- JOHN WHITEHEAD (deceased), one of the pioneer settlers of
Green county, and a man well
- remembered for his many good qualities, was born in Ohio
Aug. 25, 1825, and died at his country home in this county in
1879. Mr. WHITEHEAD was one of the four sons of Edward and Delilah
(HAWK) WHITEHEAD, the others being William, Levi and Henry.
- John WHITEHEAD was married Feb. 16, 1860, to a Miss ISEMINGER,
a native of Ohio, and a
- daughter of Joseph and Sarah (BEATEY) ISEMINGER. They were
the parents of the following family: Hattie, Sarah (who is Mrs.
John WHITEHEAD), Mary, Jane, Levi, Rebecca, Frank, Martha, John
and Alice. Joseph ISEMINGER, the father of the above family,
is still living in Graysville, Tenn., at the advanced age of
eighty-eight years. Mr. and Mrs. John WHITEHEAD became the parents
of the following children: Emma is the wife of Charles PALMER,
a farmer in the town of Cadiz; William has charge of the old
homestead; Isaac is a farmer in the town of Clarno; Minnie is
the wife of Louis WOLF, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Effie Jane is
the wife of Ira LONG, of South Wayne, Wis.; and Milton is a farmer
in the town of Cadiz.
- John WHITEHEAD was a man of ability and attained a very considerable
success in farming,
- beginning as a poor boy, and at the time of his death, Jan.
6, 1879, owning 300 acres of very fine farming land in Green
county, making a choice farm, well-improved, and provided with
good buildings. His success was not an accident, nor the result
of the help of friends, though he had many, but it came from
hard work and careful and persistent savings; it came from his
development of a trustworthy character; it came very largely
from the helpful cooperation of his good wife and loyal children.
All worked together, and after a time they secured their handsome
and attractive country home. When Mr. WHITHEAD settled on his
farm it was covered with timber, and was barren of all improvements.
Today it is one of the most desirable country estates in the
southern part of the State.
- Mr. WHITEHEAD was a stanch Democrat, and was a man of much
character and resolution.
- Well liked by his neighbors, he was upright and honorable
in all his dealings. Mrs. WHITEHEAD retains eighty acres of land
in the town of Cadiz, from which she receives a cash rental of
$225. She has lately removed to Browntown, Wis., where she has
made herself a pleasant home, buying a neat and attractive village
property. A devoted and faithful member of the United Brethren
Church, she is known as a good Christian woman, and commands
the unstinted respect and esteem of all who know her.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; pp. 467-468.
-
- Courtesy of Carol.
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