Charles W. Carl

CARL, WHITMER, OWENS

Posted By: Joanne Williams (email)
Date: 7/22/2007 at 18:20:02

History of Cedar Co., Iowa, 1878

Center Township

Carl, Charles W., farmer and stock raiser, Sec. 22; P. O. Tipton; born in Richland Co., Ohio, Feb. 24, 1833; moved to Indiana in 1836; was there one year and a half, and came with his parents by wagon with two yokes of oxen and a horse to Cedar Co., being four weeks on the way, and arrived here in Oct., 1838; they settled in a shanty on Crooked Creek; they made a claim where his brother now lives, and entered it when it came into market; there was plenty of Indians here when they came; there are few settlers now living her ewho were here then; Mr. Carl had but very little when he began; he now owns 520 acres of land; has held town and school offices. Married Amanda Whitmer, from Ohio, March, 1857; she died in 1865; they had three children--Josiah B., Charlie O. and Effie C. Married Rhoda J. Owens, from Ohio; they have one daughter--Mary M., and have lost one son, Arthur.