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History of Guthrie and Adair Counties, Iowa
Springfield, Ill: Continental Hist. Co., 1884.
Penn Township
ADDISON CAVE
Addison Cave, also a native of Virginia and the eldest son of
John S. Cave, settled at the same time as his father, on the north
half of the southeast quarter of section 12. He is now a resident of
Dallas county, wheither he removed in 1877. He still owns a farm
in this township, however.
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ANDREW J. CAVE
Andrew J. Cave, a son of Addison J. Cave, is now a resident of this
township [Penn]. He was born in Caldwell county, Missouri, on the
17th of July, 1841. When he was but two years of age his parents
removed to Wapello county, Iowa, but after a short time returned to
Missouri; but in 1846 they came to Des Moines, where they resided
until 1851, when they came to Guthrie county. He resided with his
parents until his marriage, in July, 1862, to Miss Elizabeth H. Harper,
when he removed to Dallas county. Here he remained until 1870,
when he returned, and purchased a farm on section 14, where he
resided until 1882, when he sold it out. He is still a resident of the
township, living on section 13. He has four children living, and two
dead. The names of the living ones are--Sabra A., Charles E.,
Eliza J. and Olive A.; the names of the deceased were--Ellis E.
and Mahala M. He has an adopted boy that he has had since it was
three months old, known by the name of Orville.
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JOHN S. CAVE
In the winter of 1848, John S. Cave came here [Penn township] from
Des Moines, with a company, in search of lands. He put up a log
cabin, but did not stay long at that time. He was born in Virgina, in
1801, on the 16th of November. In early manhood he removed from
the state of his nativity to Ohio, and from thence to Missouri and Iowa.
He lives with his children in this township, and is a very neat and tidy
old man, with all the peculiar characteristics of the Southern people,
although he is and has been a strong anti-slavery man. He was
married in Virginia to Miss Eva Michael, also a Virginian, by whom
he has had fourteen children, eleven of whom came with the old
people. It was not until 1851 that Mr. Cave came to make a
permanent stay. The cabin which he built in 1848 was occupied all
that winter by a man by the name of Dixon. Mr. Cave and family were
therefore the pioneers of this townshiip in the settlement thereof.
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WILLIAM B. CAVE
William B., another son of John S. Cave, settled on the south half
of the southeast quarter of the same section in the same spring of
1851. He now lives on the northwest quarter of the same section.