This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LANCASTER, HUGHES, PARR, GOOD Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Cl.2ADI/860 Message Board Post: John Wesley Lancaster, resides on the southwest quarter of section 17, Corydon Township, where he settled in the fall of 1853, a son of Bartlett and Mary Ann(Hughes)Lancaster, who came to Iowa in 1851, locating in Van Buren County, and a few years later removed to Wayne County, where they lived till their death. John Wesley Lancaster was born in Mercer County, Kentucky, December 23, 1825, and when a child removed with his parents to Franklin County. He left his native State in March 1849, coming to Burlington, Iowa, March 24. He resided in Dallas County a few months, when he returned to Kentucky, remaining there till 1850, when he returned to Iowa, and in the fall of 1851 settled in this county, locating on his present farm in the fall of 1853, since which time he has resided in this county with the exception of four years, during which time he lived in Ray County, Missouri. He was married in Van Buren County, Iowa, in 1851, to Louisa Parr, daughter of Morgan and Ann Par! r, natives of Indiana, who located at Bethlehem, this county, in the fall of 1851. Mr. Parr was a minister of the Christian church. He was the pioneer preacher of Wayne County, preaching the first sermon in Corydon. He died in Lucas County, Iowa, in November 1867, his wife dying at the home of her son-in-law, Mr. Lancaster, March 7, 1875. Mr. and Mrs. Lancaster are the parents of eight children-Thomas M., Mary A. (wife of James Good), Newton J., Edgar F., John L., Ella, William and Halmer. Mr. Lancaster is the only one of his father's family living in Wayne County. His only brother, William F. Lancaster, is living in Ray County, Missouri. Politically Mr. Lancaster is a Republican, casting his first presidential vote for General Taylor in 1848. Both he and his wife are members of the Baptist church. Mr. Lancaster has met with good success in his agricultural pursuits, and now owns 106 acres in his farm on section 17 and 18, beside a fine farm of 186 acres of land on s! ection 8 of Corydon Township. Biographical and Historical Record of Wayne and Appanoose Counties, P-477 Interstate Publishing Chicago 1886