History of Davis co., Iowa - 1882
Brumley, Jasper; page 669: farmer and stock raiser, post office Stiles; was born April 24, 1840, in Ohio, living there till 1863, when his parents came to Iowa and settled in Roscoe township, this county. Here he grew up to manhood and received a limited education, he learned to labor on the farm, where he remained till the war broke out, when he enlisted in company A, Third Iowa Cavalry, and went with that regiment through most of its hardest fights. At the battle of Lagrange, Arkansas, he was dangerously wounded, the ball passing through his right arm and entering his right side passing through the point at the right lung, and lodging in the front part of the abdominal cavity, near the point at the breast bone, where it still remains, he then went to the hospital at Keokuk, but rejoined the regiment in the fall; was sick in hospital at Memphis, Tennessee, when Forrest made his raid into the city. He was discharged October 19, 1864, and returned home, bringing with him a gentle reminder that he had fought and bled for his country. He was married in 1866, to Miss M. A. Foshee; they have two children, Zora K. and Lucinda. After his marriage he purchased his present farm containing 132 acres, in fine cultivation. He and his wife are members of the M. E. Church at Stiles.
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Brumley, Jasper; page 669: farmer and stock raiser, post office Stiles; was born April 24, 1840, in Ohio, living there till 1863, when his parents came to Iowa and settled in Roscoe township, this county. Here he grew up to manhood and received a limited education, he learned to labor on the farm, where he remained till the war broke out, when he enlisted in company A, Third Iowa Cavalry, and went with that regiment through most of its hardest fights. At the battle of Lagrange, Arkansas, he was dangerously wounded, the ball passing through his right arm and entering his right side passing through the point at the right lung, and lodging in the front part of the abdominal cavity, near the point at the breast bone, where it still remains, he then went to the hospital at Keokuk, but rejoined the regiment in the fall; was sick in hospital at Memphis, Tennessee, when Forrest made his raid into the city. He was discharged October 19, 1864, and returned home, bringing with him a gentle reminder that he had fought and bled for his country. He was married in 1866, to Miss M. A. Foshee; they have two children, Zora K. and Lucinda. After his marriage he purchased his present farm containing 132 acres, in fine cultivation. He and his wife are members of the M. E. Church at Stiles.
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History of Davis co., Iowa - 1882
Brumley, Jasper; page 669: farmer and stock raiser, post office Stiles; was born April 24, 1840, in Ohio, living there till 1863, when his parents came to Iowa and settled in Roscoe township, this county. Here he grew up to manhood and received a limited education, he learned to labor on the farm, where he remained till the war broke out, when he enlisted in company A, Third Iowa Cavalry, and went with that regiment through most of its hardest fights. At the battle of Lagrange, Arkansas, he was dangerously wounded, the ball passing through his right arm and entering his right side passing through the point at the right lung, and lodging in the front part of the abdominal cavity, near the point at the breast bone, where it still remains, he then went to the hospital at Keokuk, but rejoined the regiment in the fall; was sick in hospital at Memphis, Tennessee, when Forrest made his raid into the city. He was discharged October 19, 1864, and returned home, bringing with him a gentle reminder that he had fought and bled for his country. He was married in 1866, to Miss M. A. Foshee; they have two children, Zora K. and Lucinda. After his marriage he purchased his present farm containing 132 acres, in fine cultivation. He and his wife are members of the M. E. Church at Stiles.
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Brumley, Jasper; page 669: farmer and stock raiser, post office Stiles; was born April 24, 1840, in Ohio, living there till 1863, when his parents came to Iowa and settled in Roscoe township, this county. Here he grew up to manhood and received a limited education, he learned to labor on the farm, where he remained till the war broke out, when he enlisted in company A, Third Iowa Cavalry, and went with that regiment through most of its hardest fights. At the battle of Lagrange, Arkansas, he was dangerously wounded, the ball passing through his right arm and entering his right side passing through the point at the right lung, and lodging in the front part of the abdominal cavity, near the point at the breast bone, where it still remains, he then went to the hospital at Keokuk, but rejoined the regiment in the fall; was sick in hospital at Memphis, Tennessee, when Forrest made his raid into the city. He was discharged October 19, 1864, and returned home, bringing with him a gentle reminder that he had fought and bled for his country. He was married in 1866, to Miss M. A. Foshee; they have two children, Zora K. and Lucinda. After his marriage he purchased his present farm containing 132 acres, in fine cultivation. He and his wife are members of the M. E. Church at Stiles.
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