DRURY, ISAIAH
                           Welsh, LA 




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Source: Southwest Louisiana Historical and Biographical by William Henry Perrin
published in 1891; page147.
Typed by Margaret Rentrop Moore.

Isaiah Drury, Welsh - Isaiah Drury was born in Indiana, July, 1827.  He is the
son of Isaac and Hannah (Reese) Drury, both natives of Pennsylvania.  Isaac
Drury removed to Mercer county, Illinois, in 1838, where he bought land and
engaged in farming until his death, in 1870.  His wife died at the same place in
1875.

The subject of this sketch is the oldest of a family of five brothers and four
sisters, viz: William Jesse R., Paris, James M., Celica, wife of David Duffield,
of Illinois; Sarah J., wife of James Robbins; Emilie, wife of James Boner;
Vashti wife of Mr. Campbell, of putnam county, Missouri. 
Mrs. Duffield is deceased.  Until 1885 Isaiah Drury was a farmer in Marshall
county, Iowa.  In this year he removed to Calcasieu parish, Louisiana, where he
purchased three hundred and twenty acres of land, seventy of which are under
cultivation.  He raises on his farm a variety of products, and by industry and
carefull management Mr. Drury has been very successful.
He was married in 1847 to Miss Margaret J. Leech.  To this union have been born
six sons and three daughters, viz: Samuel, now a redident of Iowa; Reese, of
Iowa; Albert, of Iowa, and William of Lafayette, Nebraska; Manala, wife of James
Daughtery, of Iowa, and Ella N., wife of John Cline, a native of Pennsylvania. 
Mr. Drury is a member of the Masonic fraternity.