Re: Moorehead Family
MOREHEAD OR MOOREHEAD, KELLY, NEFF
Posted By: H.Vargus (email) In Response To: Re: Moorehead Family (Glenn Edmison)
Date: 6/4/2007 at 22:50:51
The 1982 History of Henry County, Iowa (pp. 336-337) has a biography written by R.O. Moorehead about several Moorehead brothers.
They were early pioneers of Henry County. In 1851 five brothers left home in Zanesville, OH--Joseph, John, Steven, Washington, and William Moorehead. They sailed down Ohio River to St. Louis and from there took a ship up the Mississippi to Burlington, Iowa. They first landed at Olds-Swedesburg area. From there they went to the Greenmound Cemetery and Trenton area. Here they bought 48 acre plots from Jake Kephart for $7.50 an acre. On one of the plots a baby was buried from a wagon train heading west. Mr. Kephart had promised the community a cemetery there. The brothers cleared land and built a log cabin. When it was finished Joseph returned to OH and married his fiance Mariah Kelly. At some point some of the Moorhead sisters came to Iowa--Mary Jane, Liza and one other. William and Steven Morehead married Neff girls.
Joseph and Mirah Moreheads children were: Dora, Amanda, Loretta, Elizabeth, Wesley, William, and one or two who died in infancy.
Three of the Morehead brothers are buried at Greenmound Cemetery--Joseph, Washington, and Stephen. No record of the other two boys are available as they did not remain in Iowa.
This article also lists some of the descendents of these Moorehead brothers. I am not related to these families.
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