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Title: History of Chickasaw and Howard counties, Iowa
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Fairbairn, Robert Herd S.J. Clarke Publishing Company
Subjects: Chickasaw County (Iowa) -- History Chickasaw County (Iowa) -- Biography Howard County (Iowa) -- History Howard County (Iowa) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago : S. J. Clarke publishing company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ara,Ontario county, Canada, on the 18th of January, 1832, and passed away at Crescoon the 15th of November, 1916, so that he had reached the notable old age of eighty-four years at the time of his demise. He was a son of Jacob and Margaret (Dell)Everingham. His father was of English descent and birth and after coming to thenew world established his home at Niagara, Ontario county, where he followed theoccupation of farming. He afterward crossed the border into the United States and tookup his abode at Freeport, Illinois, where he also carried on farming for sometime. Still attracted by the opportunities of the west, he later made his way toDubuque, Iowa, and subsequently became a resident of Wagner, Polk county, Iowa.During the period of his residence there he lived retired, making his home withhis son, Barsnette D. Everingham. His wife died near Lawler, Iowa, at the homeof her son William. Mr. Everingham was a democrat in his political views andin his fraternal relations was a Mason.
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BARSNETTE DELL EVERINGHAM CHICKASAW AND HOWARD COUNTIES 29 Barsnette D. Everingham of this review spent his boyhood days in Canada,and in Freeport, Illinois, to the age of fourteen years, when in 1846 he removedto Dubuque, Iowa, and later became a resident of Wagner, where he continueduntil after the outbreak of the Civil war. Aroused by the attempt of the southto overthrow the Union, he offered his services to the government in 1862 andjoined the Boys in blue of the Thirty-eighth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, with whichhe served until 1865. He was made a sergeant in 1864 and later was advanced tothe rank of second lieutenant. He participated in the siege of Vicksburg, in theexpedition to Jackson, Mississippi, in the pursuit of General Johnson, in the captureof Brownsville, Texas, in the siege of Fort Morgan on Mobile bay and in the battleof Blakeley, Alabama, which was the last engagement of the war. He was a braveand loyal soldier, always faithful to his duties, performing any task that

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