CHAPTER VII.
PYMOSA TOWNSHIP (CONT'D).
Mention should be made of several other pioneers of Pymosa township whose names do not naturally fall into the general narrative. Charles W. Harris, with William Fox and J. M. Lamb, all came from Indiana with their families in the spring of 1856. Mr. Harris and Mr. Fox, his father-in-law, lived for some time at Five-Mile Grove, where the latter resided until his death. In 1858 Mr. Harris settled on section 18, where his widow and sons resided for many years. He died in 1859, his youngest son being born in the same year.
Albert T. Harris, a brother of Charles W., came to Cass county in the fall of 1856, but did not locate permanently in Pymosa township until 1861. In 1857 he pre-empted a piece of land in Brighton township, and bought twenty acres on section 27, of Pymosa -- land later owned by John W. Lamb, the son of Jonathan M., a pioneer of 1856. In 1861 Mr. Harris sold the Pymosa tract to the elder Lamb and bought a quarter section, comprising the north half of the southeast quarter and the south half of the northeast quarter of section 18, where he resided for twenty-one years and where four of his children were born. Mr. Harris served during the last year of the Civil War in the Eleventh Iowa Infantry.
William S. Everett, an Ohio man and married, although not yet of age, came to Pymosa township in May, 1857, in company with his brother, John. In January, 1862, they purchased eighty acres of land, which was afterward included in his homestead of 120 acres. On July 23, 1862, William S. Everett enlisted in Company I, Twenty-third Iowa Infantry, and served until the close of the war. He was at Fort Gibson, where his regiment opened the engagement, May 1, 1863. On the 16th of the same month he was at the battle of Champion Hill, and at Black River Bridge, where the Twenty-third again led the charge. In the latter engagement he was severely wounded. Mr. Everett campaigned in Texas during the fall of 1863, and participated in a portion of the Red River operations in the following spring. In the spring of 1865, he took part in the thirteen-days' siege of Spanish Fort; was in hospital during the siege of Vicksburg; at the time of Lee's surrender was in Alabama, but immediately afterward was ordered to Texas. After the war he went to Ohio and remained until the spring of 1870, when he returned to Cass county and settled on his farm. He never fully recovered from the hardships of his army experience.
"Compendium and History of Cass County, Iowa." Chicago: Henry and Taylor & Co., 1906, pp. 116-117.
Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, January, 2014.
