CHARLES F. HEAGNEY from the "Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa"
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CHARLES F. HEAGNEY, a retired farmer of Boomer Township, was born in 
Crawford County, Pennsylvania, October 4, 1848, a son of Dominick and 
Hannah (Scott) Heagney.  Mr. Heagney's paternal grandfather was 
married first to Catherine McBride, a native of Ireland, and had seven 
children:  Margaret, Bridget, Rosanna, Martha, Mary, John, and 
Catherine.  Afterward, in 1817 he married Miss Sarah Brookhouser, who 
was born July 4, 1800, the first-born child of Adam and Keziah (Mason) 
Brookhauser, natives of Pennsylvania and of German descent.  She had 
five brothers and three sisters:  Mary, Adam, Margaret, William, 
Esther, Elderson, Hiram and Isaac.  The Heagney family remained in 
Pennsylvania until 1849 and then moved to Dubuque County, Iowa, 
settling upon a partially improved farm, where the father finally 
died, in 1851, leaving a wife and nine children.  The children are:  
Adam, who resides in California; Dominick, the father of Charles F.; 
the next one died in infancy; William and Andrew J. reside in 
California; the next born is also deceased; Sarah, residing in Sioux 
City; George W., living in Missouri Valley, this State; and James K., 
also deceased.  In 1858 the remainder of the family came to 
Pottawattamie County and located upon a piece of rough, unimproved 
prairie, made a fine home and lived there twenty years.  In 1878 the 
widow disposed of the farm and went to Dakota, where she remained 
until 1888, and returning, settled in the vicinity of Missouri Valley, 
with her son George.  She is now ninety years of age.

Mr. Dominick Heagney was born March 2, 1828, and December 31, 1847, 
married Miss Hannah, daughter of Isaac and Catherine Scott, natives of 
New York State and farmers, who lived in Pennsylvania in 1844-'49.  
The mother died and the remainder of the family came to Iowa.  In the 
family were five children:  Phoebe, Hannah, Henry, Henrietta and 
Catherine.  After his father died Mr. Heagney remained on the farm 
about seven years and then came to Pottawattamie County and purchased 
eight acres of rough, unimproved land, and made of it a good home.  He 
built a residence 32 x 44 feet and a story and a half in height.  
Farming and stock-raising were his specialties, and he dealt in hogs, 
horses and cattle, especially the latter.  He disposed of that farm 
and bought property in Missouri Valley, where he now lives a somewhat 
retired life.  He has been an industrious and exemplary citizen.

In his political views he is a lively Democrat.  August 7, 1862, he 
enlisted in Company A, Twenty-ninth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, under 
Captain John T. Williams and General Fiske, in the Department of the 
Gulf.  He participated in the siege of Vicksburg, was stationed at 
Helena; was in the campaign from Little Rock to Camden, when he was 
under continual fire for sixteen days; was also at Jenkins' Ferry, 
where there was some hard fighting and in the siege of Mobile.  In 
1865 he was stationed at the mouth of the Rio Grande.  On the 10th of 
August that year he was mustered out, at New Orleans.  There were four 
brothers in the war, of whom one was killed and the other three 
returned home.  Mr. Heagney, though not wounded, contracted a disease 
of the eye and rheumatism, from which he still suffers.  He had seven 
children, namely:  Charles F., our subject; Rose, the wife of W. E. 
Laughery and residing in Missouri Valley; Mary, the wife of Fred 
McCollugh and living also in Missouri Valley; Catherine, now Mrs. John 
Fisher; Addie, wife of William E. Baldwin and residing in Fremont, 
Nebraska; two died in infancy.

Mr. Charles F. Heagney, reared to farm life, at the age of twenty-one 
years went to Kansas and entered a tract of land, returned to 
Pottawattamie County, visited Dakota awhile and returned home again, 
where he remained until he was married, April 24, 1877, to Miss 
Maggie, daughter of David and Mary (Phillips) Roberts, parents natives 
of Wales.  Mr. Roberts, a carpenter, was born in March, 1808, and 
reared to farm life; he came to the United States in the summer of 
1855, resided four years in Iowa City and then located upon his farm 
in this county.  By his first wife he had one child, Bessie, who is 
now living in Wales.  By his present wife he had eight children, as 
follows:  William, at home; David and Emma, dead; Rosa, at home; and 
Mary, wife of Thomas French and residing in Boomer; Margaret; Samuel, 
at home; and Harriet, the wife of Joseph Cusworth and residing in 
Boomer.  Margaret was born August 15, 1853, and completed her school 
education in the high school of Council Bluffs.

Mr. Heagney bought his present place of eighty acres on section 5, 
Boomer Township, when there were but few improvements upon it.  He has 
continued to add other improvements until he has made of the place an 
excellent residence.  He has also added to his land area until he now 
has 120 acres of fine land, half of which is devoted to plowed crops.  
At present he is renting the farm and enjoying the fruits of his labor 
at ease.  He has formerly been a very hard-working man but for the 
past five years he has not had perfect health.  Principally for the 
sake of recovering his health, he went in 1886 to the Black Hills of 
Dakota and for four months was engaged in building the Fremont, 
Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad.  He returned with his health 
considerably improved.

He is a well-settled and intelligent Democrat.  He has been Road 
Supervisor two years.  He is a member of St. John Lodge of the Mutual 
Protection Society.  Was reared in the Roman Catholic Church.  He has 
had two children, Mary Emma, born January 19, 1878, and Edna, November 
6, 1887.

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If you would like more information about anyone mentioned in this
biography, please write to the Pottawattamie County Genealogical
Society at:

P.O. Box 394
Council Bluffs, IA 51502-0394

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