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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 520-521]

  JOHN T. SONES, a farmer of Pilot Township, has been a resident 
  of Cherokee County since July 10, 1869. He was born in Sullivan 
  County, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1845, and is a son of ISAAC and 
  MATILDA (YOUNGER) SONES, natives of Pennsylvania.  He was reared 
  to the life of a farmer, and received a limited education in the 
  public schools.  During the late Rebellion Mr. SONES was found 
  willing and anxious to go to the defense of the old flag; he en-
  listed in June, 1864, in the Nineteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, 
  Company L, and took part in the battle of Nashville, where he 
  was wounded in the hip, on account of which he was confined to 
  the hospital for two weeks.  He was honorably discharged in June, 
  1865, when he returned to his native county.  A year later he 
  located in Lewisburgh, Pennsylvania, residing there one year. 
  In 1867 he removed to Lee County, Illinois, where he remained 
  two years.  At the expiration of that time he came to Cherokee 
  County and took a homestead of eighty acres which he has since 
  made his home.  As is the habit of Cherokee County farmers, he 
  has placed his land in an advanced state of cultivation, and 
  has made other improvements.  Mr. SONES was married in Lee 
  County, Illinois, June 19, 1869, to Miss ELLEN GEE, who was 
  born in Ohio, and reared in Lee County, Illinois. Four children 
  have been born to them, two of whom are living: LILLY ROSETTA, in 
  her sixteenth year, and BERT, in his eleventh year; GEORGE died 
  at the age of twelve years, and ALVA at the age of seven years. 
  In politics Mr. SONES stands with the Republicans.  He is a member 
  of the General Custer Post, No. 25, G.A.R.

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