Posted on: Chickasaw County Iowa Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ia/Chickasaw/488 Surname: Smith, Kelly, Short ------------------------- The records went to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Lawler, Iowa. Because St. Ignatius Church as Sacred Heart was called in 1857, burned down in 1910, the earliest records are gone. I was told there were records saved from about 1900.