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Standard Form For Members of the Le91slature 2. Harria9e (s) date place 3. Si9nificant events for example: 7 4. Church membership __________~--~~ ~~~~~~~---------------------- 6. Public Offices A. Loc a 1 tj. ..4tkt-"'V ~ j ..:1£b'"',? .f,t,, ~ '-'~ -<"#E-mf B. State _________________________________________________ . C. National ______________________________________________ Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. fh.\\ 1 SA-o""le~ E · Sources Log For Legislation Entries Applicability Source Non ' -- a~-!4~... 1 1,.. - {/ Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. F &n . (.,) ) '-> ;-i 7 I OJ 'i'l' THE HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY, IOWA J7iree n)rrs flow tlimtq!i !imds cjjllJJ!!...,'i tll?d 1/'tJOti-S ; JJti;l/i J?ti 'f'!; Ytidd!e FtiJ~;,· StHdh .1t!-er,· 1171pretoztiort.s{r tlie_y tide t!1.eir .separate 11'lf._f/.S JJgzn~ t!1cljjoin- tlie ctolcllt of the Ji<t'de :JJes./!&ines, JhtJtll/li noJJ_, tlze realm clizim,.s .•J' 't. "'TIJ /' t ,, ) . dt§mt y a.s /7·flJ7'8N uJt/72 y Centere_d round tli.e Sf!UZ.r& cf lntitflJ?.ola Jdiere i'ts Cma·t 7i'ottse st-a;zds_, Its n;!/in; h'il!.s ami streams Jrere a./Jr'a!fS /'?lie Jllree :River Comz,try-~ to tlie pioJuo-s, Compiled by The Warren County Genealogical Society - 1987 o-g 3 Cfo;t. Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. • Robert Francis Powers married Alice L. Kisor on April 16, 1966. They have two '831 daughters, Rebecca, and Elizabeth, both still in high school. They make their home in 1 2;:1 Norwalk. Lh James Thomas Powers never married. r ~'", Elizabeth Agnes Powers died April10, 1971 hen, and is buried at Cumming, IA. Henry Powers l925, makes his home in Cumming. l926, l928, by Alice Powers >bert g ·on ~ight rried POWERS, WILFRED who AND DOLORES who F832 :llen, John Wilfred V. Powers, a retired farmer in ;ricia Jefferson Twp. was born on the farm where 1bar, he resided until July 22, 1985 when he died )yer, suddenly at his home with an apparent heart h 0. attack. He was the third child born to William and ~ hree Mary Burke Powers. His father died Novem­ i one ber 6, 1938 and mother February 26, 1960. Stanley Prall f live His grandparents, Thomas and Bridgett Thomas and Rachel (Richardson) Prall Cash Powers were Pioneers of Warren Co. College in Indianola. In 1928 he graduated e on On January 7, 1936 he was united in from the School of Law at the University of Billiou, a French Huguenot, who was born in marriage to Dolores Hayden, born in Colo­ Iowa. 1650 in Leyden, Holland, and they settled on were rado to William and Kathryn Hayden. Do­ It was in the office of 0. C. Brown, that he a land grant on Staten Island near her folks, sons, lores' mother passed away when she was.quite first started practicing law in Indianola. He Peter Billiou and Francoise Dubois. Arendt's hter, young and she grew up in the home of her was City Attorney of Indianola and county parents, his birth date, and his country of ning. aunt and uncle, Marguerite and Harry Smith Attorney of Warren County for four years. He origin have not been determined, but it is were of Booneville, lA. served two terms in the House of Representa­ believed that he was born in the Netherlands I[ark, Wilfred and Dolores became the parents of tives from 1937-1940. in about 1647 and came to the New Nether­ tome three children, Sharon Netley of Indianola, During World War II he was a Captain in lands as a young man around 1660. He was Nancy Nash of Des Moines and Ron of the Military Government, spending time in a wheelwright by trade and was a tax assessor we Indianola, who passed away December 5, England, Belgium and Germany. Shortly and supervisor before he died on Staten 1ters, 1985. They have eight grandchildren-Jolene after the war he was appointed a judge of the Island in 1725. Today the Staten Island ning. Netley, Mort, Shelli, Todd and Lindsey 5th Judicial District. He was an active, Huguenot Memorial Church has one pillar rried Netley, Mark and Scott Nash, and Mike and concerned and devoted judge for almost 20 dedicated to the Prall and Billiou families, 1ters, Rodney Powers. years, going to the courthouse on Saturdays and off the west side of Staten Island there aing. Wilfred and Dolores were progressive and and accepting special assignments outside is a Prall Island. Peter Billiou's house is still ,ugh- successful farmers on their "Century Old the district when asked. He kept going in standing on Staten Island, and it is the oldest Farm"- always willing to give their time to spite of a heart problem that kept getting house on Staten Island. Presently, Staten rried school and community affairs. Dolores was worse. It is remembered that about a week Island has a Prall street and a Billiou street, rhey active in 4-H and served on the 4-H commit­ before he died, he said to the Clerk of Court, a Prall Junion High School, and Pralls still tee. Wilfred served on the Spring Hill School "Leave that book open, I'll be back." live on Staten Island. •seph Board many years. He worked in the Warren On November 28, 1966, he passec away in Captain Peter Prall (1672-1748), the oldest 1ts of Co. assessor's office in the nineteen sixties the Methodist Hospital in Des Moines, lA. son of Arendt, was a captain in the militia Jean, and was chairman of the Warren Co. Agricul­ He is buried in Carlisle Cemetery next to his between 1700 and 1713 and made one Hen- tural and Conservation Committee in 1961. son, Eddie, who dies four years earlier. expedition to Canada in 1711. He was a He was a member of the Knights of Columbus He taught Sunday School in the Methodist farmer, a tsx assessor in 1702, and he bought mon and both of them members of the Assump­ Church. He was a member of the Red Cross, large tracts of land in New Jersey. He married ts of tion Church of Churchville. American Legion, the Odd Fellows Lodge, Mary Christopher, Althea Garritson, and Wilfred's family consisted of eight brothers Lions Club, the American and State Bar Elizabeth (last name unknown) before his .rnell and sisters, namely Ardyce, Dorothe, Paul, Association and the Republican Party. death in 17 48. chi!- Clement, Lorraine, Leo, John and Gertrude. Peter Prall (1700-1761), the son of Capt. by Kathleen Prall Coe Weeks Peter Prall, married Sarah Grandain about ·ried. by Dolores Powers 1722, and they settled in Amwell Twp., dwin Hunterdon Co., NJ. Their farm was on the .mily old York road that crossed the Delaware Mi­ PRALL, THOMAS W. River at Coryell's ferry. Peter gave the land and PRALL FAMILY F834 for the old Presbyterian church and the F833 Pleasant Ridge Cemetery across the road or on In 1857, Thomas Wilson Prall rode horse­ from his farm. Generations of Pralls and tters, Stanley E. Prall was born February 13, back from Indiana to Van Buren Co., lA, with allied families, even Revolutionary War 1ing. 1905 on a farm near Carlisle, IA. His parents his father, Cornelius Nathan Prall, and his Pralls, are buried in the cemetery. obile were Nathan C. and Nora (Miller) PralL He cousin, Wilson Prall. Cornelius Nathan Prall Peter Prall (1722-1772), the son of the attended Union School and Middle River returned to Indiana to live out his life. In above Peter Prall, married about 1743 Sarall :ed Friends Church . 1875, Thomas W. Prall moved his family to Farley. One son, John, married into the .a L When his father became ill with cancer the Warren Co., lA. Coryell Ferry family and supposedly helped two family moved into Carlisle. He graduated The first Prall immigrant to America was gather boats for General George Wash­ from Carlisle High School in 1923. His Arendt Jansen Van Naerden Prall (ca. 1647- ington's crossing of the Delaware to attack y E. Commencement Exercise announcement in­ 1725) who was first mentioned in the old Trenton during the Revolutionary War. I SOn, dicates he gave an oration called "Keystone Dutch records at Kingston, NY in 1663. On Another son, George, is in the New Jersey of Citizenship." Next he went to Simpson June 3, 1670, Arendt Prall married Maria RevolutionaryWar records. His descendants Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. 867 f!?lale o/ !Iowa 1967 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE of the SIXTY-SECOND GENERAl ASSEMBlY • ;f ·, ' 4- - <!I> ConveneS! :t ' Jii..uary , 1967 Adjourned July 2, 1967 • HAROLD E. HUGHES, Governor ROBERT D. FULTON, President of the Senate MAURICE E. BARINGER, Speaker of the House Compiled Under DirectiOn of J. C. Moore Superintendent of Printing Published by the STATE OF IOWA Des Moines Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa.

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