Mary Terrill Bawden (the younger)

BAWDEN, TERRILL, ILES

Posted By: Carol Bawden (email)
Date: 4/3/2007 at 13:58:57

MARY TERRILL BAWDEN, daughter of Stephen and Mary Terrill Bawden, born 9 May 1851 in Norristown, Montgomery County, PA. She moved to Rockingham Township (Davenport) with her parents Stephen and Mary Terrill Bawden, when she was 9 yo. She attended Davenport schools. She married John Lowery Iles on 7 February 1871 in Davenport, Scott County, IA. In the 1880 federal census, they share their home with 18 yo servant Sophia Runge, born in Holstein, Germany of Holstein, German parents. John was born 15 September 1848 in Midway, KY to Thomas Jefferson and Maria Louisa Nuckols Iles. Dr. Thomas Jefferson Iles moved to Davenport to be near his sons during the Civil War. He decided being a doctor would put him near the action and was assigned to the Rock Island Arsenal. He was born 17 March 1811 in Jessamine, KY. and died 27 November 1889 in Davenport. He is buried in Oakdale with Maria.

The 1880 census says 32 yo John is a painter. John was treasurer and manager until 1908 of Riverside Milling Co. at 804 E. Front St (now River Drive – a Wonder Bread factory closed for bankruptcy in 2005). Then he became president of Valley Place Investment Co. He lived in the family home at 614 E. 13th St. until 1917 when he moved to Magnolia Springs, Baldwin County, AL, where he died 17 December 1939.
Mary cared for her mother after her father’s death. Mary 43 yo died on 6 February 1894. She and John are buried in Oakdale Memorial Gardens Sect 2 Lot 169. They were members of the Methodist Church.