I received tha following information on a Thomas Calvert who died in Ida County, Iowa. It may assist someone. Jim Calvert >From: Dan & Marilyn Dose <[email protected]> >To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> >Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:26:52 -0500 >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail2.jps.net id >JAA10376 > >Hello Jim > >I saw your query on the Ida County page and the Thomas Calvert on the 1870 >census is the following; > >April 16,1880 Era >Last Saturday evening about 5 o'clock, Thomas Calvert, who has resided in >this county for the last 12 years, making his home at O. Waterman's and W. >Wilkinson's most of the time, was riding a horse full speed over the prairie >when the animal fell, throwing him forty feet. He struck his head and >shoulders causing him a very severe concussion, paralysis and loss of >sensation in the extremities by injury of the cervical portion of the spine. >He was taken to the house of Joseph Keen on Ed Wilkinson's farm, by Mr. Keen >who was with him at the time. He rallied and seemed to feel much better >until 12 o'clock Sunday night when he had a slight spasm and died within an >hour from hemorraghe upon the base of the brain and cervical part of the spine. >The deceased was 34 years old at the time of his death, single and had no >relatives in this country. He was a steady, industrious man and his untimely >death brings saddness to many a heart. > > >The courthouse records were destroyed by fire prior to June of 1880, so no >other record could be found on him. > >Marilyn Dose >[email protected] > >I also saw listed Townsend for who you were looking for. >In Ida County there was a Zella Townsend who died May 2,1923 >