History of Paralta, (Linn County) Iowa United States of America

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Abram Bolton, a stock feeder, farmer, &c., Sec. 33; P. O. Paralta; owns 625 acres of land, worth $22,000; he was born in Rockingham Co., Va., June 11, 1814; son of Abram and Rosanna Miller-Bolton; father of English origin; mother's father came from Germany. His father was in the war of 1812; discharged Dec 16, 1814; about two years after, went to Harrison Co., Va., and died there in the Summer of 1847, aged 63; mother died there in 1869, in her 85th year. He married Feb. 20, 1837, to Nancy Campbell, born in Geneva, Fayette Co., Penn., in 1817; she died Feb. 9, 1857, having had eight children--Sarah Ann, b. April 21, 1838; Noah, b. Oct. 22, 1839, died Feb. 13, 1857, in Iowa; Maria Jane, b. Oct. 22, 1841, died April 5, 1875, in Kansas; William Thomas, b. March 16, 1844, died February, 1873, in Missouri; John Blackburn, b. Dec. 23, 1845; Andrewville Elbert, b. Oct. 13, 1847; Mary Margaret, b. May 20, 1851, in Louisiana; Henry Allen, b. April 23, 1855, in Louisiana. Abram married again March 20, 1857, to Nancy Lindville, born in Harrison Co., Va., Dec. 19, 1829; she died April 19, 1863; left three children--Rosanna, b. Feb. 20, 1860; Noah (2d), b. May 27, 1861; George McClellan, b. Oct. 20, 1862. Abram married his third wife, Mrs. Susanna Kearns-Stewart, Dec. 3, 1870; she was born Jan. 17, 1831, in Wayne Co., Ohio; she has had one child--Ida May, b. May 22, 1872. Mr. Bolton went to Indiana in the Spring of 1837; followed farming and teaching singing schools there nearly thirteen years; in the Fall of 1849, came to this county; entered 200 acres where he now lives, at a cost of ninety-five cents per acre; in 1871, he built a very commodious house--one of the best in this part of Linn Co. He is a Baptist and a Republican. Mrs. B. is a Methodist.

History of Paralta, (Linn County) Iowa

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