Josiah Houdescheldt, one of the first settlers of Mills county, Iowa, removing to that state from Virginia in 1856. He was a soldier of the Civil war, enlisting in the Fifteenth Iowa Infantry. He held membership in the Christian church and died in that faith in 1872, when fifty-two years of age. His wife passed away in Mills county, Iowa, on the 22d of February, 1869, when forty-five years of age, loved and respected by all who knew her.
SOURCE: A Biographical And Genealogical History Of Southeastern Nebraska, Volume 2, p. 750, abstracted from the biographical sketch of Peter D. Starr.
