Pendroy Surname History Information  

During the Civil War,  Red Rock, Iowa produced many Union army  volunteers including John W. Pendroy who joined the 14th Iowa Vol. Infantry - Company E at age 22.  John Wiseman Pendroy was the son of James and Mary Ann (Wiseman) Pendroy   and after the war ended John W. Pendroy married Mary E. Goyer 28 Feb 1867 in Union County Illinois.

The frontier river town of Red Rock, Iowa began around the mid 1840's as settlers were allowed west of the "Red Rock Line"   defined by the 1842 Indian treaty. Population grew from its birth in the 1840's to an 1870 population of 250 including sawmills, a flour mill, two general stores, a doctor, a hotel, a schoolhouse built in 1854, a Methodist Episcopal Church built in 1855, and a post office.   

Civil War Era Steamboat   "Bertrand"

.......The scourge of Red Rock was periodic flooding of the Des Moines River.....When the steamboats came after the flood of 1851, Red Rock briefly had high hopes of becoming an important river port in that area, but once again it suffered disappointment. The steamboats stopped instead at nearby Coalport where a great meander in the river proved a better landing place...

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