Hi List, In looking for my ancestor Joseph Bray naturalization I find myself with a Declaration of Intention Record for Ole Jansen a native of Denmark saying that he landed in the United States on or about the 27 day of August 1870 and it says on this 4 day of February 1875. This is The State of Iowa Black Hawk County. On the same copy is The State of Illinois Greene Count for Joseph Bray a native of Great Britain and that says on this 25 day of May 1872. According to the National Archives and Records Administration what may well be MY ancestor Joseph Bray the certificate no (or Vol and page) Vol. I P. 480 and Title and location of court is Iowa Dist. Black Hawk Co. Iowa, Waterloo. Country of birth or allegiance England and Date of naturalization is Oct. 2. 1877. The Greene County Bray may or may not be mine? Won't know until I somehow arrange to get what is available at the Waterloo Clerk of Court but this one in Black Hawk certainly should be as he married in Black Hawk, Lincoln Twp in 1873, had kids in Black Hawk before removing to Wright Co. I did a quick search for Ole Jansen on ancestry, haven't checked HQ or other yet and that gave no Ole for Black Hawk but did return one in the 1885 26, Birth Demark, IA, Plymouth Co., America Twp, LeMars Third Ward but says Alien Without First Papers. ? Must not be this Ole. Anyone recognize this Ole I have this paper for? Barb

My 1/2 sister, Josephine (Bolt) Dykeman died at 92 last night. She lived in Waterloo. Mr & Mrs Dykeman started the Funeral home there many yrs ago. Its long sold I think. I would like to ask someone to either scan or get a copy of the full Obit when it gets in. Dick in MD

Here is the search for the Des Moines Register http://desmoinesregister.com/obituaries/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: <dickbolt@his.com> To: <IABLACKH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 2:07 PM Subject: [IABLACKH] Waterloo Obit >Likely in todays or tomorrows paper > > My 1/2 sister, Josephine (Bolt) Dykeman died at 92 last night. She lived in > Waterloo. Mr & Mrs Dykeman started the Funeral home there many yrs ago. Its > long sold I think. > I would like to ask someone to either scan or get a copy of the full Obit when > it gets in. > Dick in MD > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

Hi Again Dick, If a death notice gives the funeral home many now have a full obituary on their site too. If you know the funeral home or see it in the death notice that might be a way to get it. It might even be in a Des Moines Iowa paper within a day or so, the Des Moines Register most likely. Let me know if you need help to see and I'll sure try. There's no way I can go to Waterloo but might be able to help via online. Barb ----- Original Message ----- From: <dickbolt@his.com> To: <IABLACKH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 2:07 PM Subject: [IABLACKH] Waterloo Obit >Likely in todays or tomorrows paper > > My 1/2 sister, Josephine (Bolt) Dykeman died at 92 last night. She lived in > Waterloo. Mr & Mrs Dykeman started the Funeral home there many yrs ago. Its > long sold I think. > I would like to ask someone to either scan or get a copy of the full Obit when > it gets in. > Dick in MD > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

Hello Dick, My sympathy to you in the loss of your sister. The Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier-online Edition has death notices and in the col' on the left where it says Search Archives, if you wait until tomorrow and then type the word obituaries into the box above Search Archives it'll take you to a page where there are death notices. Today they have them for March 14, 15 and 11. If you click where it says Death Notices --- March 14, 2004 for example Place and name, age etc of those that died and when. A lot of papers anymore just do a death notice unless a family pays for putting in an obituary. I'll try to remember to look also. Here is the URL for the Courier http://www.wcfcourier.com/ Barb Drummer ----- Original Message ----- From: <dickbolt@his.com> To: <IABLACKH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 2:07 PM Subject: [IABLACKH] Waterloo Obit >Likely in todays or tomorrows paper > > My 1/2 sister, Josephine (Bolt) Dykeman died at 92 last night. She lived in > Waterloo. Mr & Mrs Dykeman started the Funeral home there many yrs ago. Its > long sold I think. > I would like to ask someone to either scan or get a copy of the full Obit when > it gets in. > Dick in MD > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

Looking for help with the family of Almenda DeVoe who marr. David Dockerty 3-8-1872 . Not really sure what county they lived in, this is why I am looking for help. Thank you, Duane -- Donna & Duane DeVoe Come Visit Lena, Illinois! http://www.villageoflena.com

I WOULD THINK BOB DEVOE WOULD BE YOUR BEST BET TO HELP YOU WITH LOREN DEVOE. HE IS IN CEDAR FALLS JUST NEXT TO H2O'LOO. I AM IN AZ. ALTHO I WENT TO SCHOOL IN WATERLOO.,AS DID BOB D. I AM A FEW YEARS YOUNGER THAN BOB DEVOE.I WOULD THINK HE WOULD HAVE INFO THAT SHOULD HELP. COULD IT BE POSSIBLE THE SALVATION ARMY WOULD HAVE ANY RECORDS WHICH MAY BE HELPFULL? DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL IN FREEPORT? IF SO DO YOU REMEMBER A TEACHER AT FREEPORT HI BY THE NAME OF LAVON SHUNK(ENGLISH I THINK)? FREEPORT IS A NICE TOWN. I DON'T THINK I'VE BEEN IN LENA. MY MOM WAS RAISED IN WHAT THEY CALLED THE "BLOODY THIRD WARD" (THAT WAS BACK IN THE EARLY 1900'STHO.SHE LIVED ON DELAWARE ST.(ITHINK IT HAS BEEN RENAMED HOWEVER.) GENEALOGY IS A BUG THAT BIT'S AND IT IS A HARD FEVER TO CURE.. I'M AN HOUR EARLIER THAN YOU. ALMOST TIME TO HIT THE HAY. GIVE BOB A CALL. LET ME KNOW HOW YOU MAKE OUT. MS. GLEASON WORKS IN THE HISTORY ROOM AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. A VERY HELPFUL PERSON. BOB

-- Donna & Duane DeVoe Come Visit Lena, Illinois! http://www.villageoflena.com >>> RNAN3815@aol.com 1/17/04 9:03:42 PM >>> YOU'RE A VERY BUSY FELLOW. BOB I am 62, employed at a local weekly paper, work 2- 3 days a week. I am into stamp collecting, and have 4 tables of model trains in the basement to take me away from the rat-race. I enjoy this hobby which was shelved for a few months. I need to dig into my ggrandfather's third wife's location. The couple lived in Waterloo when he died in 1916. His grave is unmarked, family had little money, when his internment was handled by the Salvation Army. His name was Loren DeVoe. His wife was Ariel Theodosia (Howe). I don't know where she is buried, she was living when he died. A funny thing, her parents are buried in a country cem. about 6 miles to the west of us here in northern Il. Thanks for all your help, Duane ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

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Looking for relatives to help fill in the spaces. Anson Curtis was b. 9-21-1853 Fayette Co. He d. 4-26-1936 in Waterloo and bur. in Page Co. He marr. 1st to Mary Elizabeth Smith. Later he marr Alice Dreuman in March 1894. I am looking for relatives to help me get this all straight! Can you help? Thank you, Duane -- Donna & Duane DeVoe Come Visit Lena, Illinois! http://www.villageoflena.com

Looking for info and relatives of Eugene C. and Dora (Steely) DeVoe Eugene, b. 1885 d. 1931 bur. Waterloo Cem. Dora b. 3-27-1864 d. 10-9-1958 bur. waterloo. Could someone find their obit, please? Thank you, Duane -- Donna & Duane DeVoe Come Visit Lena, Illinois! http://www.villageoflena.com

Thank you, Jack. I'm hoping to find her funeral reports about how she died, but can't find anything on Petersen Bros. Chapel or funeral home. Thank you. Diane Shands

Diane - I believe the county hospital at that time was an isolation hospital for infectious diseases. I was a patient in that hospital in 1946 with suspected polio. Jack Lane ----- Original Message ----- From: <Diane3224@aol.com> To: <IABLACKH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 9:53 AM Subject: [IABLACKH] Obit /cemetery/hospital Question > > Hi. My grandmother supposedly died in the Black Hawk CO. hospital November > 1, a Sunday, of 1942. Volunteers have found a couple obits for me on two > different Hazel Pablo's, a Hazel Jean Pablo (63) and a Hazel Pablo (24). Both were > divorced at the time of their death. The Hazel Jean was born in Germany, as > well as her parents and their last name was WEHMEYER. My grandmother's last > name was WEBBER and her family were all born in Linn CO., IA. I'm confused > because both obit's, and I've received many different wordings of them, say they > were both buried at Hillcrest Cemetery (Blackhawk CO. Cemetery). There is one > gravemarker. I don't know which Hazel this is. Does anyone have this > cemetery address that I can write to for records? And what was the Blackhawk County > Hosptial? Was this a public hospital or mental hospital? > > Thank you so much for all help. > Diane Shands > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Hi.  My grandmother supposedly died in the Black Hawk CO. hospital November 1, a Sunday, of 1942.  Volunteers have found a couple obits for me on two different Hazel Pablo's, a Hazel Jean Pablo (63) and a Hazel Pablo (24).  Both were divorced at the time of their death.  The Hazel Jean was born in Germany, as well as her parents and their last name was WEHMEYER.  My grandmother's  last name was WEBBER and her family were all born in Linn CO., IA. I'm confused because both obit's, and I've received many different wordings of them, say they were both buried at Hillcrest Cemetery (Blackhawk CO. Cemetery).  There is one gravemarker.  I don't know  which Hazel this is. Does anyone have this cemetery address that I can write to for records?  And what was the Blackhawk County Hosptial?  Was this a public hospital or mental hospital? Thank you so much for all help. Diane Shands

Thank you SO MUCH !! ----- Original Message ----- From: "JudyK Mitchell" <nofasum@yahoo.com> To: <IABLACKH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 11:13 PM Subject: [IABLACKH] Re: IABLACKH-D Digest V03 #54 > If you have a date of death, you could contact the > librarian at the Waterloo Courier: wcfcourier@aol.com > > There is a small fee for receiving a photo copy (it > was $2.00 the last time I used this service.) > > Judy Mitchell > > > > > Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:09:55 -0600 > > From: "ed meyerhofer" <chick70@netins.net> > > To: IABLACKH-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [IABLACKH] OBIT LOOKUPS > > > > Is there anyone who is available to do obit lookups? > > > > I`ve tried the person at Black Hawk county Gen Web > > site and getno response. > > > > thanks, > > CJ > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard > http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

If you have a date of death, you could contact the librarian at the Waterloo Courier: wcfcourier@aol.com There is a small fee for receiving a photo copy (it was $2.00 the last time I used this service.) Judy Mitchell > Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:09:55 -0600 > From: "ed meyerhofer" <chick70@netins.net> > To: IABLACKH-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [IABLACKH] OBIT LOOKUPS > > Is there anyone who is available to do obit lookups? > > I`ve tried the person at Black Hawk county Gen Web > site and getno response. > > thanks, > CJ > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree

Is there anyone who is available to do obit lookups? I`ve tried the person at Black Hawk county Gen Web site and getno response. thanks, CJ

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Looking for any info on Henry Caesar & family, in 1880 census, Orange, Blackhawk, Iowa. Henry born Ireland, all the rest born Canada. Marriage, Death, Burials any & all information very much appreciated. Murray Ceaser Ontario, Canada.

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