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History of Cass County, Iowa
Continental Historical Company
Springfield, ILL; 1884

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                                CHAPTER XXVII
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                             BEAR GROVE TOWNSHIP
                               Early Settlement

          JOHN DEALY was born September 19, 1843 in Decatur county,
       Indiana.  His early life was spent in that county, and one adjoining
       (Bartholomew). In July, 1862, he enlisted in company I, of the
       Sixty-seventh Indiana Infantry. He was first under fire at Mumfords-
       ville, Kentucky. He took part in SHERMAN'S attack at Chickasaw
       Bayou, the capture of Arkansas Post, and the campaign against Vicks-
       burg, also the battles of Port Gibson, Champion Hill, Black River
       Bridge and Jackson. He then went to New Orleans and participated in
       Banks' Red River campaign, and the battles of Fort Gaines, Fort
       Morgan and Fort Blakely. He was honorably discharged at Galveston,
       Texas, in July, 1865. He returned to Bartholomew county, Indiana,
       and engaged in farming, teaching school during the winter seasons.
       He went to Grant county, Indiana, where he had some relatives, and
       lived there about three years, and taught three or four terms of
       school. There he got acquainted with and married MATILDA JANE
       CRAWFORD, in 1869, daughter of JOHN CRAWFORD, now a resident of
       Lewis, Iowa.  In 1871, MR. DEALY and wife moved to Cass county,
       locating on an eighty acres of raw prairie, on section 31, in Bear
       Grove township, where he now resides.  MRS. DEALY was born September
       12, 1841, in Grant county, Indiana. They are the parents of three
       children — JENNIE L., WILLIAM C, and JOSEPH M.  MR. DEALY is now
       serving his fifth term as school director.

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