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Thomas SAID & Anna HARRIS

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Re: Thomas SAID & Anna HARRIS

Posted: 17 Jan 2008 1:19AM GMT
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"History of Jackson Co. IA, by James Elias,
Info: R.H. Buchner, "My father, Allen H. buchner, b. 28 Jun 1821, in Canada, and grew to manhood in that country. Afterward he crossed to the states and worked on the Erie and Welland canals for several seasons, after which he sailed on the lakes for several years and left the last boat to sailed on at the present city of Chicago, and crossing Illinois on foot, came to Iowa in 1844, where he made his home in Jackson Co. until 1876. He again moved to Kansas, where he lived a number of years, when old age and infirmity causec dhim to give up farming and he again returned to Jackson Co. and died at the home of his son, J.A. Buchner, in the city of Maquoketa, Feb. 14, 1894. He was married to Emily furnish, 8 Aug. 1845. My mother was b. in ILL., 19 April 1829, and d. 8 Sept. 1900. My grandfather, Thomas Furnish came across the river from the Galena lead mines in 1836. He was among the earliest pioneers who came to make a home in Iowa. He was b. 16 May 1803, and grew to manhood in KY and was married before leaving that state. Grandmother Furnish was a sister of Nathan Said, and was b. 6 May 1807. They raised a family six boys and four girls, all of where are living (1908), and are married and scattered over the western states, from Indian Territory to Oregon. My grandfather Furnish about 1856 crossed the MO and located in KS. At the time for our Civil War he was forced to leave KS on account of the guerrilla, warfare between MO and KS. He came back to IA and stayed until after the war and then again returned to KS, where he died at a ripe old age . Grandmother Furnish lived to join in the rush to OK, with her sons, who inherited the disposition of their father to be on th frontier, and she died in that territory at the age of but a little short of one hundred years.
Additional: Grandfather Furnish served in the Black Hawk war, playing a fife
in a military band was present at the Brown raid in Iowa known as the Bellevue War.

1830, Edgr Co. IL, p. 30
1840, Jackson Co. IA, pg. 299
1850, Brandon Twp. Jackson Co. IA


1832 Black Hawk War
1836 ame to Farmers Creek, Jackson Co. IA
1856 to N.E. KS - 1865 to IA - 187- to KS
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