Gifford-Butte Family Home Page

my principle families are:gifford,butte, beard.bryant,cormack,doellinger,gosshauer.johannings,jones,king.kirkpatrick,lattimore,lively,mclaurine,nandorf,orr,perrott,
peterfee,rae,renfro,roundy,rudorfs,shivers,steger,stoes.voysey,
woodfin,young.

however,my main activity now is finding the father of edmund j.
gifford,my great grandfather-b utica ny,28 apr 1830; lagrange
collegiate inst. 1850,lima oh;muscatine ia 1852;m. nancy ann renfro warren rock island il 1858;divorced nancy 25 oct 1871/2
rock island with son,edmund h.;1st iowa inf 1861;m josephine
johnson westcott grand rapids mi 7 aug 1973;dau una v.gifford
hendrix b 4 jun 1874 ionia mi; josephine died 2 may 1895 pet-
osky mi;edmund j.' died 30 nov 1903 bismark nd;nancy renfro
warren gifford lindeman died 18 may 1919 davenport ia, widow of
judge rufus lindeman. can you help me?