Biography of Thomas Nathaniel Garten
Sarah Jane Garten, living in Union township, Nodaway county, is the widow of Thomas Nathaniel Garten, who was born in Virginia in 1828 and whose death occurred on April 19, 1884, at the age of fifty-six years, three months and twelve days. In Daviess county, Indiana, he married Sarah Jane Simonson when she was twenty-four years of age and he was ten years older. They began their married life on a rented farm in Indiana, later coming to Nodaway county. Missouri, locating on the farm where Mrs. Garten now resides; on the land was a small log house and only …