Extracted from "The History of Cedar Co., Ia. 1878":
Soesbe, Samuel, retired farmer, Section 7; Post Office Mechanicsville; born in Kentucky, May 27, 1800; came to this county in 1839; owns forty-one acres. He has gone to mill seven miles north of Dubuque, it being the nearest place, to have his grinding done. He married Miss E. [Eleanor] Shintaffer in October, 1844; she was born in Ohio, and died in 1850. He afterward married Mary A. Chapman, who was born in Connecticut; he has six children living--William, Phillip, Daniel, James, Mary E., and Jane. Mrs. Soesbe has one son by former marriage, W. Chapman, the present Postmaster of Mechanicsville.
Extracted from "The History of Cedar Co., Ia. 1878":
Soesbe, Samuel, retired farmer, Section 7; Post Office Mechanicsville; born in Kentucky, May 27, 1800; came to this county in 1839; owns forty-one acres. He has gone to mill seven miles north of Dubuque, it being the nearest place, to have his grinding done. He married Miss E. [Eleanor] Shintaffer in October, 1844; she was born in Ohio, and died in 1850. He afterward married Mary A. Chapman, who was born in Connecticut; he has six children living--William, Phillip, Daniel, James, Mary E., and Jane. Mrs. Soesbe has one son by former marriage, W. Chapman, the present Postmaster of Mechanicsville.
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