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Joseph and Elizabeth McAninch came to Lotts Creek township, Ringgold county, Iowa in 1866.

Joseph had been converted as a Methodist in 1837 when he was sixteen years old. After settling in

Ringgold county Joseph and a brother, Enoch G. [George] McAninch, helped build the Methodist

church at Caledonia in 1872 [Note 7] and Joseph remained a faithful Methodist the rest of his life.

By 1880 there were four separate households of the Joseph and Elizabeth McAninch family living

in Lotts Creek township, all of them east of Ringgold City.

Before discussing the descendants of Joseph and Elizabeth that are buried in Ringgold cemetery,

it might be well to point out some other family connections.

In the north central area of the cemetery, near the Joseph and Elizabeth McAninch burial stones,.

are the stones of John S. Harlan and Arminta Harlan. John S. Harlan (1823--1908) was born in

North Carolina and on 11 January 1849 was married to Miss Polly Susannah McAninch in

Putnam county, Indiana [Note 6]. Polly Susannah McAninch was a sister of Joseph P. McAninch.

After the birth of two children Polly died on 24 December 1853 and was buried in Indiana.

On 19 January 1857, John S. Harlan married, 2nd, Arminta McAninch [6], a sister of

Polly Susannah and Joseph McAninch.

They had six children. John S. and Arminta (McAninch) Harlan settled in Lotts Creek township in.

1874. John S. Harlan had been raised in the Quaker faith but probably identified with the Methodist

church after moving to Ringgold county. He served as Lotts Creek township clerk for eleven years.

John B. Harlan, a son of John S. and Arminta Harlan, died at age twenty five in 1890 and is buried

beside his parents. John B. Harlan was married to Lueretia (or Lucretia) A. Jarred on 18 December

1887. Rev. Frank S. Locke, pastor of Ringgold Evangelical church, performed the ceremony.

John and Lueretia had an infant son born 4 June 1889, name and fate unknown to the writer [1]

Jess E. Harlan (1872-1958), another son of John S. and Arminta Harlan, and his wife Rose E.

Harlan (1880-1955) are buried in the eastern area of the cemetery toward the north. They had

twin daughters, O. F. Harlan and S. O. Harlan [2], born 12 January 1904. O. F. died at about two

weeks, S. O. lived until 24 June 1911. The little girls are buried near their parents. [8]

Ohlen G. Harlan, who died in 1912 before his second birthday, is a son of Stephen and

Mina A. (Ingram) Harlan, who were married 3 February 1910. [9] [pg. 78]

Just to the south of the Joseph and Elizabeth McAninch graves is the grave of Esther Quiett,

who died in January 1895 at age ninety. Esther Quiett was the mother of Elizabeth McAninch.

Now to resume the direct McAninch descendants of Joseph and Elizabeth McAninch,

the founders of the McAninch family in Ringgold county, Iowa.

Ringgold City, 1844-2002: From First Settlement to Forgotten Community, Raymond V. Banner

McAninch Family History NL, v.X.n.3 July 2002 Frank McAninch, Editor page 2002-21