SOLOMON SILKNITTER

SILKNITTER, CARTER

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 6/7/2009 at 19:05:28

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

SOLOMON SILKNITTER, deceased; born Oct. 17, 1816, in Pennsylvania; died March 4, 1865. Married Catherine Carter in 1836; she was born in 1818 in Maryland; in 1849 they came to Appanoose Co.; they own 600 acres of land; they had twelve children, ten living -- Henry P., Mary I., Benjamin F., Rebecca S., Hiram W., Benjamin F., Rebecca S., Hiram W., Sylvenia S., Jno. P., Solomon S., Jacob A. and Eli E. Benjamin F. is now Sheriff of this county, serving his second term. Presbyterian.