Johnson-Iowa-Shelby County IA Archives History - Books .....Book Excerpt January 1, 1882
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/iafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Colleen Lopez- Green kolzion@yahoo.com and Vickie Dejong colleenlopez@yahoo.com October 19, 2006, 1:09 pm

Book Title: History Of Johnson County Iowa Containing A History Of The County, And Its Townships, Cities And Villanges From 1836-1882

"History of Johnson County, Iowa containg a History of the county, and it's 
Townships, Cities, and Villages from 1836 to 1882." 

It lists Mrs Mary Myers, she is one of Samuels Greens Aunts and ours. So this 
is the original migration pattern it's pertinant to all of us. p. 734 "Mrs. 
Mary Myers, one of the old settlers of this township, has twice given birth to 
twins. The following is a sketch of her life; Mary Green was born September 3, 
1820, in Newton township, Cumberland county, Pennnsyvania, embraced religion in 
1841 and united with the Disciples Church in that county. February 5, 1846, she 
was married to Moses Stover, and the same year they emigrated to Iowa; started 
from West Hill, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and traveled by wagon, across 
the Blue Ridge Mountains, to Newport, then by canal and railroad to Pittsburg, 
and from there down the Ohio River and up the Mississippi to St Louis on the 
steamboat "Robert Fulton"; from St Louis   up to Bloomington (now Muscatine) on 
the steamboat "St. Croix,"   and from there to Iowa City by Wagon; lived in 
Iowa City awhile and then setteld in "North Bend," as this settlement was then 
called. She bore three children to Mr. Stover; two of them a boy and a girl 
being twins; the boy died in infancy; the other children. Anna E. and Mary E. 
grew up. September 8, 1850, her husband, Moses Stover, died, and was buried int 
he North Bend cemetary, the third burial and in the same year she was married 
to Valentine Myers. In this marriage she bore six children, four sons and two 
daughters; one son died in infancy; and two of the Myer's children were twins, 
as two of the Stover had been before. In 1849 her father and mother David and 
Mary Green came to Iowa. David Green died, May 6, 1867 aged 71 years. Mary 
Green his wife, died July 5, 1872 aged 81 years."    

Additional Comments:
Mary Myers daughter of Sammuel Green son of David Green and Mary Green 
(provides information on Birthdates and Deaths.) Green information on migration 
from PA to Iowa. Other names on this listing, children Anna e. and Mary E., 
Remarriage to Moses Stover. Lists hardships and travel. Please contact me if we 
are connected!  

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ia/johnson/history/1882/historyo/bookexce2gms.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/iafiles/

File size: 3.0 Kb