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SILVER CREEK STORY - Rebekah Teubner
about A Community in Delaware County Iowa
PREFACE
This little book is compiled from information secured from descendants of Silver Creek pioneers, from old records, old notebooks and faded diaries, from newspaper clippings, from any source which was found to be authentic. The most valuable accounts have come from the lips of the little group of Silver Creek pioneers still living for they were children on this very ground when its history was being made. These men and women, though now advanced in years, are possessed of keen, clear minds to this day and date. We are thus indebted to Elizabeth Swindell Johnston, W. B. Robinson, Mrs. Alice Falconer Robinson, Frank Swindle, Charles Swindle, W. L. Carrothers, George W. Carrothers, and Mrs. Jemima Wilson Wood.
Turn back the pages to April, 1852. Iowa had been a state then for six years, admitted to the Union in 1846. For our story skip the pages of state history to pick up the time when three young Irishmen set forth for the West. They had landed in New York from their native Ireland some years before. In Alleghany, Pennsylvania, were an Alex Robinson and his wife who had come from Ireland in the 1840's
Old records, obituaries, and other accounts give the names of places in North Ireland from which these people came. Some familiar ones are Armagh, Monaghan, Newtown Butler, Lisnaskea, Clogher, Maguire's Bridge, Five Mile Town, Clones, Enniskillen.
Three original Silver Creek pioneers - Anthony Swindle/Swindell, James Robinson. John McKay
