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Sumner and Margaret I. Gates The lady whose name introduces this sketch is the widow of Sumner E. Gates, and lives upon her farm, which is located on sections 23, 25 and 26, in Newton Township. It is a fine old home, about one-half mile east of the city limits of Newton, comprising four hundred and fifty acres of land. Margaret I. Gates is a native of Jasper County, Iowa, having been born November 13, 1856, in Newton Township, the daughter of Cobane and Sarah J. (Read) McConkey. Her father was born in Hopedale, Harrison County, Ohio, and the mother in Guernsey County, Ohio. The family came west and settled in Scott County, Iowa, in 1853, where Mr. McConkey engaged in farming for a couple of years. At the expiration of that time he came to Jasper County, and purchased one hundred and twenty acres of land in Newton Township. At the time of his death, which occurred in 1896, at the age of seventy-four years, he was retired and living in Newton. Mrs. McConkey, who is now seventy-five years of age, lives with her daughter, the subject of this sketch. The fathers of both Mrs. Gates' parents, Samuel M. McConkey and John Read, served in the war of 1812. She is one of eight children, of whom she is the eldest, the others being as follows: Jane, wife of Frank Graham, died in Jasper County; Alice, wife of John Munn, a farmer, living in Newton Township; Edward died at the age of seventeen; Mary died at the age of nineteen; Lillie, who became the wife of Bert Beatty, lives on a farm in Newton Township; Charles is a carpenter in Newton; William died at the age of twenty-nine.
The Past and Present of Jasper County, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, 1912 B.F. Bowen Co., Indianapolis, IN, p. 848. |
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