Auburn Twp, Clark Co, IL.
......... +FAULBUSH, Lurana b: 27 Sep 1835 in Hanover, Germany d: 28 Sep 1918 in Clark Co, IL m: 08 Oct 1855
........ 5   HENSLEY, William Andrew b: 12 Jan 1857 in Clark Co, IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, James Henry b: Oct 1858 in Clark Co, IL
............ +MCHENRY, Anna b: 1859 d: 1895 m: 05 Dec 1886 in Clark Co, IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, Mary E. b: 1861 in Clark Co, IL
............ +MAUK, James A.
........ 5   HENSLEY, Owen b: 27 Dec 1862 in Clark Co, IL d: 24 Aug 1864 in Clark Co, IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, John W. b: 1864 in Clark Co, IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, Walter b: 09 Aug 1864 in Clark Co, IL d: 22 Aug 1865 in Clark Co, IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, Reuben L. b: May 1866 in Clark Co, IL
............ +MURPHY, Euphena Jane b: Jul 1872 in IL m: 10 Mar 1889 in Clark Co, IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, Charles Robert b: Mar 1870 in Clark Co, IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, Martha b: 07 Dec 1871 in Clark Co, IL d: 16 Aug 1875 in Clark Co, IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, Viola b: 1873 in Clark Co, IL
............ +PITTENGER, John b: in Union Twp, Carroll Co, Ohio m: 06 Mar 1895 in Clark Co, IL
........ 5   HENSLEY, Milands A. b: 19 Sep 1876 in Clark Co, IL d: 04 Dec 1908 in Clark Co, IL
... 3   HENSLEY, Mary Polly b: 1787 in Logan Co, KY d: 1870 in Logan Co, KY
....... +DAVIS, William b: 1790 in VA d: 1827 Note 1: 11 children Note 2: Farmed, Harrison Co., Ohio
... 3   [25] HENSLEY, Stephen b: 1790 in Cabell Co, WV
....... +WALLS, Rebecca
... *2nd Wife of [25] HENSLEY, Stephen:
....... +FARLEY, Nancy Mary b: 1793 in Giles Co, VA d: 1850 in Raleigh, WV m: 19 Apr 1814 in Cabell Co, VA
... 3   [26] HENSLEY, Elijah b: 1793 in Hawkins Co, TN
....... +GIDDENS, Mary Polly b: 1800 in Wilkes Co, NC d: 1831 m: 25 Oct 1818 in Floyd Co, KY
... *2nd Wife of [26] HENSLEY, Elijah:
....... +ADAMS, Mahala b: 1816 in VA d: 1869 in Logan Co, KY m: 1835 in Logan Co, KY
... *3rd Wife of [26] HENSLEY, Elijah:
....... +MACMILLAN, Mary Phillips b: 1834 in VA m: 08 Aug 1869 in Pike Co, KY
... *4th Wife of [26] HENSLEY, Elijah:
....... +COX, Elizabeth b: 1804 in KY m: 13 Mar 1932
... 3   HENSLEY, Robert b: 1793 in VA
....... +FARLEY, Judy b: 1780 in Montgomery Co, VA m: 16 Dec 1816 in Floyd Co, KY
... 3   HENSLEY, John Isaac b: 1795 in Lawrence Co, KY d: Abt. 1840
....... +PERKINS, Rebecca Crum b: 1801 in Spotsylvania Co, VA d: 1850 in Lawrence Co, KY m: 11 Dec 1817 in Floyd Co, KY
..... 4   HENSLEY, John Wesley b: 11 Sep 1828 in Lawrence Co, KY
......... +RATCLIFF, Sarah b: Mar 1835 in KY m: 08 Apr 1852 in Lawrence Co, KY
........ 5   HENSLEY, James F. b: 1851 in KY
........ 5   HENSLEY, John D. b: 1852 in KY
........ 5   HENSLEY, Mary J. b: 02 May 1853 in KY
........ 5   HENSLEY, Matilda b: 1855 in Letcher Co, KY
........ 5   HENSLEY, Isaac W. b: Dec 1857
........ 5   HENSLEY, Nancy b: 1859
........ 5   HENSLEY, Martin V. b: 1863
........ 5   HENSLEY, Rebecca b: Oct 1864
..... 4   HENSLEY, Samuel D. b: in KY
..... 4   HENSLEY, Delilah b: 21 Oct 1822 in Floyd Co, KY
..... 4   HENSLEY, Mary Elizabeth b: 1823 in KY
..... 4   HENSLEY, Stephen Nathan b: 1826 in KY
..... 4   HENSLEY, William M. b: 1827 in Lawrence Co, KY
..... 4   HENSLEY, Thomas b: 1832 in Lawrence Co, KY
......... +PERKINS, Susan b: 1840
..... 4   HENSLEY, Isom H. b: 1833 in Lawrence Co, KY
..... 4   HENSLEY, Levica b: 1839 in Lawrence Co, KY
... 3   HENSLEY, George b: 1804 in VA
....... +CONLEY, Judith Judy b: 1806 in Cabell Co, WV
2   HENSLEY, Susan b: 1754 in Spotsylvania.Co.VA
2   HENSLEY, Mary b: 1758 in Spotsylvania.Co.VA
2   HENSLEY, Catherine b: 1760 in Russell.Co.VA   

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Hensley "Land'

Hensley land in Pioneer Fayette County, Iowa: 
....In 1852 Andrew Hensley acquire the Nathaniel Wilcox claim in section 1 of Smithfield located near the red circle at the west end of Bear Grove near Bear Creek.  Andrew returned to Grant County, Wisconsin east of Dubuque, Iowa, for the family.  He became sick and over-wintered in Wisconsin.  Later in 1853 the removed the family through Dubuque, traveled the Mission Trail to Eads Grove (Manchester) where he over-wintered. 
.....In 1844 Andrew moved the family permanently into Fayette County and bought a second claim and rudimentary cabin from Madison Brown, probably on Grannis creek in section 36 of Westfield.  In the late summer or fall of 1844 he hired Mr. Noble from Yankee Settlement (Colesburg) to break open (plow) a small field of prairie grass probably in the whitish area on the above map, around the red circle in section 1, Smithfield.  Remember, it generally took multiple yoke of oxen and a big heavy single share plow to break any kind of prairie soil.  The bottom land field near bear creek would have been tall grass prairie with in this case grasses with medium deep roots  Andrew and his young sons hand sowed winter wheat in this field.  Winter wheat germinates in the fall, lies dormant under the snow, then grows rapidly to maturity in the late spring and is harvested by early summer.  The climate in northern Iowa was much harsher and colder than the Hensley's had been accustomed to while growing up in Floyd County, Kentucky and Edgar County, Illinois.  However, the Hensley's harvested the reported first crop of wheat in Fayette County from this field. 
....The winter of 1844-45, the Hensley family spent in the basic cabin bought from Madison Brown, apparently at the head of Grannis Hollow.  Mrs. Hensley would have a run in with some Indian braves at this cabin during 1845 and become 'scared' to return to the area.  Andrew would move the family into one side of the old Franklin Wilcox cabin at Wilcox settlement for the warm seasons of 1845, while Andrew built his own cabin, apparently at the Bear Grove claim. 
.....The Hensley family would live in the Bear Grove cabin from the winter of 1845 to spring of 1849 when Andrew would purchase land in section 19 of Illyria Township. This was about a mile and a half downstream from where the Light brothers were attempting to build a mill at what became known as Lightville, later to be named Lima.  The family would stay on the section 19 land in Illyria Township from 1849 until 1851, when Andrew would acquire the Lima mill site from the Lights and much of the land immediately adjacent to the village plat and within the platted town.  The Light brothers would move on at this time leaving Andrew in 'charge' of the area.  While Andrew is living in section 19, a mill was started by one of the Light brothers and Talbott at Talbott's ford across the Volga about at the red line on the map.  That mill was never finished and the timbers and materials moved upriver to the location where the Lima mill would be started by one of the Lights and a Piper.  They never finished, Andrew Hensley bought the property of the lights including the mill site.
.....By 1852 Andrew had finished a first generation saw and grist mill at the Lima location and have it operating while finishing living quarters at Lima and moving the family up from section 19.   The children were getting older and now becoming a significant part of the family work force.  Andrew would operate the Lima mill until 1855 when he sold it to Mr. Durfey, who would oversee the mill for several decades, along with other millers and workers.  Andrew retained most of the land surrounding and within Lima.
.....After selling the Lima mill, Andrew would buy the bottom land farm immediately adjacent to the northern end of the Lima plat and running up into the wooded hills to the west of the bottoms.  Andrew would farm this land with the help of his children until his death in 1878.  His son-in-law Reuben Perkins would then run the farm for a number of years before removing 8 miles SE to the Brush Creek (Arlington) area.  Andrew's son Reuben L. Hensley would take over the farm and even acquire more of the hills land to the west.  Reuben L. Hensley farm here until his death in 1929.
.....After Andrew moved to Lima farm, his son A.J. farmed the land around Lima, plus a farm 1+ miles up Frog Hollow to the north of Andrew's Albany farm.  After 1878 the mill property apparently reverted from the Durfey's back to the Hensley family and A.J. kept ownership of the mill for sometime but Mr. Durfey continued to run the mill.  Eventually A.J. would move into Fayette and the Lima land would revert to his sister Susie Hensley Potter, to include all the land the circumvented the village of Lima and much of the platted village land.

Andrew Hensley's Albany farm

The view is across Andrew's field from the bottom of the Albany hill at the northern edge of the Albany plat looking up Frog Hollow.

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All of these Lima, Albany area folks are related by marriage. 
The Hensley tree above lists some of them under Reuben's line.

…Reuben Hensley, pioneer settler goes to his final reward. Resident of Fayette County, Iowa, since 1844, passed away August 3, 1929. Reuben was born in (Edgar Co) Illinois, July 1, 1841, the son of Andrew Hensley, a native of Kentucky. There were 4 girls and 3 boys in the Andrew Hensley family, besides three boys from a former marriage, Isaac L., Andrew Jackson and Jacob Goodwin. Reuben was the last of the family alive. Andrew Jackson, Daniel P. and Cordelia having died within the last four years (1925-1929).

…When Reuben was a very small child (early 1840’s) the family moved into Wisconsin (Grant County, east of Dubuque, Iowa) from Kentucky (from the Cole/Edgar County, Illinois area on the eastern border with Indiana, ExSE of Springfield.). In 1843 (spring of 1944) the Andrew Hensley family came to eastern Iowa, which was then an Indian territory. They lived the first winter (1843-1844) at Eads Grove (Manchester).

…In the spring of 1844 they came to Fayette County and lived at Bear Grove (probably on a second claim and in the cabin built by Madison Brown on Grannis Creek a mile north of Bear Creek.), which was on the line between Smithfield and Fairfield townships, not far northwest of Arlington (At that time this was only a very few cabins along the Mission road from Dubuque up through Fayette County to Ft. Atkinson across the county line in Winneshiek County. A cabin was settled by a family named Moe so the ‘settlement’ was becoming known as Moetown, soon be called Brush Creek with the name changed to Arlington in 1895).

…After 6 years in the Bear Grove area (and the Wilcox Settlement area), in 1850, the Hensley family came to what is now (1929) the John Hastings farm near Lima (This was the area just to the NE of Albany and to the W of Lima.  Andrew would take over the mill site at Lima and build the first generation saw and grist mill at Lima by 1852, then sell it to Mr. Durfey by 1855 and move to a farm on the flats just to the north of Albany.)

…In 1855, when Reuben was 14 years old they moved to the farm near Albany (on the north edge) where the children all grew to manhood and womanhood, and as the years went by were scattered away.

…Richard and Daniel went to the Civil War. Daniel alone came back, as Richard sleeps on the battlefield. Elizabeth is buried in Decorah, Winneshiek Co, Iowa. Caroline in the West, Sarah near Arlington, and Cordelia at Lima.

…From this home near Albany the father and mother passed to the Great Beyond many years ago. Not to long ago Cordelia came back there to die, and today we carry the body of Reuben to its last resting place. Last Saturday at nine in the evening God spoke to him to lay his burdens down and come home.

…Reuben Hensley was married to Sarah Blakeney (spelling??) of Auburn, Auburn Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa, January 1, 1871. Two little girls gladden their home, Ida and Nettie. Reuben and family lived in Albany a few years and in 1881 he purchased the old home and moved their April 11 of that year. Nettie and her mother went home many years ago. Ida is Mrs. Frank Jones of this vicinity.

…April 11, 1916, Reuben Hensley was married to Mrs. Mary Stevens, who survives him. This date, April 11, was the anniversary of his first moving back to the old home farm.

…Mr. Hensley was formerly of the Baptist church at Albany. He contributed to the building of the church at Lima, and united with the Methodist Episcopal class there and continued faithful to the end.

…Reuben was a hard working man, of an unassuming nature, always preferring to suffer wrong than to do wrong. He was always patient, thoughtful, and of a contented disposition which is well expressed in these lines of the poet: "I would not have the restless will that hurries to and fro; Seeking for some great thing to do or secret thing to know. I ask Three for daily strength. None who ask are denied; And a mind to blend with outward life. Still keeping at Thy side. There are briars besetting every path, That call for patient care; There is a cross in every lot, and a constant need for prayer; Yet a lowly heart that leans on Thee Is happy everywhere."

…Besides a host of friends and many distant relatives he leaves to mourn his loss, his wife, daughter, Ida, and husband, and two grandsons in whom he took much pride. Rueben and Hebert. Reuben is at home on the farm and Herbert spent the past year in Ames (Iowa State University).

…A very large concourse was in attendance upon the funeral services, conducted by Rev. D.M. Parker at the Lima Church, Monday afternoon, with the burial in the cemetery nearby (Lima Cemetery).

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Lima, Albany area men in 1907

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Lima Letter in the Fayette Post Card, October 5, 1887

…Dan (Daniel P.) Hensley has returned here after quite a long absence looking for a good place to locate and has concluded to settle down at Lima.|
…Reuben L. Hensley and the Finch Brothers are making preparations to build new houses this fall.
…We understand a new time table is soon to go into effect on our railroad and that the freight and passenger will meet here at 10:45 am.
…The one great event this week was the moving of the post office. P.M. Hastings had moved into the new store, has everything new and convenient and handles the mail with the grace and ease of the old hand. F. T. Pilkington is duly installed as assistant and will look after Uncle Sam’s interest in the absence of the postmaster.
…Mr. E. E. Henry lost a valuable horse last Monday.
…Lima is gaining quite a reputation as a butter and egg market, the highest price in the county being paid. Let it boom; it needs it.
…Mrs. Bass and family will remove to West Union this week. We are sorry to see them go.
…W. F. Shepard and family have returned from California and will settle here at Lima, concluding this is the El Dorado.
…Mrs. C. Wilson is quite sick and requires the attendance of a doctor daily.
…Rumor says our boys will get into trouble if they do not quit playing ball on the Sabbath. A hint to the wise, &c.

Offrspring in their later years of several original pioneer families of the Lima, Albany area.

Westfield Township Biographies:
From the 1878 History of Fayette Co, Iowa, page 689
HENSLEY, ANDREW J., farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. Lima; born in Missouri Dec. 3, 1837; came to this county with his father in 1843; his father (Andrew)  who died Jan. 3, 1878, was the oldest settler in Fayette Co. The son was married Nov. 25, 1858, to Loretta Smith; she was born in Winnebago, Co., III., Aug. 10, 1841; have two children ---George W., born Sept. 18, 1859, and Susie E. (would marry a Potter and take over the Hensley farm adjacent to Lima), Oct. 6, 1863. He (A.J.) was Postmaster here (Lima) from 1866 to1877, Township Trustee and School Director several years. He can remember when the country was full of Indians; his brother, Daniel now living in Fairfield Township, is claimed to be the first white child born in what is now Fayette Co. Family belonging to the United Brethren Church.

Hensley, R, (Reuben, younger brother of A.J.) farmer (on his father's farm just north of Albany), Sec. 14; P. O. West Albany.

Andrew Hensley (1803-1878) Timeline.
1803, Born in Kentucky (Floyd Co)
1822, age 19, came to eastern Illinois from Kentucky with father's family.  Removed  from (Floyd Co?) Kentucky to Edgar Co, Illinois, mid-eastern border area with his father William James Hensley and family.  The Edgar and Coles county area at the time was a total frontier, thus Andrew spent almost his entire life as a frontier pioneer.
1824, age 21, Married Susan Lewis (1806 Virginia-1837 Illinois) in Edgar Co, Illinois.
1825, Son Isaac L. Hensley born (1825-1830)
1829, Dau Emmaline Hensley born (1829-1830)
1831, Dau Malinda Hensley born (1831-1835)
1833, Son Andrew Jackson Hensley born (1833 island in Mississippi below St. L-1925 Fayette)
1836, Son Jacob Goodwin Hensley born (1836-1913)
1837, age 34,First wife Susan Lewis dies in Edgar Co, Illinois area.
1838, Married Sarah Lovell (1819 Indiana-1872 Lima) in Edgar Co, Illinois.
1839, Andrew was farming/gathering in Edgar Co, Illinois from 1822-1839, from age 19 to 26+.  He apparently was moving across Illinois into Missouri plus 'exploring' land possibilities in the north along the Illinois and Wisconsin border.
1839, age 36, Removed to SW Grant County, Wisconsin (across from Dubuque, Iowa)
1840, Dau Elizabeth Hensley .(1840 Coles Co, Ill?-1909 Decorah, Winneshiek Co, Iowa)
1840, The Wilcox settlement starts along the Mission Trail in Fayette Co, Iowa.  Andrew Hensley will shortly arrive to work and live with all of the first pioneers into the area.
1841, Son Reuben L. Hensley born (1841 Grant Co, Wisc- 1929, Albany, Fayette Co, Iowa)
1842, age 39, came to Fayette County for land.  Andrew would arrive in the area around the Wilcox settlement and buy the claim of Nathaniel Wilcox, four miles to the east in Bear Grove, Sec. 1, Smithfield Twp, Fayette County, Iowa, then returned to Grant Co, Wisconsin for the family.
1842/43, Became sick and remained in Grant Co, Wisconsin.
1843, Son Richard N. Hensley born (1843 Grant Co, Wisc. - 1863 Battle of Vicksburg)
1843/44, Brought the family as far as Ead's Grove (Manchester, Iowa) and over-wintered.
NOTE: There is some conflict of thought, mine, as to where the family was staying upon the move into to Fayette Co in the spring of 1844 after over-wintering at Ead's Grove.
1844, Bought the claim and moved into the primitive cabin of Madison Brown, Sec 36, Westfield Twp, at the head of Grannis Creek.
1844, In the spring of 1844,  Andrew rented Joe Hewett's place, northwest of Strawberry Point, just in the edge of Clayton County, and moved his family into a little cabin about one and a half miles west of Hewett's, in the edge of Fayette County, owned by Moses, son of Joe Hewitt.  Here, November 27, 1844, Daniel P. HENSLEY was born, claimed the first white child born in Fayette County.  (Andrew may have been using both the Brown and Hewitt cabin the winter of 1844/45, as there seems to be conflicting bits of info, bz/2003)
1844, Mrs. Hensley had a run-in at the 'Brown' cabin with three Indian braves, became concerned and would not return.
1844, Andrew moves the family into the old Franklin Wilcox cabin at Wilcox settlement 4+ miles to the west.
1845, Age 42, Living and farming in Fayette County begins in earnest on the Bear and Grannis Creek areas.  Andrew made a quantity of maple sugar, probably in Grannis Canyon.
1845, Andrew harvest the first crop of wheat grown in Fayette County.  His young boys, A.J. and Jacob would take a wagon load pulled by 3-4 yoke of oxen, 75 miles to the south to the mill at Cascade, in Delaware County.
1845, Andrew constructed his own log cabin on the first claim he purchased in 1842 from Nathaniel Wilcox on the north side of Bear Creek in Bear Grove in the Corn Hills area, and only a mile+ south of the 'Brown' cabin and claim. Andrew apparently farmed this two claims near Grannis and Bear Creek in the later half of the 1840's.  He would have been doing a variety of activities to 'make a living,' to include clearing timber, farming small fields, raising a few livestock, collecting honey, hauling floor and other items to Fort Atkinson, etc.  Andrew would also have been 'probing' and 'exploring' for new land possibilities across the neutral grounds line immediately to the north of his 'claims' in the Volga River flowage. The Volga river bottoms and hills were very prime land locations for anyone with Andrew's knowledge of farming, subsistent agriculture and apparently milling. It would be to the Volga river bottoms at Lightville (Lima) that Andrew Hensley would take up a nice parcel of farm, built a mill and become a very significant part of the successful development of the pioneer villages of Lima and Albany and the Frog Hollow valley.  He would live the rest of his life in the Lima, Albany area as would some of his descendants.
1845/46, Andrew Hensley, Madison Brown, Horace Bemis, James Beatty, Lorenzo Mulliken and Mr. Messenger hauled floor from the mill at Quasqueton to the Fort a journey about about 70 miles by snow sleds pulled by multiple yoke of oxen. Young A.J., about 13 years old was actively involved, working with the men.
1846/47, The Hensley children attended school at Ead's Grove (Manchester) 40 miles to the SW along the Mission Trail.
1847, Andrew was elected as one of three justice of the peace in Fayette County, which was attached to Hewitt Twp, of Clayton Co.
1848, Andrew Hensley, J.P., married Glidden and Lowe.
1848, Dau Sarah Jane Hensley born (1848 Bear Grove cabin - 1884 Brush Creek or Arlington, Iowa)
1848, From 1844-1848, Andrew, his young sons, and his few pioneer neighbors were subsistent farming and gathering, plus 'making wages' hauling commodities along the Mission Trial from Dubuque to the Fort.  They make numerous journeys to Fort Atkinson and the Mission.  There were long, slow trips by multiple yoke of oxen pulling freight wagons and in winter heavy snow sleds. Starting in about 1850, the family would move into the Volga River valley of today's Lima, Albany and become very successful farmers and millers.  Their life would start to rapidly change from log cabin dwelling subsistence frontier pioneers to stationary quite affluent farmers and millers during the next two decades.
1849, age 46, moved into the Volga valley where he would farm and live the remainder of his live. Andrew Hensley, October 19, 1849, entered section 19, in Illyria Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa. This is the along the Volga River just to the east of the "to be" village of Lima, and on the line between Westfield and Illyria Twp. This is one of the early entries of land in Fayette County above the neutral ground line.  Andrew would soon take over the mill site at Lightville (Lima) about a mile  upriver from this 1849 land entry.
1850, Up to this time Andrew used Dubuque 70+ miles away, as his post office and for necessary commodities and supplies.
1850, As Fayette County government is formed with local control, Andrew was elected at a meeting October 8, as one of the three judges for Westfield Twp.
1851, Andrew acquired the Lima mill site and most of the land immediately around the mill and Lima.  He would move the family upriver about one mile to Lima, from his 'entry' land in sec 19, Illyria Twp.
1852, age 49, Puts the Lima mill into operation. The Hensley mill at Lima, a first generation saw and grist mill became operational.
1853, Dau Cordelia S. Hensley born (1853 Lima - 1826 Lima)
1854, Dau Caroline Amanda Hensley born (1854 Lima - 1911 Eureka, Lincoln Co, Montana)
1855, age 52, Buys and enters the farm just north of Albany to live out his life.  Andrew sold the mill at Lima with the surrounding land to Mr. Durfey.  The Hensley's would get the mill and much of the farm land completely around Lima back in their ownership about 1865.  Andrew would stay at his Albany farm until his death in 1878.  At this time the mill property apparently returned into the hands of the Hensley family from the Durfey family who would continue to run the mill.   A.J., Andrew's son was about 22+ when his father moved to the Albany farm. A.J. retained the land around Lima when his father moved to the Albany farm, plus operated a farm a mile farther north up Frog Hollow of his father.  After re-acquiring the mill site, A. J. would control the mill and continue farm the fields adjacent and nearly completely around Lima. The Hensley offspring would marry into local families, to include the Jones, Potter, Perkins, Smith surnames, thus through time on the plat maps around Albany and Lima one will see farm area continue to be owned by the 'clans.' The Hensley offspring would also marry into Brush Creek (Arlington), Taylorsville (now gone) and Fayette families.
1856, age 53. Son James Hensley born (1856 Albany farm - ?), his second wife, Sarah Lovell (1819 Indiana-1872 Lima) is age 37 at the time.
1878, age 75, Andrew Hensley patriarch of the Fayette County Hensley clan dies at the Albany farm.
and on into the 1900's, Patriarch of the Hensley family at Lima, Albany, Frog Hollow, Andrew dies.  His farm would be in the hands of his Perkins in-laws, with son Reuben L. taking over the farm and acquiring nearly all of the bottom and and into the western hill side, farming the area in the early 1900's until his death.  A.J. remained on the Lima farm with his daughter Susie Hensley Potter taking over that land prior to A.J.'s death in 1925.  The Hensley clan would marry into several of the local Lima, Albany surnames of the Volga River and Frog Hollow valleys.  The area was never highly populated, with both villages remaining small in support of the a limited number of local farmers, with a store or two, some craftsmen, mills, country schools, a few local churches, a couple of local doctors, etc.
1900's, The Hensley surname, like most of the surnames of Westfield township becomes less obvious with the increasing population and its mobility to the larger cities due to rail and auto transportation. Lima and Albany remained a small farming area and disappeared into memory as the big business of the 1960's and beyond drastically change agriculture and culture.  The area never ended in the mega farms of the row crop prairies to the west of Fayette, but the farms did become bigger with few and few families in the area.  The conservation commission starting the 1960's acquired nearly all the land from Lima village to the west through Albany and Frog Hollow, plus all the way upriver to near Fayette.  Today the Hensley genes are gone from the exact land they pioneered, but do remain the area with a few related clan surnames.  Actually most of the area surnames are now gone, only memories, as are Lima, Albany, Frog Hollow.

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