This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Polk, Mason, Mc Cain, Foote, Focht, Abbey, VanEaton, McManus, Cloud, Burke, Howard, Braden, Stubbs Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4098.25 Message Board Post: 1.--POLK of Lacy Grove, Fremont county, Iowa: a.-- C. H. Polk thrashed Monday; he used David Mason's machine.-- SUN of Jan. 9, 1896. b.-- C.H. Polk is preparing to build a new barn.--SUN of Feb . 6, 1896. c.-- L. L. Abbey visited the Polk's on Sunday.-- SUN of Feb. 13, 1896. d.-- C. H. Polk is having his well repaired.--SUN of Apr. 30, 1896. 2.-- This family is written up in THUMBPRINTS, page 306. 3.-- Family of CHARLES HENRY POLK as far as known: CHARLES HENRY POLK, b. October 20, 1849 in Prussia/Germany - d. January 28, 1937; married MARIETTA McCAIN, b. March 4, 1851 - d. Oct. 4, 1920; married on Feb . 10, 1873. Buried at Sidney, Iowa. Son of Albert Polk of Germany....In 1858, he immigrated to the United States.....In 1870 he moved to Iowa......In 1880, he was living in Fremont township, Page county, Iowa; his mother - in- law, Elizabeth McKeen (sic) was living with the family. In 1886, bought his farm in Lacy Grove.....In 1932, he was one of the three living Civil War veterans in Sidney (Otis Foote and A. J. Focht were the other two).......Marietta McCain is shown living with her mother in 1860, in Dahlonenga township, Wappelo county, Iowa. Buried in the Daglonega Cemetery in Wappelo county is one "L. McCain". Perhaps this is Marietta's father. CHILDREN: a--Jessie E., born Nov. 1873; married Lucius J. "Lute" Abbey, b. Nov. 16, 1866 at Manchester, Iowa ; married on June 26, 1895 at Lacy Grove. Son of Lon H. and Elizabeth (McManus) Abbey.....In 1907 moved to Worland, Wyoming......In 1913, was living at Woodbine, Iowa......1932, 1952 was living at Sioux City, Iowa. b.--Jennie, b. June 1876 - d. 1967; married Thomas C. Van Eaton, b. 1880 - d. 1946. Buried at Sidney. Son of William and Mary E. (Cloud) VanEaton........Their daughter Gwendolyn (VanEaton) Burke, born near Sidney on Oct. 23, 1912 - died Jan. 9, 1989 at Maywood, CA c.--Wayne Warden, b. Sept. 20, 1889 - d. Dec. 2, 1952; married Naomi Merle Howard, b. June 13, 1890 - d. July 6, 1972. Daughter of John A. Howard......The NONPAREIL of July 1, 1953 contains an article on Wayne Polk of Fremont county. d.--Warren M. "Ted", b. Sept. 1895; married Carrie Bell Stubbs, daughter of William H. and Ida B. (Braden) Stubbs. 4.-- H. L. McCain of Reno county, Kansas, is a brother of Mrs. C. H. Polk; he spent over 6 months in Andersonville prison, as a prisoner during the Civil War.--SUN of Feb. 20, 1902. 5.-- Mrs. Charles Polk and her brother L. G. McCain of Kansas are visiting a second brother in Aurora, Nebraska.--Nov. 24, 1905. 6.-- A nephew, William L. McCain, also lived in Lacy Grove according to Darby's outline of those mentioned in his column of Lacy Grove news in 1895 - 1896.