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- 1850
Census: Peter HUNTSMAN
age 51 born PA, head of household with wife Catherine and
four children.
Excerpts from: EARLY SETTLERS OF EMERSON,
IOWA18
- 1849 - Peter HUNTSMAN came from
Maryland and settled west of Emerson. His wife was
Catherine STELZ. Their children were: William I., James,
Alfred I. and Margaret.
- William I married Almira
WYRICK. Their children were: Alfred II, Alvira, Peter II,
George, Rose Anna, Dora, William II, and Levi.
- Two of the children of
William I and Almira WYRICK stayed in the Emerson
area. William II married Clara COPPOCK. Their children
were: Rosa, Homer, Bessie, George, William, Florean,
Theodore (Ted), Otha, Bert, Clarence, Virginia.
- Levi married Amy COPPOCK. ( The
COPPOCKs are from Henderson). Their children were: Carl,
James, Fred, Raymond, Lucille (EDIE), Doyle, Ione
(SCHICK), Guy, Maxine (JENSEN), and Vivian (BABBITT).
- Descendants of Levi and
William HUNTSMAN still living in Emerson are: Lucille
EDIE and son Fred EDIE; Ray, Jim, Ione and son Blaine
SCHICK; Guy, Fred, Vivian and son Vaughn BABBITT.
- George and son George Wm.
(Willie) and daughter Geneva COOK, and Robert HUNTSMAN,
son of Theodore.
- Alfred I married Hannah WATSON.
Their children were: Mary, Catherine, Margaret, Perry,
Ella Jane, Alvin Eugene.
- Margaret married Nathan
EATON. Their children: Katherine, (Kate as she was
known, married Charles E. LAKIN), Margaret, Elizabeth,
Jim, Alphonze, Zoa, Ella, Ida May, Albert, Fred,
George, Clieve.
Firsts in Indian Creek19
- First death in the township was
a man named HUNTSMAN. He was murdered by his nephew with
a hoe in 1853. The murderer fled to the west farther
among the wilds.
- First white child born in
township in 1852 was Maude Alvira HUNTSMAN.
Early Settlers and Settlements 1836-185620
- 1849 - In Indian Creek had
located Peter HUNTSMAN from Maryland, on section
twenty-seven
- 1852 - On the 28th of August
was born Alvira, daughter of William and Alvira HUNTSMAN,
in Indian Creek township.
NORTH GROVE CEMETERY, Mills County,
IA21
The following information was submitted by Scott C.
Larson to the Mills County, Iowa GenWeb site:
- Indian Creek Township, Section
29
North Grove Cemetery, originally an Indian and Mormon
burial ground is located 1 1/2 miles east of Hastings and
1 mile south of Highway 34 junction of Nishna Valley
School, or 3 miles west of Emerson and 1 mile south of
Highway 34 in the NE 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 29,
Indian Creek Township. Information in italics was either
not included in or differs from the 1982 Mills Co.
Cemetery book.
Submitted by Scott C. Larson
- Mills County Tribune
Glenwood, Ia.
Oct. 11, 1915
Killed a Man to Start It
The North Grove cemetery two miles east of Hastings is
beautifully located upon a knoll overlooking Indian
creek's wooded valley. It is reasonably well verified
that the foot of the north slope upon which the cemetery
is located, was used as an Indian burial ground. That
part is now north of the road that runs east and west
past the cemetery.
North Grove Cemetery entrance
It was not because of this historical association that
the North Grove cemetery was located where it is.
The first settlements made in that vicinity were in 1852.
It was an extremely healthful community, evidently for
there was no need of a burial ground until the spring of
1853.
The land for the cemetery is part of the Ross place as a
man by that name entered the land. The farm is now
occupied by George Bowen.
In the Spring of 1853, two men named HUNTSMAN, an uncle
and nephew, were working in a field not many rods from
where the cemetery is located. They fell into a dispute.
One or both were using those heavy hoes made of one piece
of iron with an eyelet for the handle. The result of the
dispute was that the nephew struck his uncle such a blow
with the hoe that the uncle was killed. The nephew
disappeared and never has been heard of since.
The dead man had to be buried and it was decided the
knoll mentioned previously as the site of the cemetery be
selected as his burial place.
Thus was North Grove cemetery started. To start a white
man's grave yard a man was killed, and a murdered man was
its first occupant.
North Grove cemetery bears the distinction of containing,
probably, the costliest monument of Mills county, that of
Alex BOWEN. A ladies cemetery association has been in
existence in that vicinity for years. A fairly
respectable sum of money has been set aside by now
occupants of the cemetery, to provide an income to care
for several graves of that cemetery.
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