This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Landreth, Welch, May, Thompson, Nevins, Bruner, Yowell, Williams, Large, Sitton Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4098.15 Message Board Post: 1. LANDRETH of Lacy Grove, Fremont county, Iowa a.-- Ivory Landreth visited Hamburg last Saturday.--Sun of 12/26/1895. b.-- Uncle Hiram Landreth has been quite ill for the last 2 or 3 weeks.--Sun of 1/9/1896 c.-- L. N. Landreth is suffering with severe headaches.--Sun of 5/7/1896. 2.--a.--Be sure to Google "Landreth". You will soon see a posting that declares the Landreth Seed and Nursery Company to be one of the oldest in the United States. (The Landreth family in Lacy Grove was closely related to both the Welch and Earl May seed and nursery people of Shenandoah!? The date of their founding is after that of the Landreth company's.) Is there any connection? b.-- Repeat your search on Google, this time by typing in "Jonathan Landreth" (keep the quotation marks for your search). On the first page of postings which come up, you will see "Jonathan Landreth/Mary Thompson" of Macoupin county, Illinois. Undoubtedly, this posting is about the father of Hiram and Jonathan Landreth. brothers, who settled in Lacy Grove. 3.--HIRAM T. LANDRETH, born May 9, 1822 in Union county, Illinois -d. October 6, 1907 in Lacy Grove, Fremont county, Iowa; married EXONA NEVINS, b. Apr. 12, 1827 - d. Dec. 17, 1887; married on July 14, 1844 in Macoupin county, Illinois....They are buried in Lacy Grove Cemetery...Hiram was the oldest of eleven children of Jonathan and Mary Landreth. Besides his brother Jonathan of Fremont county, he left one brother living in Kansas, from a family of 11 children.....In 1860 they were living in Macoupin county, Illinois; in 1885, on the east half of the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 17 in Lacy Grove. CHILDREN as far as known: a.--Clarinda J., b. circa 1848; married John Bruner. In 1905, they lived in Goodland, Kansas. b.-- Leander N., b. circa 1857; married Louella Landreth (his cousin), b. in 1857 in Macoupin county, Illinois - d. June 19, 1934; married on Feb. 10, 1878.....They came to Fremont county in 1885....Buried at Lacy Grove....Daughter of Jonathan Landreth and Martha Yowell. (For the family of Martha (Yowell) Landreth, see the posting here on Roosweb.) c.-- An unknown son who was living in 1907. d.-- Child who died in childhood. e.-- Child who died in childhood. 4.-- JONATHAN O. LANDRETH, b. 1832 in Virginia - d. after 1909; married MARTHA ANN YOWELL, b. Aug. 23, 1832 in Putnam county, Indiana - d. March 14, 1909; married on April 10, 1856. Daughter of James and Emily (Williams) Yowell....Buried in Lacy Grove Cemetery, Fremont county, Iowa....She moved to Illinois in 1850, and then to Fremont county in 1889.....Her nephew, Edward S. Welch, founded Mt. Arbor Nurseries in Shenandoah; Welch's daughter Gertrude married Earl E. May who founded KMA radio station, the seed and nursery company of that name, and that company's television station in Omaha, Nebraska. CHILDREN as far as known: a.-- Louella, b. Feb . 13, 1857 in Macoupin co. Ill. - d. June 19, 1934; married her first cousin, Leander Landreth on Feb. 10, 1878.....He was the son of Hiram and Exona (Nevins) Landreth....They lived five miles northwest of Sidney. They had lived in South Dakota before moving to Fremont county in 1884....Buried in Lacy Grove Cemetery, Fremont county, Iowa. b.-- Moses Ora, b. May 1859 - d. Feb. 10, 1925; married Mary Caroline Large, b. Jan . 8, 1859 in Morgan county, Illinois - d. Apr. 16, 1938...Buried at Lacy Grove. c.-- Mary Olivia, b. March 1862 - d. after her husband; married John Harding Sitton, b. Feb . 7, 1858 in Scott county, Illinois - d. Aapr. 28, 1917; married in 1881 in Morgan county, Illinois. Lived 4 miles northwest of Sidney.....Came to Fremont county in 1889.....Their son Jesse L. Sitton was elected sheriff at Sidney, Nebraska in 1916....Buried at Lacy Grove. d.-- Noah H., b. Sept. 5, 1873 in Morgan county, Illinois - d. Feb. 3, 1952. Unmarried. Buried at Lacy Grove. 5.-- Ivory Landreth of Lacy Grove: He has not been identified, but it would be likely that he were a nephew of Hiram and Jonathan Landreth.