This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Large, Tipton, Landrith, Yowell, Welch, Tipton, Foster, Lockett, Nelson, Cone, Bead, Stewart, Jones, Epperly Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4098.16 Message Board Post: 1. -- LARGE of Lacy Grove, Fremont county, Iowa a. -- Peter Large has been quite sick. -- SUN of Jan. 2, 1896. 2.-- FAMILY OF PETER LARGE as far as known: PETER KINGRY LARGE, b. Jan. 19, 1826 in Tennessee - d. Sept. 29, 1911 in Appanoose county, Iowa; married (1) LUCINDA TIPTON on Dec. 22, 1849 in Sangamon county, Illinois. She appears to have died about 1857.....The 1860 federal census for Sangamon county, page 635 shows: P. Large......39......Tennessee T. Large.......27......Tennessee S. (f).............9.......Illinois F. (f).............7.......Illinois J. (m)............5.......Illinois M. (f)............1........Illinois PETER LARGE married (2) TENNESSEE TIPTON, b. April 21, 1841 - d. Dec. 12, 1908 at Sedan, Appanoose county, Iowa. Marriage date unknown, but since she is shown as his wife in the above census, and since the one year old daughter is her child, a guess might be ventured that they were married about 1858. (In the 1900 Federal Census for Fremont county, we read that he has been married for 52 years, and that his wife was the mother of 10 children, all of whom were living.) Children (continued): 4. Mary Caroline (shown above), b. Jan. 8, 1859 - d. Apr. 16, 1938; md. Moses Ora Landrith, b. May 1859 - d. Feb. 10, 1925. Son of Jonathan O. and Martha Ann (Yowell) Landrith, and so was a first cousin of Edward S. Welch who founded the Welch nursuries in Shenandoah. In 1935, this family was living in Thurman. 5. Rebecca Jane, b. June 24, 1861 near Loami, Sangamon co., Ill - d. June 13, 1935; married (1) James Tipton who died in 1879. She md. (2) Hector S. Foster, b. 1851 - d. 1925; married circa 1890. 6. John D., b. Feb. 1864 - d. 1948; md. (1) Martha Ella Lockett, d. July 21, 1892; md. on Nov. 28, 1888 in Sidney, Iowa. Daugther of of George D. and Mary E. (Nelson) Lockett. He married (2) Lizzie Cone, b. 1877 - d.1946. They buried in the Salem cemetery, Appanoose county, Iowa. She was the daughter of Henry and Mary (Bead) Cone. 7. Amelia Ann, b. 1866 - d. 1951; married Thomas Jefferson Stewart, b. May 30, 1866 in Morgan county, Ill. - d. Mar. 27, 1952; married on Nov. 17, 1886 in Sidney. Son of Bryan and Elvira (Jones) Stewart. In 1935, they lived near Sidney. 8. William Henry, b. 1869 - d. 1946; md. Anna D. __?__, b. 1871 - d. 1927; buried in the Salem cemetery, Appanoose county, Iowa. In 1935, they were living at Exline, Iowa. 9. Martha Elizabeth, b. Oct. 1871 - died after 1935; married Jeremiah M. "Jerry" Lockett, b. Jan. 1862 - d. before 1925; married on Nov. 28, 1888, at which time he was a carpenter. Son of George Lockett and Mary E. Nelson. In 1935, she was living at Frederic, Wisconsin. 10. Cyrus A., b. Apr. 1873 - d. 1937; married Maggie Epperly, daughter of William and Lizzie (Cone) Epperly. In 1935, they were living at Exline, Iowa. 11. Oscar J., b. Apr. 1875. He was named when his sister Lillie drowned in the West Nishnabotna on July 4, 1900. 12. Ida. b. Nov. 1877 - d. after 1900. 13. Lilly Ann, b. July 1880 - d. July 4, 1900. Buried at Lacy Grove. Soon after Lilly's drowning, the Large family appear to have moved to Appanoose county, Iowa.