Warren Conaway

WARREN CONAWAY, an enterprising citizen of Knox Township, where he resides on section 5, was born in McLean County, Illinois, September 28, 1839. His parents, Aquilla and Rachel (Barnett) Conaway, were natives of Maryland and Kentucky respectively. Our subject was the youngest in a family of nine children, whose names are as follows – Catharine, Milton, James H., William, Providence, Aquilla, Margaret A., Nancy Jane and Warren. Warren Conaway remained on the home farm in McLean County till eighteen years of age, his education being received in the common schools of his native county.  At the age of eighteen years he removed with his parents to Daviess County, Missouri, living there till the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion, when he enlisted in the Forty-eighth Missouri State Militia. He served four years, engaged in fighting the bushwhackers and guerrillas, and in guarding the rights of loyal citizens. He left Daviess County in 1870, when he came to Clarke County, Iowa, and located on his present farm, in Knox Township, which contains 160 acres of highly cultivated land, and has since been engaged in farming and stock-raising. He has a good, comfortable residence, commodious barn and out-buildings for his stock.  Mr. Conaway was married to Elizabeth Ann Day, December 29, 1864, and to this union have been born seven children – Irwin Edgar, Armilda E., Emma L., Elmer Herman, Nova C., Roscoe and Marcella. Mr. Conaway started in life without means, but by his untiring industry and persevering energy he has made his present fine property, and is to-day classed among the representative men of Knox Township.

SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Record of Clarke County, Iowa, Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1886 p. 232-3