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

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                             BEAR GROVE TOWNSHIP
                               Early Settlement

          JOHN O. HAZLETT was born January 11, 1829, in West Virginia. His
       mother, MARY HAZLETT, died at his birth, and he was reared by his
       grandfather, WILLIAM OGY, of Somerset county, Pennsylvania, with
       whom he lived until he reached maturity. In 1861 he went to Fillmore
       county,Minnesota, where he lived till 1864. He enlisted in that year
       in company E of the Ninth Iowa Cavalry, and served one year in
       GENERAL REYNOLDS' division, in the Arkansas department. After the
       war he married in *1851* in Allamakee county, this State, to
       MARGARET M. SCHRODER.  Ten children have blessed their union — MARY
       S. A., wife of EZRA D. YODER; RACHEL L., GEORGE W., JOHN GRANT,
       TAYLOR E., DORA ELLEN, MINNIE M., CHARLES R., LEWIS and MELINDA.

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