This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McNatt, McWilliams, Jackson, Maxwell, Powers, Hardy, Gibsa, Gibson, Simons, Leffler, McCracken, Peittsmeyer, Rowe , McMullen, Karmon Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4098.21 Message Board Post: 1. McNATT of Lacy Grove of Fremont county, Iowa a.-- Peter (sic) McNatt is completing a new barn.--Sun of Dec. 19, 1895. 2. Since Porter McNatt will figure in the posting for the McWilliams family, I am going to list his father's family instead: JOHN WESTER McNATT, b. about 1825 in Tennessee; married MARTHA JANE JACKSON, b. May 17, 1833 - d. June 15, 1887; married on January 15, 1851 in Des Moines county, Iowa. He appears in the Fremont county census reports for the first time in 1870.....Buried at Grandview cemetery. When their daughter Lydia Ann died in 1933, her obituary said she was survived by four sisters and two brothers. CHILDREN as far as known: 1. Lydia Ann, b. June 19, 1853 in Burlington, Iowa (she told the 1885 census enumerator that she had been born in Wapello county, Iowa !) - d. Nov. 5, 1933 in Burlington, Iowa; married Andrew Jackson Maxwell, b. Feb. 7, 1841 - d. July 2, 1914; md. on July 9, 1871 in Fremont county. During the Civil War, he served in Company "C", 7th Ill. Cavalry. The 1885 Iowa State Census shows him living in the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 29 township 69 range 42....Their farm was named "Five Oaks".....Buried at Sidney. 2. William C., born circa 1855; died after 1880. 3. Andrew J., b. circa 1857; married May M. Powers, b. circa 1863; md. on May. 3, 1878 in Fremont county. 4. Elizabeth E., b. circa 1859; md. William H. Hardy, b. circa 1846 - d. March 1, 19078 in Redding, California; married on April 9, 1876 in Fremont county. The 1885 Iowa State Census shows him living in the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 33 township 69 range 42 in Fremont county. 5. Porter N., b. June 1861; married Mrs. Amanda C. McWilliams, b. May 4, 1853 in Monroe county, Tennessee - d. Sept. 1, 1904; married on June 26, 1884 in Fremont county. She was the daughter of Robert and Betsy (Simons) Gibsa (Gibson?). Her obituary has been posted here on Rootsweb. The 1885 census locates their home as being over atwo miles northwest of Sidney, on the Sidney - Thurman road.....Her obituary is posted here on Rootsweb. 6. John Edward, b. Feb. 7, 1862 in Wapello county, Iowa - d. Nov. 12, 1933; md. Cynthia Jane Leffler, b. Jan. 21, 1867 - d. Oct. 16, 1934; md. on Dec. 8, 1886 by Elder George Weavers. Daughter of John and (2) Melinda (McCracken) Leffler. They lived in Benton township, Fremont county,Iowa. Buried at Grandview. 7. Cora M., b. 1864; md. Otto Peittsmeyer, b. in Germany circa 1857; md. on Mar. 17, 1884 by Leonard Worcester. Their marriage license does not name his parents. The 1885 Iowa State Census shows them living in the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 19 township 69 range 42. 8. Laura Adele "Delia", b. ca. 1866 - d. Aapr. 12, 1940; md. Samuel Wesley Summer Rowe, b. Nov. 2, 1860 d. Sept. 24, 1928 in Denton, Montana; md. on Sept. 29, 1884. The moved to Montana in 1913. 9. Olive Frances, b. ca. 1868; md. (1) __?__ Boyd. No information She married (2) John T. "Jack" McMullen, b. ca. 1872; md. on May 30, 1894 in Sidney. Son of John and Lucy V. (Karmon) McMullen. His parents in 1885 lived on the south part of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 11, township 69 range 42. 10. Rosa, b. May 1870 - d. after 1885.