Robert Hiram WASSON

  General Notes:

1859 BIRTH of Robert Hiram Wasson

Robert was a son of Benjamin Wasson, 1825-1862, and Mary H. Willits, 1830-1862

1860 CENSUS, Iowa, Des Moines County, Pleasant Grove Township, P. O. Pleasant Grove (July 20) ("Robert," age 1, is with his parents)

1870 CENSUS, Iowa, Des Moines County, Pleasant Grove Township, P. O. Middletown (June 14) ("Robert Hiram," age 11, "Farm Laborer," is documented "McCune" in this census)

1880 CENSUS, Iowa, Des Moines County, Pleasant Grove Township (June 18) ("Robert H.," age 21, "Farm Laborer," is with his parents)

1881 MARRIAGE of Robert Hiram Wasson and Ellen Zeta McNamee on August 11 in Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa

1895 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Pleasant Grove Township (no date) ("Robert H. Wasson," age 35, born in Des Moines County, Iowa) ("Ellen Wasson," age 32, born in Des Moines County, Iowa)

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, DesMoines County, Pleasant Grove Township (June 20) ("Robert," age 41, "Farm laborer," born "April, 1859 in Iowa") (wife Ellen Z.," age 35, born "April, 1865 in Iowa") (Ellen is shown as the mother of 8 children, 8 children living in the year 1900; she and Robert had been married 18 years)

1905 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Des Moines County, Pleasant Grove Township, P. O. Pleasant Grove (no date) ("Robert Wasson" and "Ellen Wasson") (names only are in the 1905 Iowa State Census)

1910 CENSUS, Iowa, Henry County, Baltimore Township (April 22) ("Robert H.," age 50, "Farmer, Works out") (wife "Elen Z.," age 46) (Robert and Ellen had been married 29 years)

1915 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Des Moines County, Pleasant Grove Township, P. O. New London (no date) ("Robert Wasson," age 55, born in Iowa, occupation "Farmer," completed 8 years of common school, can read and write, father born Ohio, mother born Indiana)

1915 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Des Moines County, Pleasant Grove Township, P. O. New London (no date) ("Ellen Wasson," age 51, born in Iowa, completed 8 years of common school, can read and write, father born Pennsylvania, mother born Pennsylvania)

1920 CENSUS, Iowa, Des Moines County, Pleasant Grove Township (February 12 & 20) ("Robert," age 60, "Laborer," Farm") (wife "Ellen," age 55)

1925 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Des Moines County, Middletown (January 1) ("Robert H.," age 65, son of Benjamin Wasson, born in Ohio, and Mary Willhite, born in Indiana, parents married in Iowa; wife "Ellen Zetta Wasson, age 62, daughter of John McManee, born in Pennsylvania, and Susanne Hudson, born in Pennsylvania, parents married in Iowa)

1930 CENSUS, Iowa, Henry County, New London (April 5) ("Robert H.," age 70, no occupation) (wife "Ellen Z.," age 65)

1937 DEATH, Robert Hiram Wasson, at 78 years 7 months 3 days

Robert married Ellen Zeta McMANEE on August 11, 1881 in Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa. (Ellen Zeta McMANEE was born on April 16, 1864 in Iowa.)