William McDONALD

  General Notes:

1823-1826 BIRTH of William McDonald

William's gravestone at St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Dodgeville, DesMoines County, Iowa is engraved [died] "August 19, 1868, age 45y," which places his birth about 1823; census records document anywhere from 1820 to 1826

1850 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Northumberland County, Point Township (September 13) (William, age 24, is in the James McDonald household) (William, "Furnace tender")

1852-1853 MIGRATION from Northumberland County, Pennsylvania to DesMoines County, Iowa

MARRIAGE of William McDonald and Catherine Lafferty

1860 CENSUS, Iowa, DesMoines County, Franklin Township, P. O. Dodgeville (July 12) (William, "Farmer") (wife "Catherine," age 29, born in New Jersey) (Five children are in the household: Sarah, 8; Mary, 6; James, 5; Elizabeth, 2; and John, 4 months)

1860 CENSUS, U. S. Federal Census Non-Population Schedule, Iowa, Des Moines County, Franklin Township, P. O. Dodgeville (July 12) ("William Mcdonald," Agriculture)

1864 DEATH of mother, Mary McDonald

1868 DEATH, William McDonald

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1870 CENSUS, Iowa, DesMoines County, Franklin Township, P. O. Dodgeville (June 14) (Catherine, age 39, widow, born in New York, "Keeping house"; in Catherine's household is her brother-in-law, John McDonald, age 54, "Farmer")

1870 CENSUS, U. S. Federal Census Non-Population Schedule, Iowa, Des Moines County, Franklin Township, P. O. Dodgeville (June 15) ("Catharine Mcdonald," Agriculture)

1880 CENSUS, Iowa, DesMoines County, Franklin Township (June 3) (Catherine, widow, age 49, born in New Jersey, "Keeping house"; in Catherine's household is her brother-in-law, "John S. McDonald, age 63, "Boarder")

1880 CENSUS, U. S. Federal Census Non-Population Schedule, Iowa, Des Moines County, Benton Township (June 3) ("Catheren Mcdonald," Agriculture)

1890 DEATH of wife, Catherine (Lafferty) McDonald

William married Catherine LAFFERTY about 1850. (Catherine LAFFERTY was born about 1830 in New Jersey, died in February 1890 in Des Moines County, Iowa and was buried in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Dodgeville, Des Moines County, Iowa.)