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From: J.[James] W. [Warren] Merrill, "Yellow Spring and Huron: A Local History (Mediapolis, IA; 1897) [in the Library of Congress]
Here is the full bio of Foster Carmean given there (pp 101, 102). Please note Joseph on p. 102:
[p 101] "FOSTER CARMEAN [centered on line by itself]
Came from Ohio with his brothers-in-law, the Heizer brothers [see below], in 1842. He purchased a farm on the Walters claim, where he made his home and reared his family. His was a typical pioneer home. Within the walls of the great log house, there were sixteen children, nine sons and seven daughters all but three of whom lived to mature years. The sons were Samuel, married Lydia Gray, and went to Kansas, living at Lawrence; Pierson [sic], married Miss Vannice, lives near Paola, Kansas; Joshua married Elizabeth Tennant, lived several years in this township [Yellow Spring], then sold out and moved to Leon, Iowa. Franklin, married Lizzie [p 102] Moore; Joseph McD., married Ella E. Heizer, lives in Kansas; David, married Sarah McClintock, lives here. Martin V. died in 1878. Two boys, Wm. H. and Jesse, died young. Of the seven daughters, six sleep in the cemetery at Kossuth. Three of them were married. Mary Jane was J.R. Braden's first wife, died in 1861; Elizabeth, J. Q. A. Blanchard's first wife, died in 1866; Harriet, wife of Joseph McClure, died in 1873; Ann, aged 13, died in 1859; Minerva, aged 22, in 1862; Miriam, aged 22, 1871 [1877 on tombstone]. Florence, the youngest of the family, and only one of seven sisters living, is the wife of Edward D. Jackson, living in Mediapolis.
Of this family, three sons did service in the army. Pierson [sic] and Joshua in the 14th, and David in the 30th Iowa.
Mr. Carmean was killed in 1879, by a kick from a horse. After his death, Mrs. Carmean removed to Mediapolis, where she died in 1884."
[According to the 1850 Census Yellow Spring, Des Moines, IA, a son Manning (clearly legible), 9 in 1850 is listed as the 7th child after Franklin. However, the 1860 Census (same twp) lists a daughter Minerva age 20 (clearly legible) after Franklin. They are about the same age. Are they the same person? Since Merrill mentions Minerva but does not mention Manning, may we presume that the 1850 Census is incorrect? How could the parents not remember the name and sex of their 7th child? Did they have 16 or 17 children?]
[pp 88-91] "The Heizers.
There were three brothers--Fredrick, Nathaniel and Joshua Heizer who came with the immigration of 1842..."
[p 417] "In Carmean's family Frank's children are Foster, Cora and William; Pearson's [sic] family are Albert F.[,] Anna L., Elvina, James G.[,] Lidia V., Pearson [sic] D., Nettie A., Katie, Ethel; Samuel's children are, Chas. K., Cyrena, Fanny, Arthur; Joshua had four children, Samuel, Flora, (dec'd,) Ella, and George; J.M. has but one living, Mary." [Note the inconsitency in the spelling of Pearson/Pierson.]
[pp 34-35] "The first claimant at Hickory Point, (Northfield,) was J.K. Frazier, a Canadian, in 1836....[p 35] "William and Philip D. Walters made claims to the north, and entered their land. They sold, later, to Foster Carmean."
[In an undated map in the Merrill book, Northfield is located a little N of NE of Mediapolis almost to the NE corner of Yellow Spring township. Kossuth if located E of Mediapolis, half-way to the Huron Twp line. The only Carmean claim I see on that map is for D. [David] Carmean on the eastern border of the Twp, i.e., SE of Northfield & more truly NE of Mediapolis.]
Hope that better answers your question. Charles Walthall
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