JOSEPH HEADLEE, farmer, P. O. Avoca, was born in Pennsylvania in 1826, son of Joshua and Dorothy (Jones) Headlee, he a farmer, died in Indiana; she is living in Avoca, Iowa; the parents had three daughters and five sons.

Mr. Headlee removed, with his parents, from Pennsylvania to Indiana, remaining in the latter till he was about fifteen years old, when he came to Iowa. He lived nine miles from Keokuk till 1852, when he settled in Knox Township, Pottawattamie County; thence, in 1862, he came to his present farm of 160 acres, in Valley Township.

Mr. Headlee was married, in 1862, near Keokuk, Iowa, to Esther Lewis, born in Ohio; she has blessed him with eleven children--five boys and six girls, one of each sex being dead.

When Mr. Headlee first came to Pottawattamie County, he had a yoke of cattle and a wagon, which he bought in a year's time, and 15 cents in money; he now has a good property. Mr. Headlee espouses the Republican cause.