STORM, John G.^[1]

1842 - 1944  (102 years)

• Name	STORM, John G.
  Birth	4 Jul 1842	Twin Townships, Ross, Ohio, United States   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	13 Sep 1850	Twin Townships, Ross, Ohio, United States   [2]
  Residence	3 Jul 1860	Bourneville, Ross, Ohio, United States   [3]
  	Attended school and worked on the farm
  Mil Draft Reg	Jun 1863	Twin Townships, Ross, Ohio, United States   [4]
  Death	29 Jul 1944	Lone Tree, Clay, Iowa, United States
  Burial	Lone Tree, Johnson, Iowa, United States   [1]
  	Address: Lone Tree Cemetery
  Person ID	I10235	Pickel_Bartlett
  Last Modified	15 Feb 2014

  
  

  Father	STORM, Jacob,   b. 1802, Berkley Springs, Berkeley, Virginia, United States d. 25 Nov 1850, Twin Townships, Ross, Ohio, United States (Age 48 years)
  Mother	KEANE, Hannah,   b. 1810, Spargursville, Ross, Ohio, United States d. 28 Jul 1895, Letts, Louisa, Iowa, United States (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	8 Sep 1835	Ross County, Ohio, United States   [5]
  Residence	13 Sep 1850	Twin Townships, Ross, Ohio, United States   [2]
  	Farmer
  Family ID	F2887	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	HELM, Bertha Elizabeth,   b. Sep 1860, Iowa d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	8 Mar 1881	Muscatine County, Iowa, United States   [6, 7]
  Residence	27 Jun 1900	Fremont Twn, Johnson, Iowa, United States   [6]
  	Farmer
  	Listed as John and Berthie E. Storms, they had been married for nineteen years and all three children were still living.
  Residence	16 Apr 1910	Fremont Twn, Johnson, Iowa, United States   [8]
  	Listed as John and Elizabeth Storm
  Children	1. STORM, Gertrude,   b. Jul 1882, Iowa d. Yes, date unknown   2. STORM, Frank,   b. Jul 1884, Iowa d. Yes, date unknown   3. STORM, Brunette,   b. Apr 1889, Iowa d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F3088	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 May 2022

  
  

• Notes

  The following is a letter that was written by John Storm's daughter on the occasion of John's 91st birthday. It was sent to members of my branch of the Storm Family, but I am unsure who else received it. That is why I feel it is important to have it published on John's Find A Grave page--so this information is not lost. I hope you enjoy reading it.--The best,--William Dodd Brown. The letter begins: John Storm, resident Lone Tree, Iowa on July 4th [1933] rounded out four score ten and one years. He was the son of Jake and Hannah (Keane) Storm, of Dutch [i.e. German] ancestry.. [Remembering his old home] Father often related how proud his own mother was of their first stove. Leading up to the loft on the outside was a ladder. As boys, when going to bed, they had to go outside in the snow and climb up the ladder to their beds. They always slept between feather beds to keep warm. There [in Ross County, Ohio] father attended school, the school house was built of logs with dirt floors. The benches were hewn of timber, the window was covered with paper. Often in the cold weather they would freeze out and would have to go home. The school session was only for three months in the winter. The teacher was paid in produce by the patrons, his mother paying hers with dried apples. When Father was 8 years old, he used to ride on one horse and lead another around and around over the grain to thrash it. Some of the amusements of their time were spinning parties, quilting bees, husking bees, wood chopping and log rolling bees.  One of the favorite stories of the [Civil] war we used to like for Father to tell, was when the Morgan raiders came near the Ohio border and how he, being too young to go to war, went with the volunteers, to guard against the raiders. I might go on thus with snatches of the sturdy pioneer life of Father's ninety-one years. His has been a life of peace and patience. His motto: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." My sister, Mrs. Nettie Storm Nichols and myself are only the second generation since our grandmother's birth in [1810]. We both would be happy if no greater favor would be granted from our God than to be privileged to attain Father's 91 years and to retain the mental, moral and physical precepts of life which he has. Thus, I am very happy to have contributed these few memories of my Father. -From a letter written by Mrs. J. A. (Gertrude "Georgia" Dale Storm) Gunderson, July 4, 1933. In another part of her letter, Mrs. Gunderson added the following: "Father, John Storm, married in the year 1881 [on March 8]. He brought his bride to [Johnson] County. He bought a one hundred and sixty acre farm located in the extreme southeast corner adjacent to Muscatine and Louisa Counties. He remained there until the year 1910 when he moved to present home at Lone Tree, Iowa. After the tragic death of my brother Frank in 1916 [he was struck by lightning on July 14], he sold the farm."

  
  

• Sources

  [S109] Find-a-Grave website, Memorial# 73900297. [S76] 1850 Federal Census, Twin Townships, Ross, Ohio, Ancestry Page 16 of 49, Dwelling 512. [S316] 1860 Federal Census, Bourneville, Ross, Ohio Page 60 Dwelling 416. [S102] Cer, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865); Record Group: 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War); Collection Name: Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records); ARC Identifier: 4213514; Archive Volume Number: 2 of 4. [S78] Ann-Guinn-Adamson-Ancestry, Sturm / Storm Information, Ohio Marriage Records 1798 - 1825. [S110] 1900 Federal Census, Fremont Twn, Johnson, Iowa ED 76 Page 15B Dwelling 328. [S102] Cer, Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp.. Iowa, Marriages, 1851-1900. [S74] Ancestry.com, Fremont Twn, Johnson, Iowa, ED 81 Page 4B Dwelling 84.