(From HISTORY OF MITCHELL AND WORTH COUNTIES, IOWA, 1883, Page 796)

Avery Cole settled in Worth county in the fall of 1877. He was born in Morrow Co., Ohio, March 4, 1851. His parents moved to Illinois in 1852 ; then moved to Ogle Co., Ill., and remained until 1872. He married Elizabeth Scott, Oct. 19, 1870. They moved to Atchison Co., Kan., but only remained eighteen months. The grasshoppers having destroyed everything, they returned to Ogle Co., Ill., and re­mained three years. They then came to their present home in Lincoln township. His wife died in Kansas, May, 19 1873, leaving one child-Rosie E., born July 26, 1871. He was again married to Martha Jones, born in Illinois in 1851. They have one son-Freddie, born Sept. 29, 1876.

Transcribed by Gordon Felland, March 11, 2006