Arranged alphabetically by county. Within each county lists important agencies, court records, census records, and published sources to aid in local genalogical research.
The Author’s pioneer ancestors were early settlers in the western movement, sometimes trekking roughly cleared pathways behind teams of oxen. Family meetings and marriages at New Ipswich, NH, Watervliet, NY, New Castle, KY, Richmond, IN, Old Oxford, IL, Mt. Pleasant, IW, Firth, NE, and Denver, CO, form the basis of this historical and genealogy story. Family chronicles, deeds, wills, census records, tombstones and written biological sketches form the basis for this book. Research was conducted in 87 counties in 22 states from Maine to Colorado, and also Wales, Scotland and England, over a 16 year period.
Harry Vern Hull was born 9 Sep 1893 near Redding, Ringgold Co., Iowa to Oren Clemet Hull and Nina May Baird Hull. He married 15 Oct 1919 Vesper Beryl Fierce, the daughter of John Edwin Fierce and Jessamine Esther Strong Fierce. Vesper was born 10 Aug 1899 in Lucas Co., Iowa. Harry died 22 July 1967 at Humboldt, Humboldt Co., Iowa and is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery, Mount Ayr, Ringgold Co., Iowa. Vesper died 1 Feb 1983 also at Humboldt and is buried beside her husband. They were the parents of 2 children, Harry Vern Hull, Jr. and Patricia Mae Hull Fulton.