Mrs. Susana FORSYTH, of Crescent Township, was born in Alabama, April 27, 1827, a daughter of Jeremiah FOWLER, a well-to-do farmer, of German descent. Her parents had four sons and five daughters. Her father married Miss Sarah JOHNSON, whose parents were residents of Kentucky. Mr. FOWLER removed from Tennessee to Williamson County, Illinois, and settled upon a farm which he had bought and lived there until his wife's death, in 1836. Then one of the daughters, Elizabeth, kept house for the next two years. He then sold his farm, married again, and after that his children resided elsewhere.

The subject of this sketch then lived with her sister Elizabeth until her death; and then for a year with old acquaintances; and then her youngest sister, Lucinda, married, and she lived with her two years; in the meantime they moved to St. Clair County, Illinois, and also Mrs. FORSYTH worked around among neighbors to some extent.

After a residence elsewhere for a time she married J. S. FARRIS, March 1, 1846, and the first two years of their married life were passed upon the farm of John Griffin, with whom Mrs. FORSYTH had been living; then a year near Fayetteville, which locality was so unhealthful that they sold out there and moved to Iowa, landing at Bellevue. Going out into the country about fifteen miles, Mr. FARRIS bought a farm of 145 acres of unimproved land in Jackson County, and he resided upon it eight years, improving it; selling out again he started to Saratoga, but, stopping in Decatur County, he followed farming there one year, near Garden Grove.

In the fall Mr. FARRIS enlisted for three years, or during the war, in the Union army; and two weeks before he left for the battle-field they lost their infant child.

During her husband's absence in the army, the subject of this sketch moved to Franklin, and two years afterward came to Pottawattamie County, on a visit.

Returning to her farm, she sold it and then moved to Crescent City, this county, where, December 26, 1864, she married John FORSYTH, a blacksmith by trade. His parents were natives of Scotland. In 1866 they sold their property there and purchased eighty acres of unimproved land on section 12, same township, and began to make all the improvements for a comfortable home. They built a two-story brick house, barns, sheds, etc., planted a grove and orchard, erected a blacksmith shop and a house in which to carry on his trade.

Mrs. FORSYTH is the mother of seven children, three of whom are deceased. Mr. FORSYTH died in the spring of 1874, since which time Mrs. FORSYTH has superintended the farm as well as the house.

By industry and economy she has managed to keep her family together and support it, although her struggle has been severe and protracted.

Contributed By: Mona Sarratt-Knight