This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MELENDY, MORGAN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vk.2ADE/137.664.1 Message Board Post: There is one MORGAN reference in the booklet regarding the ceremony celebrating the starting of the Iowa Central road in 1865. The road was never built however. "The ringing of bells and firing of cannon ceased, and Peter Melendy announced that the great event of breaking ground was about to take place. The president of the road, Hon. David Morgan of Oskaloosa, threw the first shovelful."