WILLIAM M. CONDRA

CONDRA, GREEN, DAVIS

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 7/17/2009 at 06:14:41

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

WILLIAM M. CONDRA, farmer, Sec. 27, P.O. Livingston; born in Knox Co., Ill., Oct 28, 1841; with his father, Jacob C., came to this county in 1850; remained at home until he enlisted in Co. I, 36th Iowa V.I., Capt. Gedney, in 1862; participated at Helena, Little Missouri, Saline River, Little Rock, Mark's Mill; then the regiment was captured and held at Tyler, Texas, for ten months; but he, having been detailed to guard prisoners, was not taken; mustered out at Davenport, Iowa, Aug 24, 1865. Married Miss Mary I. Green, June 17, 1866; she was born in Washington Co., Ohio, in 1842; died Feb. 13, 1873, leaving two children - Emma A., born in 1868, and Ollive O., born Sept 20, 1871; her father, David Green, was a substantial farmer of Pleasant Tp.; born in New England; first settled in Ohio and came to Appanoose Co. in 1852. Then married Miss Susanna C. Davis, March 25, 1874; she was born in Adair Co., Ky., in 1853; they have two children - Jennie, born Dec 21, 1874, and Minnie Bell, July 29, 1877. Republican; he is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and of A.F.&A.M., No. 133, Bellair, Iowa. Owns 105 acres of well improved lands, all fenced except fifteen acres of timber, valued at $25 per acre. Mrs. Condra's father, John M. Davis, came to Davis Co., Iowa; there engaged in farming; his trade being that of a stonemason, he engaged in that whenever he found an opportunity; came to this county in 1863, and remained until August 1877, when he removed to Kansas; was a man of excellent religious principles, at times preaching the Gospel. Her mother was of a similar character, and an ornament to the society in which she moved.