Residents of the Settlement of Galland’s Grove, Pottawattamie/Shelby County
Residents
Luke Johnson may have been in the current Shelby County area on October 9, 1850, when he began the enumeration of Galland’s Grove. Only five families were interviewed that day, dwelling numbers 743 through 748. The following day, October 10, dwelling numbers 749 through 760 were interviewed.
#743 William Jordon (age 46) (William Jordan)
Mary (wife) (age 33) (Mary Elizabeth Galland)
Surrilda (age 16) (Serelda Jordan)
Hartwell (age 13) (Hartwell Benjamin Jordan)
Wodson (age 12) (Abel Woodson Jordan)
Perry (age 10) (W. Perry Jordan)
Minerva (age 8) (Amy Minerva Jordan)
Hannah (age 6) (Hannah Jordan)
Joseph (age 3) (Joseph Almon Jordan)
Hyrum (age 1) (Hyrum S. Jordan)
John Jordan (born 1852)
George Jordan (born 1853)
William Jordan was the son-in-law of Abel Galland. He was called “Uncle Billy.” He was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints while living in Nauvoo. He moved his family to Galland’s Grove in about 1847. By the 1860 U. S. Census, the family was in Onawa City, Boyer, Monona County, Iowa. He died in 1889 and was living in Deloit, Crawford County, Iowa.
#744 Solomon Hancock (age 25)
Jane (wife) (age 25) (Eliza Jane Thompson)
Wilson (age 8/12 m) (Wilson Overton Hancock)
Melvina Helen Hancock (born 2 May 1853)
Solomon Hancock was the son Joseph and Betsey Johnson Hancock. He died in 1859 while living at Galland’s Grove.
#745 Thomas Hancock (age 61)
Hannah (wife) (age 45) (Anna Boyce)
Abigail Hancock (died 1842)
John (age 7) (John Adams Hancock)
Benjamin Hancock (died 1847)
Lavina Hancock (died 1846)
Daniel (age 1) (Daniel Robert Hancock)
Thomas Hancock was born January 25, 1788, in Hampden County, Massachusetts. Thomas and Amy Ward Hancock. While in Nauvoo, in 1841, he married Anna Boyce. Four children were born while living in Nauvoo. The oldest child was buried there. There the fifth and last child was born in Galland’s Grove on February 6, 1849. His name was Daniel Robert Hancock. Thomas died before his child was born. He died on January 4, 1848.
#746 William Felshaw (age 50)
Mary (wife) (age 42) (Mary Harriet Gilbert)
John (age 13) (John Earl Felshaw)
Anna Maria Felshaw (died January 15, 1848)
Lucy (age 8) (Lucy Rachel Felshaw)
Caroline (age 5)
Olive (age 1) (Hannah Olive Felshaw)
Sarah Felshaw (born February 3, 1851)
Susannah Felshaw (born February 3, 1851)
William Felshaw was an early resident of the Galland’s Grove area. He was born February 3, 1800 in Granville, Washington County, New York. William was one of the chief carpenters in building the Kirtland Temple. He was also a foreman for the woodwork in the Nauvoo Temple. He had moved to Galland’s Grove by the Spring of 1848.
Charlotte Walters (wife) (age 22)
Catherine (age 5) (Catherine Felshaw)
Polly (age 2) (Mary Amanda Felshaw)
Eleanor Felshaw (born October 14, 1851)
Lorenza Rudd (age 22) (Lorenzo Dow Rudd)
Julia (wife) (age 18) Julia Felshaw (daughter of William and Mary Harriet Gilbert Felshaw)
Lorenza Rudd was the seventh child of Erastus and Experience Wheeler Rudd. He met and married Julia Felshaw, the daughter of William and Mary Harriet Gilbert Felshaw while residing at Galland’s Grove.
#748 Reuben Strong (age 30) (Reuben William Strong)
Hannah (wife) (age 26) (Hannah F. Galland)
Joseph (age 4)
Hyrum (age 8/12 m) (Hiram Robert Strong)
Hannah F. Galland was the daughter of Abel and Amy Furby Galland. She was born on August 23, 1822, in Preble County, Ohio. She married Reuben William Strong in 1841 while living in Nauvoo. Reuben was born on April 20, 1820, in New York, to John and Luany Hoard Strong. They had two sons, Joseph and Hiram Robert, who were both born in Galland’s Grove. They family left for the Salt Lake Valley in 1852. Hannah died of cholera near the Loup River in Platte County, Nebraska Territory. Reuben went on to the Valley. Joseph passed away not long after and Reuben eventually returned to Iowa and then established his final home in Nebraska.
#749 Cornelius Durham (age 52) (Cornelius Dunham)
Sophronia Esther Blake (died January 12, 1839)
Cornelius (age 19) (Cornelius Dunham)
Sophroni (age 15) (Sophronia Dunham)
Cornelius Dunham was born December 5, 1796, in Tisbury, Massachusetts. He was the youngest son of nine children. He parents were Cornelius and Tabitha Hancock Dunham. As a young person, he left home and traveled through Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Virginia, and the Carolinas. He married Sophronia Esther Blake on November 26, 1822, in White County, Illinois. She was the daughter of David and Lucretia Lovica Evans Blake. The couple had five children. Sophronia died in 1839 when her youngest child was just two years old. Cornelius then married Margaret Scott and they had seven children.
#750 John Cummings (age 48)
Rachael (wife) (age 36) (Rachael Carnady)
Mary (age 17) (Mary Jane Cummings)
William (age 15) (William Morrell Cummings)
Isaac (age 13) (Isaac Babe Cummings)
Sarah (age 11) (Sarah Ann Cummings)
Malinda (age 9) (Melinda Ann Cummings)
Nancy (age 6) (Nancy Elizabeth Cummings)
John (age 4) (John James Cummings)
Harmon (age 6/12 m) (Harmon William Cummings)
Thomas Cummings (born and died 1852)
John Cummings was born December 2, 1802, in Anderson County, South Carolina. He met Rachael Carnady in Tennessee where he married her in 1834. Five children were born while living there. The missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints met the family and they were converted to the faith. They moved to Nauvoo, Illinois and there had a daughter named Nancy Elizabeth. When they left with the Saints, they had another child on the way west in Lee County, Iowa. His name was John James Cummings. Their next two children, Harmon William and Thomas were born in Galland’s Grove. The family joined the Uriah Curtis Company traveling west. They eventually settled in Heber City, Utah.
#751 Abel Galland (age 61)
Amy (wife) (age 59) (Amy Furby)
Amy (age 12) (Amy Melvina Galland) (daughter of David & Druscilla Dragoo)
Benjamin (age 10) (Benjamin Furby Galland) (son of David & Druscilla Dragoo Galland)
William (age 8) (William Wallace Galland) (son of David & Druscilla Dragoo Galland)
Perthenia (age 6) (Perthenia Evaline Galland) (daughter of David & Druscilla Dragoo Galland)
John (age 4) (John Clinton Galland) (son of David & Druscilla Dragoo Galland)
Lewis Jackson Galland (born December 15, 1847) (son of David & Druscilla Dragoo Galland)
Abel Galland was born March 9, 1787, in New Jersey. He served in the War of 1812. He married Amy Furby in Washington County on November 28, 1808. They had 4 sons and 3 daughters. Five of the children lived to adulthood. Abel was the first settler of Galland’s Grove. He came to the area in about 1847.
War of 1812 documents for Abel Galland
#752 Durssilla Galland (age 29) (Druscilla Dragoo Galland)
Druscilla Gragoo Galland was the wife of David Galland. David was the oldest child of Abel Galland. David died in 1852 at Galland’s Grove.
#753 Benjamin Galland (age 29) (Benjamin Furby Galland)
Maria (wife) (age 21) (Maria Louise Allen)
Benjamin Furby Galland was the third child and second son of Abel and Amy Furby Galland. He was born January 21, 1821, in Daniel County, Indiana. Maria Louise Allen came to Galland’s Grove with her parents, Charles and Eliza Tibbetts Allen. Benjamin and Maria were married March 18, 1850, in Galland’s Grove.
#754 William Galland (age 24) (William M. Galland)
Malvin (wife) (age 20) (Melvina Amanda Allen)
Abel (age 11/12 m) (Abel Childs Galland)
William H. Galland (born March 1852)
William M. Galland was the fourth son of Abel and Amy Furby Galland. He was born on January 23, 1827, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. He married Melvina Amanda Allen, the daughter of Charles and Eliza Tibbetts Allen and sister of Maria Louise Allen. They were married in 1849.
#755 Louis Jackson (age 43) (Lewis John Jackson)
Margaret (wife) (age 34) (Hannah Margaret Crandall)
Walter (age 16)
Sarah (age 14)
Hannah (age 12)
Alfred (age 9) (Alfred Wallace Jackson)
Lafayette (age 7)
Mary (age 4) (Mary J. Jackson)
Ann (age 1)
Andrew Jackson (born June 17, 1850)
Lewis Jackson was born February 26, 1808, in Cayuga County, Ohio. He married Hannah Margaret Crandall, the daughter of John and Magdalene Wood Crandall. They were married in about 1832.
#756 Medad Thompson
Phoebe Thomson (wife) (age 39) (Phebe Burnham Hobart)
Calvin (age 15) (Calvin William Thompson) (married Amy Melvina Galland)
Hyrum (age 13) (Hiram Almanza Thompson)
Elvira Thompson
Harriet (age 7) (Harriet Asenath Thompson)
Louisa (age 5) (Louisa Ann Thompson)
Malvin (age 3) (James Melvin Thompson)
George (age 1) (George Brown Thompson)
Sephrona Thompson (born March 29, 1853)
Medad Thompson, called Uncle Medad, was born in Herkimer County, New York, on March 22, 1800. He married Phebe Burnham Hobart while living in Pennsylvania in about 1824. The family was living in Galland’s Grove in 1850 but Medad was absent in the 1850 U. S. Census. He had gone to California where he stayed for two years before returning to Iowa.
#757 Edward Thomson (age 21) (Edmund Hobart Thompson)
Frances (wife) (age 18) (Frances Rachel Welborn)
Edmund H. Thompson was the son of Medad and Phebe Burnham Hobart Thompson. He married Frances Rachel Welborn. Edmund’s family came west with an unknown Company in about 1852.
#758 Joseph Hancock (age 54)
Experience (wife) (age 56)
Amy (age 14)
Experience Wheeler, born December 21, 1792, in Cheshire, New Hampshire, was first married to James Hobart. He died in 1813. She next married Erastus Rudd. Erastus died in 1834. Experience then married Joseph Hancock in 1835 while living in Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph and Experience had one daughter, Amy Experience Hancock, born May 12, 1835, while they were living in Clay County, Missouri.
John Rudd (age 20) (John Randal Rudd)
Sydney (age 18) (Sidney Rigdon Rudd)
John and Sidney were sons of Experience Wheeler and Erastus Rudd.
#759 Franklin Rudd (age 26) (Amander Franklin Rudd)
Lovea (wife) (age 24) (Elvira Louisa Chandler)
Sarah (age 2) (Sarah Elizabeth Rudd)
Julia (age 6/12 months) (Julia Elvira Rudd)
Franklin Rudd was born December 26, 1824, in Erie County, Pennsylvania. His parents were Erastus and Experience Wheeler Rudd. He married Elvira Louisa Chandler in Cheshire County, New Hampshire on August 12, 1846. They had a total of ten children. Two were born at Galland’s Grove—Sarah Elizabeth and Julia Elvira. Their family moved to Dow City, Crawford County, Iowa where the rest of the children were born. Franklin drowned in the Boyer River near Dow City in 1900.
Sarah Chandler (age 69) (Sarah Barrett Chandler)
Sarah Barrett Chandler was the mother of Elvira Louisa Chandler. Her husband, Asa Chandler, had died in 1831 while they were living in Cheshire County, New Hampshire. Sarah died in Galland’s Grove, only a month after the 1850 U. S. Census was enumerated.
OTHER GALLAND'S GROVE PIONEERS
By the 1860 U. S. Census, the number of families in or the vicinity of Galland’s Grove had grown to 54. Although Latter-day Saint settlers probably came to the area prior to 1854, the town became a primary settlement of members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Alexander and Martha Roundy Black
Alexander Black was a boy of twelve, when he became the youngest charter member of the Galland's Grove Branch. He was born September 29, 1847, in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, the son of Malinda J Black and her first husband. Alexander came to Galland's Grove with his mother and stepfather. In August 1872, Alexander married Martha J. Roundy. She was born September 6, 1850. They became the parents of fourteen children. Of Alexander it was said, “His heart, his hand, and his house were always open to those who stood in need…neighbors sought his counsel with the utmost confidence in his judgement (1).” He became one of the ablest fruit growers in Shelby County, with particular interest in the growing of apples and pears. As early as 1877, he had a fine orchard. Martha died March 14, 1901. Alexander died June 5, 1914, survived by ten of his children.
Eli and Caroline Clothier
Eli was born February 4, 1833, in Welland, Ontario. He married Caroline Strohm in about 1853. She was also born in Ontario. They migrated across Michigan to Crawford County, Iowa in 1861. The same year, William and Caroline came to Galland's Grove. They purchased fifty acres of land in Grove Township. Eli cut the timber from the land and made fence rails for himself and his neighbors. He purchased his first cow with fence rails. In fact, fence rails were the common medium of exchange among the neighbors. After breaking the virgin soil, Eli planted his first corn patch with a hoe. He farmed this land for six years and then disposed of it and bought fifty acres on the open prairie. On this land, he built a rude log house where family lived for the next ten years, adding more acreage and improvements as time passed. Eli moved to Kansas in 1898. Caroline died in Phillips County, Kansas on September 8, of that year. Eli married Mary Ellen Jackson in 1902. Mary Ellen passed away in Nebraska in 1911 and Eli moved to Oregon, where he died October 31, 1915 (2).
Lehi and Mattie Clothier
Lehi was the son of Eli and Caroline Strohm Clothier, he was born in Galland’s Grove in 1862 and received his education in Phillips County, Kansas, where he remained under the parental roof until 1888. At that time, he purchased a farm in Phillips County where he lived for five years, returning finally to his old home in Shelby County. There, in 1898, he married Mattie Ann Holcomb, daughter of Harmon Charlton and Elnora “Nora” Ann Holcomb, and operated her farm of 235 acres, making it one of the most attractive farms of the township (3). The Clothiers became the parents of four children: Homer Vernon, Cecil Leroy, Zeta Gertrude, and Wesley Iven. Lehi and Mattie lived many years in their comfortable home, admired by all for their kindly dispositions. Mattie Ann died in 1925 and Lehi in 1933, both in Crawford County, Iowa.
David C. and Mary Ellen Harding Crandall
David was born in Clay County, Missouri, April 15, 1835. He came with his parents in 1852 to Galland's Grove. He married Mary Ellen Harding of Ames, Iowa, April 12, 1865. She was born October 3, 1849, in Indiana. They became the parents of ten children. When David died August 22, 1911, three children had preceded him in death. Mary Ellen died March 25, 1917. Burial was in the Holcomb Cemetery.
Daniel and Parintha Abbott Crandall
Daniel was born August 26, 1808, in New York. His wife, Parintha Abbott, was born January 12, 1817, in Hartford County, Massachusetts. He died at Galland's Grove October 26, 1883. Parintha died January 18, 1885.
Jacob and Jane Newberry Crandall
Jacob passed through the bitter experiences with the Saints in Missouri from 1832 to 1839. In Clay County he had married Jane Newberry on December 5, 1833. They became the parents of ten children. From Missouri they followed the familiar path to Illinois and, in 1847, across Iowa. Jacob died at his home in Panama, Iowa, September 3, 1892, at the age of ninety-one survived by his aged wife.
Patrick and Delilah Smith Crandall
Patrick was born November 22, 1810, in Seneca County, New York. He married Delilah Smith June 4, 1830, at Chagrin Falls, Ohio. The family located in Galland's Grove in 1854, and Shelby County continued to be their home until his death September 4, 1894. He died at the home of his daughter, Ann McCord, near Defiance, Iowa. He was survived by his wife, his daughter, and two sons.
George and Mary Greenwood
George was born October 22, 1832, at Preston, Lancashire, England. He was the youngest child of George and Sarah Rigby Greenwood. On November 25, 1840, he joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He married Mary Knowles February 17, 1855, and in that same year they emigrated to America and Ogden, Weber County, Utah. They had eight children. Six of them died while living in Ogden, four in 1868. The remainder of the family moved to Galland’s Grove where they spent their last years. Mary died in 1904, and George died on July 17, 1909, at the home of his son, Joseph.
Joel and Emiline Martin Hall
Instead of going west, Joel went to St. Louis. In 1852, he came to Kanesville and then in 1859 moved to Cass Township, Shelby County, Iowa. Joel was born December 15, 1799, in New Castle County, Delaware. While living in Delaware, Joel married Emiline Martin in 1826. They had four children. At Joel’s death on September 1, 1882, at Galland's Grove, he was survived by his wife, a son, David, and a daughter, Mrs. Mary Emma Blakeslee. Emiline died in February 1887 at Leland’s Grove, Shelby County, Iowa.
John Pierce and Sylvia Johnson Hawley
John was born in Hancock County, Illinois March 4, 1826. He joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in July 1837 at Ray County, Missouri. He moved to Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, with his parents during the exodus from Missouri. In 1843 he went with Lyman Wight and George Miller to the Wisconsin pineries to cut lumber for the Nauvoo Temple and the Nauvoo House. After the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith, he migrated to Texas with Lyman Wight in 1845. He married Sylvia Johnson on October 22, 1849, in Fredricksburg, Texas. She was born May 27, 1832, in Wayne County, Michigan, and went with her family and Lyman Wight to Texas where she met John. They left the Wight colony in about 1857 and journeyed to Utah, where they resided for several years. Seven of their twelve children were born in Pine Valley, Washington County, Utah. They returned to Iowa in about 1872 and their last two children were born in Galland’s Grove. John taught school, farmed, and owned an interest in a sawmill at Galland's Grove. John died of pneumonia at Lamoni, Decatur County, Iowa on April 17, 1909, at the home of his son, Eber Pierce. At the time, he was attending General Conference of the RLDS Church. Four children had preceded him in death. After John's death, Sylvia continued to live at Galland's Grove until 1901, when she moved to Holden, Missouri, with several of her children. She died there on January 26, 1927.
Chauncey S. and Mary Menamento Wight Holcomb
Chauncey came to Iowa with his parents in 1854 and located at Galland's Grove. He was the youngest son of Oliver Ellsworth and Sarah, “Sally” Duntley Holcomb, born August 10, 1844, in Ashtabula County, Ohio. He married Mary Menamento Wight on September 17, 1867. They became the parents of seven children. Mary died about 1896; three of her children preceded her in death. Chauncy resided with his sister, Bertha Adele Holcomb, and her husband, Romanan Wight, for a short time in Dow City. At the time of his death January 9, 1917, he was living with his son, Drayton, at Galland's Grove. He was survived by Drayton Ancil, Romanan, and two daughters, Sarah Ann Durkee and Helen Mary Jenkins.
Oliver Ellsworth and Mary L. Hawley Holcomb
Oliver was born in Ashtabula, Ohio, 0n February 21, 1841. On December 25, 1873, he married Mary L. Hawley, the daughter of George and Ann Hadfield Hawley. They became the parents of four children. At Mary's death, the children were Goliver Ellsworth Hawley of Minneapolis, Leslie Lewis Holcomb of Dow City and Gertrude Edith S. Holcomb Cobb (Henry Aaron) of Dunlap, Iowa. In 1896, Oliver married Mrs. Elizabeth Hannah Kemp Taylor of Independence, Missouri where he died November 29, 1914. The funeral was held at Galland's Grove.
Alexander and Mary Baird Hunt
Alexander was born on March 9, 1792, and Mary Baird on May 15, 1795, both in Roan County, North Carolina. They came to Nauvoo after they joined the Church. The Hunts left Nauvoo in 1846 in the general exodus but withdrew from the westward trek and made their home in various locations in Iowa. They settled in Galland's Grove in 1855. He died November 21, 1873. Mary was blind the last thirteen years of her life. She died at the home of her son, John B. Hunt, at Galland's Grove.
John B. and Mary Elizabeth Lundström Franklin Hunt
John was born November 26, 1832, in Barren County, Kentucky. He married Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Lundström Franklin on February 1, 1877. She was the widow of Thomas J. Franklin. Mary was born October 31, 1833, near Lund, Sweden, emigrating to America in 1856. John died June 10, 1892. He was mourned by many friends, as evidenced by a funeral procession of sixty-nine teams and buggies wending their way to the Holcomb Cemetery (4). Mary died fifteen years later on October 27, 1907, at Harlan, Iowa.
Alfred Wallace and Martha M. Holcomb Jackson
Alfred was born July 9, 1841, in Van Buren County, Iowa. He was seven when he came to Galland's Grove with his parents, Lewis John and Hannah Margaret Crandall He enlisted in the Civil War on October 3, 1860 and served until July 21, 1865. He married Martha M. Holcomb a few weeks before his enlistment, on September 18, 1860. He died on June 10, 1922. His wife, Martha, died March 4, 1924, at the home of her son, Andrew Lafayette Jackson, at Dow City. The surviving children were Willard L. Jackson of Independence, Missouri; Almond Frank Jackson of Dunlap, Iowa; and Frederick F. Jackson of Dennison, Iowa.
Ralph Jenkins and Mary Ann Hobart Wight Jenkins
Mary Ann was born in Marion, Indiana, October 16, 1828 to Otis Billings and Sophronia Holman Hobart. She became a member of the Church in 1842 at Kirtland, Ohio. She went with her husband, Lyman Wight and her parents to Texas as part of the Lyman Wight Party. Lyman died in Texas in 1858. Mary Ann returned to Iowa in 1860 as a widow and mother of three children, one dying in infancy in Texas. With her was a daughter Carema Otis and a son, Rolliando. In 1865, she married Ralph Jenkins, Sr. Ralph was born August 22, 1815, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Mary Ann died February 17, 1897, and was survived by her husband, son who was living in Durango, Colorado and a daughter in Galland's Grove. Ralph died on January 5, 1900.
Milton and Elizabeth McCord Lynch
Milton was born on October 28, 1828. As a boy, he lived with his parents in Far West, Missouri. Driven from Missouri, they followed the familiar path via Nauvoo to Kanesville. In 1852, at Kanesville, Milton married Elizabeth McCord, eldest daughter of Alexander McCord, and in the same year they came to Galland's Grove. It became their permanent residence except for the time Milton served in the Civil War. He died in Galland's Grove on April 12, 1898; his wife had preceded him in death about a year earlier. On his death, their property of 200 acres, with good improvements, was given to the RLDS Church (5).
Alexander and Sibyl Vranenburg McCord
Alexander was born January 10, 1811, in New York City. While he was young, his parents died as a plague swept through New York City. Sibyl was born February 27, 1817, in Ulster County, New York. They were married on November 25, 1834 and they became the parents of seven children. For a time, they lived in Nauvoo. In 1846, they left Nauvoo with the migration for Utah, and while in western Iowa, Alexander enlisted in the Mormon Battalion, serving in the Captain Hunt’s Company. After he mustered out, he crossed the mountains and plains on horseback, between February and April of 1848, to Winter Quarters, Nebraska Territory. The family moved to Galland's Grove where Alexander engaged in extensive farming. By his industry and good management, he eventually built a good home for his family. He died June 15, 1887, at his residence near Harlan in Shelby County. Sibyl died at Defiance, Iowa, November 29, 1900, survived by three of her children—Warren Luther, Bradley H., and Ichabod.
William McCord and Ann Jennette Crandall
William was born July 27, 1842, in Hancock County, Illinois. He married Ann Jennette Crandall on January 6, 1861, in Galland’s Grove. Ann had lived at the Grove since she was six years old. She was the daughter of Patrick and Delilah Smith Crandall. They became the parents of four children: William, Alex, Patrick Crandall and Mary Elizabeth. William was killed in a well-drilling accident January 24, 1891. Ann died January 16, 1930.
John Anglin and Malinda Jane Hunt McIntosh
John A. and his family moved to Galland's Grove in 1856. John was born on April 14, 1806 in Logan County, Kentucky. He married Susannah Boren and she died in 1842 while living in Nauvoo. They had two children, Cornelius Green and Nancy Jane. He next married Nancy Anglin McIntosh. She died in 1848 in Lee County, Iowa. They had two children, Sarah Elizabeth and a boy that died in infancy. He next married Malinda Jane Hunt. She was born March 9, 1931, in Barren County, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alexander and Mary Baird Hunt. Together they had eleven children. “Uncle John A” was a man of natural brilliance with strong convictions of right and wrong and the courage to express his thoughts (6). Late in life, he and Malinda moved to Denison, Crawford County. There he died August 8, 1897, at the age of ninety-three. Malinda died in 1914, survived by five of their children.
James and Harriet Spillett Pearsall
James was born in Buckinghamshire, England on October 22, 1842. He married Harriet Spillett in 1870 in London, England. Harriet was born on September 21, 1847, in Preston, England. They emigrated to America and made their home in Texas until 1880 when they moved to Galland's Grove where they lived thirty-three years. At Harriet's death in 1916, their surviving children were Mrs. Anna Elizabeth Gunsolley, from California; Joseph Henry, from Nebraska City; Frederick W., James Edward, George Ames Mark Albert, Mrs. Ellen “Nellie” Justice, and Mrs. Margaret Hoeffer all of Dow City. James died at the home of his son, Mark, December 28, 1919.
Michael and Cynthia Stephens Perry Yeaman
Cynthia was born October 10, 1811, in Onondaga County, New York, and was baptized into the Church in June 1837 in Toronto, Canada. She married Michael Yeaman in 1831 in York County, New York. Together they had nine children. Two children were born in Nauvoo and one in Garden Grove, Iowa, on the way west. The Yeaman family, Michael, Cynthia and four children, left with the Daniel H. Cannon Company on June 1, 1861. They settled in Ogden, Weber County, Utah. It was here that Michael passed away on June 26, 1865. Cynthia married Stephen Henry Perry. Both had been widowed. Stephen and Cynthia returned to Iowa and settled in Galland’s Grove. Stephen died on December 29, 1886. Cynthia then lived with her grandson, Richard Yeaman, in Grove Township where she died January 20, 1892.
John and Mary Ann Ingram Pett
John was born in Warwickshire, England, on September 27, 1824. His wife, Mary Ann Ingram, was born in Oxfordshire, England, on June 10, 1826, eleven children were born to the couple. They journeyed to Utah in 1853 and return to Iowa in 1864, locating in Shelby County and afterward in Crawford County. Here Mary Ann died July 11, 1892, at her home in Dow City. Elder John Pett died September 11, 1913. He was survived by six sons and four daughters.
Uriah and Polly Lyon Roundy
Uriah was from Rockingham, Windham, Vermont and born on April 10, 1796, to Uriah and Lucretia Needham Roundy. He was a member of the Church and had witnessed the apostasy during the scattering of the Saints. He was one “who kept his armor bright, and ever ready to be used in the cause of truth,” when opportunity presented. In the early days Elder Roundy had been well acquainted with Joseph the Seer and his father's family. Joseph's mother, Lucy, was, he said the best woman he ever knew, “a very charitable woman full of love and cheer for everybody.” Father Smith, the patriarch of the church, he said, “was indeed a loving and good man--and all his boys were conscientious, honorable men (7).” Uriah first married Polly Lyon. She was born February 21, 1794, in Saratoga, New York. Together they had nine children, all born in the state of New York.
Uriah next married Irena “Rena” Smith. She was born near Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on August 25, 1810. They were married at Galland’s Grove, Pottawattamie County, on July 15, 1848. Rena had one child, Martha Jane, who was born in Galland’s Grove on September 6, 1850. Rena died on November 1, 1880, at Galland's Grove. Uriah had preceded his wife in death on October 2, 1869.
Washington and Alvira Williamson Roundy
Washington was the fourth child and third son of Uriah and Polly Lyon Roundy. He was born September 26, 1825, in Onondaga County, New York. He married Zerelda Iler in 1847 in Pike County, Illinois. She died soon afterward in 1848.
In 1848, he married Alvira Williamson, and they moved to Galland’s Grove in 1851. This union brought fourteen children into the world. Mr. Roundy possessed nearly 1000 acres of land in Shelby County. He had made valuable improvements and had one of the finest homes in that part of Iowa. He was a staunch Democrat and strongly advocated the issues of the party. In 1887, Mr. Roundy was elected a member of the Iowa Legislature (8).
When Alvira died on June 9, 1892, three sons and seven daughters were still living. Washington then married Mrs. Nancy A. Black on December 8, 1895. He died February 15, 1902, at his home in Galland's Grove, survived by his wife.
John Barnard and Irene Whitinger Swain
John was born in Wayne County, Indiana, of Quaker parents on February 6, 1825. He married Irene Whitinger in May 1847. She was born in Wayne County on September 18, 1831. To this union were born nine children. In 1850, the Swain family came to Galland's Grove. Soon after his arrival at the Grove, John served on the first board of supervisors in Grove Township (9). The family later moved to Harlan, where John died February 7, 1897. His wife died July 19, 1918, in Seattle, Washington, at the home of a granddaughter, Mrs. L. L. Cunningham. Three children survived her.
William and Mary “Polly” Hedrick Van Ausdall
William, born February 23, 1788, in West Virginia, and was an early member and among those who experienced the pain and frustration during the apostasy in Nauvoo. William married Mary “Polly” Hedrick in 1812 while in West Virginia. Polly was born October 22, 1782, in Chesterfield County, Virginia. The couple had twelve children. William was the first County Judge in Shelby County (10). At that time the judge managed practically all the business of the county. He looked after the care and custody of all county property, audited all claims against the county, drew warrants on the county treasurer, audited and settled accounts of the treasurer, instituted and prosecuted suits for the benefit of the county, superintended the fiscal concerns of the county, and rented or provided all buildings and rooms for county offices.
Thomas and Mary Woodcock
Thomas was born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania on December 29, 1814. He married Mary Ann Van Ausdall, the daughter of William and Polly Hedrick Van Ausdall. She was born on June 16, 1817, in Lee County, Illinois. They married in 1842 and had seven children. Thomas died June 26, 1889, and Mary died on January 2, 1898, at Galland's Grove.
Possible Births
| Name | Father’s Name | Mother’s Name | Birth Date |
| Joseph Almon Jordan | William Jordan | Mary Eliza Galland | 10 Mar 1847 |
| Lewis Jackson Galland | David Galland | Druscilla Dragoo | 15 Dec 1847 |
| Joseph Strong | Reuben William Strong | Hannah F. Galland | 1848 |
| Mary Amanda Felshaw | William Felshaw | Charlotte Walters | Mar 1848 |
| Ann Jackson | Lewis John Jackson | Hannah Margaret Crandall | 4 Apr 1848 |
| Sarah Elizabeth Rudd | Amander Franklin Rudd | Elvira Louise Chandler | June 1848 |
| Hannah Olive Felshaw | William Felshaw | Mary Harriet Gilbert | 2 Nov 1848 |
| Wilson Overton Hancock | Solomon Hancock | Eliza Jane Thompson | 1849 |
| Hiram Robert Strong | Reuben William Strong | Hannah F. Galland | 22 Jan 1849 |
| Hyrum S. Jordan | William Jordan | Mary Eliza Galland | 27 Feb 1849 |
| Harmon William Cummings | John Cummings | Rachel Ann Carnady | 11 Jul 1850 |
| Julia Elvira Rudd | Amander Franklin Rudd | Elvira Louise Chandler | 16 Jul 1850 |
| Martha Jane Roundy | Uriah Roundy | Irena Smith | 6 Sep 1850 |
| Sarah Felshaw | William Felshaw | Mary Harriet Gilbert | 3 Feb 1851 |
| Susannah Felshaw | William Felshaw | Mary Harriet Gilbert | 3 Feb 1851 |
| Willis Albert Thompson | Medad Thompson | Phebe Burnham Hobart | 23 Mar 1851 |
| Eleanor Felshaw | William Felshaw | Charlotte Walters | 14 Oct 1851 |
| Thomas Cummings | John Cummings | Rachel Ann Carnady | 1852 |
| William H. Galland | William M. Galland | Melvina Amanda Allen | 15 Dec 1847 |
| Sephrona Thompson | Medad Thompson | Phebe Burnham Hobart | 29 Mar 1853 |
| Melvina Helen Hancock | Solomon Hancock | Eliza Jane Thompson | 2 May 1853 |
| Solomon Hancock | Solomon Hancock | Eliza Jane Thompson | 22 Aug 1856 |
Marriages
From the Pottawattamie County Marriages, the following individual was listed as coming from Galland’s Grove (11).
Lorenzo Dow Rudd and Julia Felshaw on October 30, 1849
Benjamin F. Galland and Maria Louise Allen on March 27, 1850
Thomas McCord and Cynthia Fouts from Elk Grove on March 20, 1851
Other marriages that may have occurred at Galland’s Grove
Eliza Jane Thompson and Solomon Hancock on January 6, 1846
William M. Galland and Melvina Amanda Allen in 1849
Serelda Jordan and John Randal Rudd on April 18, 1853
Bibliography
1.Wilcox, Pearl, Roots of the Reorganized Latter-Day Saints in Southern Iowa p. 262.
2. Ibid, p. 260.
3. Ibid, p. 264.
4. Ibid, p. 265.
5. Ibid, p. 264.
6. Ibid, p. 258.
7. Ibid, p. 257.
8. Walsh, Dennis and John Schulte, Shelby County Iowa Family History, 1997-2004.
9. Wilcox, Pearl, Roots of the Reorganized Latter-Day Saints in Southern Iowa p. 266.
10. Ibid, p. 259.
11. “Pottawattamie County Marriage Records,” Pottawattamie County Genealogical Society, 2000.