Dennis Walter SHROYER

SHROYER, JONES, BULLIS, BLAKE

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Date: 7/28/2013 at 11:44:46

Dennis Walter [D. W.] Shroyer

D. W. Shroyer, carrying on general farming and stock-raising upon a quarter section of land on section 16, Reeve township, was born in Franklin county, December 28, 1858, a son of Lewis and Johannah F. (Jones) Shroyer, of whom further mention is made elsewhere in this work. Mr. Shroyer of this review was reared in Franklin county and acquired his education in the district schools. When he was about thirty years of age he moved to South Dakota and took up a homestead there. In 1888 he bought a farm of one hundred and twenty acres in Wright county, operating this for four years. When he sold it he returned to Franklin county and purchased a quarter of section 16, Reeve township, upon which he has since resided. He has made excellent improvements upon it, erecting new buildings and installing modern equipment and has made it a productive and valuable farm.

In 1885 Mr. Shroyer married Miss Melinda Bullis, who has passed away. They became the parents of a daughter, Lulu May, who died at the age of eleven. Mr. Shroyer afterward married Miss Kathryn Blake, a native of Franklin county, and to this union have been born four children: Lewis Blake, whose natal day was August 31, 1901; Grace Joan, who was born February 5, 1903; Raymond Allison, born December 30, 1904; and Willard Martin, born July 5, 1906. Mr. Shroyer attends the Methodist church and gives his political allegiance to the republican party. He is one of the most progressive and active farmers of Reeve township - a man whom Franklin county is proud to number among her native sons.

History of Franklin County, Iowa, by I. L. Stuart. 2 vols. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1914.