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- Typed note from Mildred Whitwood, page 2 says:
William E. Lockard and wife Elizabeth Ann Steinberger came in a covered wagon with four sons from Ohio. A little daughter died as an infant and was buried in Ohio. Two sons John Lockard and Phlander Lockard ages 21 and 23 years enlisted in the Civil War, both were wounded and died. One son, John Lockard was sent to waterloo, and his father, William E. Locard drove a wagon and horses to bring him home from Waterloo, he died on the way home from Waterloo and is buried in Hauser Cemeter, Whitten, Iowa. The other son is buried in a veterans cemetary in Ohio. The two sons, George E. Lockard and Thomas Jefferson Lockard helped their father cut timber and hewed them square to build the log cabin in which they lived. Another son was born in the log cabin, Ira Sanford Lockard, March 13, 1856. Later the log cabin was built on to and all resided with walnut siding.
Mr. William Lockard purchased land from Greenberry Haggin and broke up the virgin soil until he had two hundred, forty acres. The son Ira Lockard married Rosina Camelia Jester, November 5, 1876. She was the daughter of James and Mary Fletcher Jester. To this union was born seven girls and one son which died as an infant. Lillian Lockard Nendy, Mable Estella Lockard Hurley, Ethel Lockard Carson, Josephine Clare Lockard Rowen, Lois Cecil Lockard Moore, Doris Lockard Armstrong and Genevieve Lockard Zook. All are deceased except Ethel Lockard Carson, who resides now in Waterloo, Iowa. All had lived in Hardin Co.
Ira Sanford Lockard was born in the log cabin, his daugher Ethel Lockard Carson also born in the same log cabin and a son of Ethel Lockard Carson and Clair E. Carson, Harry Clarence Carson was also born in the same log cabin making three generations.
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, d. 20 Jan 1940 (Age 83 years)