Don Price---my grandfather, his sister Gladys, and her husband Vern Binning visiting him and my Grandmother Helene. Dad was probably still in San Diego, recovering from an injury that left him blind in his left eye. (Accident during his training with Marine Corps, Camp Pendleton, CA) Thanks Barry, Sherry > [Original Message] > From: <BRWest@aol.com> > To: <IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 6/26/2005 7:09:01 PM > Subject: [IADECATU] Good Hope March 18, 1943 Leon Journal-Reporter > > found in grandmother West's scrapbook > Barry West > > Good Hope > Mar. 15- Gale Schuldt returned Wednesday evening for a ten day furlough with > his parents., Mr. and Mrs. Chris Schuldt. > > Mr. and Mrs. Will Lewis spent sSunday with their son, Reece Lewis and wife. > > Bud Snow and family moved Monday from Winterset to the Bert Binning farm > where he has employment for the year. > > Mr. and Mrs. Snook of Grand River visited Saturday at the Vern Binning home. > > Mrs. Bessie Cross and children were Osceola callers Saturday. > > Vern Binning and family spent Sunday at the Donald Price home. > > Vern Binning and family, Donald Morris and family, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Morris > and Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Schuster were supper guests at the home of Mr. and > Mrs. Chris Schuldt and son Gale. > > Friends from Des Moines were calling at the Christ Schuldt home Sunday. > > > ==== IADECATU Mailing List ==== > Stacey Dietiker, Momdit@aol.com: Decatur County List Administrator, > Website Coordinator, Decatur County IA Genweb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&ta rgetid=5429

Hello List, If anyone is connected, please contact this person. The person did not give a name, but the email is: Cwisecupd@aol.com Thanks, Deborah Subj: (no subject)  Date: 6/26/05 6:12:31 AM Pacific Daylight Time From: Cwisecupd To: Alohawahine75      My wife is the grandaughter of Paul D. Rumley of Leon, Iowa  and great granddaughter of Clarence and Columbia Rumley of Leon, Iowa     Do you have any information on either of these two familys  all i know about clarence or some papers call him charlie had 8 kids david, eva, leroy, walter , homer, pearl, howard, and clarence.  and paul i have almost nothing on except he was married to etta davenport had 4 kids leo, maxine, darelene and Iola  they divorced and went back to leon and remarried.    Any infromation would help thank you.           

Try spaces.msn.com/members/fentonscheetz/<http://spaces.msn.com/members/fentonscheetz/> if it doesn't work cut and paste in your browser or type it in. You may need to put http:// in front of it. Craig Fenton ----- Original Message ----- From: Ggma98@aol.com<mailto:Ggma98@aol.com> To: Blumax_63@msn.com<mailto:Blumax_63@msn.com> Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 1:10 AM Subject: Re: [IADECATU] Elm Cemetery - Church Can't get to the pictures site.

Leon Journal-Reporter found in grandmother West's scrapbook Barry West Last Civil War Veteran at Council Bluffs Was Ninety-Seven ___________________________________________ Sylvester Ellis Flummer, 97, the last surviving Civil War veteran of Pottawattamie county, died at his home in council Bluffs March 10 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Bessie Grosvenor. He was the father of William Flummer of Morgan Center. Mr. Flummer left Tuesday of last week to see his father. Funeral services were held Saturday at Council Bluffs with interment in the Cedar Lawn cemetery. Miss Josephine Flummer, Albert Flummer and Mrs. Gerald Perkins of near Leon, attended the funeral services of their grandfather. Mr. Flummer is a past commander and for four years had been the sole surviving member of Abe Lincoln post No. 29, G. A. R. at one time one of the largest G. A. R. posts in the west. "My Civil War experiences were very unusual due to the fact that I was never in an active battle," he related at a birthday party held in his honor attended by more than 500 people September 19, 1940, in the national guard armory at Council Bluffs. He was on the march during the first six months of his service, most of the time with General Sherman. In his second enlistment of three years service he helped hold fort at Gallatin and Chattanooga, Tennessee. Because of improper food, Mr. Flummer's health was impaired. With his health growing worse, he and others who were ill were left practically uncarred for at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Ill, discouraged and homesick, Mr. Flummer left one day, walking and struggling, and arrived at a government post four days later, where a Mr. and Mrs. Ballard nursed him back to health in the attic of their log cabin. Mr. Flummer leaves another daughter, Mrs. Cora Hailey, Rea, Missouri. He is survived by ten grandchildren including Pfc. Will S. Flummer of Leon, now in action with the United States Forces in North Africa.

Hello Everybody, Is there any chance that there is a record of Wilson Throckmorton, (b in Ohio and came to Terre Haute, IA with his wife Emily and children Minnie, Sadie, Rose, Belle and Elmer) a preacher of M.E. faith, of his marriages, funerals, etc.? I suspicion that he married his daughter Minnie J. to Thomas Chasey but can't find any record of it around 1870. Thomas Chasey and Minnie Throckmorton's first child was Charles Chasey born 30 September 1871. According to Wilson's obit he came from Clarke County and was ordained in the M.P. Church in 1868 so he would of been a preacher to marry his daughter Minnie and Thomas Chasey. Thanking you in advance, Jean Smile And The World Smiles Too.

I am seeking further information on the surname of HYATT and MILBURN from Decatur Co., Iowa. Also seeking DANIELSON'S from Decatur Co., Iowa. If anyone can help me out it would greatly be appreciated. Herbert HYATT b: abt. 1881 d: Father: Isaac W. HYATT b: Abt 1852 in Knox Co., Ohio d: 10 Mar 1935 in Polk Co., Des Moines, Iowa Mother: Hattie C. MCKINNY b: 10 Jan 1857 d: 1926 Spouse: ? If anyone can help me out with this family line it would greatly be appreciated especially about the parents of Herbert HYATT and his sibblings and perhaps his spouse. Gwen

found in grandmother West's scrapbook Barry West Meet at Four Decatur County Farm Homes This Week _____________________- Wartime bread baking will be the theme of a series of demonstrations to be given in Decatur county next week. Miss Frances Hattler, extension nutritionists will conduct the demonstrations. The schedule for the week is as follows: Tuesday, March 23, at the home of Mrs. L. E. Parsons, Garden Grove, High Point township. Wednesday, March 24, at the home of Mrs. Irvin Bathe, Lamoni, Fayette township. Thursday, March 25, at the home of Mrs. Fred B. Lewis, Grand River, Long Creek township. Friday, March 26, at the home of Manchester Brothers, Leon, Eden Township. Miss hettler has conducted a large number of these demonstrations and women who have attended them have found her to be most practical and up-to-date. Her experience in the field of nutrition has enabled her to be a great help to the housewife faced with adjustments in the food program brought on by rationing.

Leon journal-Reporter March 18, 1943 Found in grandmother West's Scrapbook Barry West Bullet Broke glass in Both Doors of Fred Lysinger car Friday Night A stray bullet barely missed Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lysinger of Lamoni in the south part of that city on Highway 69 Sunday at 9:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Lysinger were riding in their car enroute north toward their home when a bullet entered through the right hand glass within six inches of Mr. Lysinger head and went through the glass of the left door, also just missing Mrs. Lysinger's head. Glass was shattered for both doors in their laps. Although Deputy Sheriff John A. Fulton investigated the mysterious shot, so far, it has not been learned whether the bullet was fired from a gun in the hands of a boy, or whether is was of accidentally by an adult.

from grandmother West's Scrapbook Barry West Sports Oddity This official refereed a basket ball game from a balcony! The official was Coach Leo Hoffman, high school athletic instructor here. The balcony overlooked Graceland college's court at Lamoni. Hoffman, suffering from a torn muscle incurred while officiating at the Graceland-Centerville junior college game last week, refused to let the injury hamper him. Supplied with a megaphone and aided by Graceland's assistant coach, Walden, who handled the ball on the floor, Mr. Hoffman very efficiently refereed the remaining quarter of the game.

from grandmother West's scrapbook Barry West Pen Drippings _____________ With students: Maxine Roberts. '35 grad, has enrolled as post graduate here in typing and shorthand classes...Helen McGee and Anna Brolin, former graduates visited school here last week...Vivian Conner, also an alumna, visited here the art class recently... The girls' sextet sang for the Esquire club last Friday evening and were entertained by the club at dinner. Concerning Our Classes: Freshman English classes are receiving free outside literature through the assistance of Mr. Blair... the freshman manual training class will soon take up the use of the lathe...the biology class had floor talks last week on three subjects, conjugation, fertilization and maturation. They were permitted to use blackboard illustrations. Obserbations Reveal: Harley Higdon, local center, was named on the Des Moines Tribune honor roll for outstanding playing in the Leon-Lamoni game last Friday... the state spring music contest will continue to be held at Iowa City.

Decatur County Pictures Fenton Crockett McMurtrey<http://spaces.msn.com/members/fentonscheetz/> I finally got the family albums scanned and to a web page. Anyone with Decatur Wayne Co. IA ties should look at these pictures. There are a lot of "unknown persons" Stacy, please feel free to link this page to the Decatur Co. site. Craig Fenton ----- Original Message ----- From: OttO<mailto:motorott33@mchsi.com> To: Craig Fenton<mailto:BluMax_63@msn.com> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 2:11 PM Subject: Re: [IADECATU] Elm Cemetery - Church Reading your request about the Elm Church records made me think back a few years. That Church, I believe, was standing in 1950. Do you remember it? I just copied some pictures from the Decatur County web, that you sent to them a few months ago. I am related to Mary Elizabeth Fenton, wife of James. She was my 1st cousin, 4 times removed. She was the Granddaughter of William J. Crockett and Mary Robinson, which makes her my 1st cousin 4 times removed. You also had a picture of Dandridge Alexander Robinson. Dan was born May 18 1844 in Putnam County, Ind. He died Aug 22 1909 in Decatur County, Ia. and is buried with his parents at the Dale Cemetery. Dan was my 2nd Great Uncle. Question? Who owns the picture of Dandridge? I would like a copy, if possible and would pay for it, of course. regards ott owens ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Fenton" <BluMax_63@msn.com<mailto:BluMax_63@msn.com>> To: <IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com>> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 11:07 PM Subject: [IADECATU] Elm Cemetery - Church > Does anyone know where the records are from the church that was near the Elm Cemetery? Were they destroyed or transferred? > > Craig Fenton > > > ==== IADECATU Mailing List ==== > Stacey Dietiker, Momdit@aol.com<mailto:Momdit@aol.com>: Decatur County List Administrator, > Website Coordinator, Decatur County IA Genweb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu<http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu> > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx> > >

--WebTV-Mail-20120-52 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Hi Barry and his Mom Margaret Dingman Day was the sister that was in the tornado. She is the youngest daughter of the family, She and I were childhood friends. We got back together when we were teenagers. We got married and never saw each other again until I looked for her in the white pages on the internet. She lives on a farm near Polo MO. I went to see her Oct 2003. Her husband Lester died Feb 16th 2005. She called me and sent me his obituary. She went to Leon for Memorial Day. I told her to be sure and go see the Leon swimming pool as it is across the street in Harvey park from where the Dingmans lived in the 1930's & 1940's. I hope to get to see her again someday. I live in Clinton IA. We moved here in 1950. We were in Leon Memorial weekend for the Toney reunion. Thanks Barry for putting the articles on the internet. I really enjoy reading them. We did not take the Journal - Reporter. I do remember some of the names that are in the articles. My Grandma Owens was a Cooper and I do remember August Coopers. Marie Owens Jones --WebTV-Mail-20120-52 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from smtpinvite-3301.bay.webtv.net (209.240.205.169) by storefull-3156.bay.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:17:13 -0700 Received: from lists2.rootsweb.com (lists7.rootsweb.com [66.43.18.39]) by smtpinvite-3301.bay.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix+sws) with ESMTP id 7C040E104; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:17:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists2.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8) id j5MLC3e6026465; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:12:03 -0600 Resent-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:12:03 -0600 X-Original-Sender: BRWest@aol.com Wed Jun 22 15:12:02 2005 From: BRWest@aol.com Message-ID: <1ef.3e6ffff2.2feb2e1d@aol.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:11:57 EDT Old-To: IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5200 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38 Resent-Message-ID: <P5CnRC.A.AdG.jQduCB@lists2.rootsweb.com> To: IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/17384 X-Loop: IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: IADECATU-L-request@rootsweb.com Subject: [IADECATU] tonado X-Brightmail: Message tested, results are inconclusive Barry, this Anna Dingman was Francis mother and that was his sister and daughter that was hurt, don;t know which sister it was, he had two. I don't remember this or how it turned out, I knew the other family from Leon at the time. The Coopers. MOM The daughter of Mrs. Anna Dingman of Leon and her little daughter are in a hospital recovering from injuries suffered in the tornado. Mrs. Dingman departed Tuesday morning to be with her daughter and family. ==== IADECATU Mailing List ==== Stacey Dietiker, Momdit@aol.com: Decatur County List Administrator, Website Coordinator, Decatur County IA Genweb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx --WebTV-Mail-20120-52--

Barry, this Anna Dingman was Francis mother and that was his sister and daughter that was hurt, don;t know which sister it was, he had two. I don't remember this or how it turned out, I knew the other family from Leon at the time. The Coopers. MOM The daughter of Mrs. Anna Dingman of Leon and her little daughter are in a hospital recovering from injuries suffered in the tornado. Mrs. Dingman departed Tuesday morning to be with her daughter and family.

Does anyone know where the records are from the church that was near the Elm Cemetery? Were they destroyed or transferred? Craig Fenton

found in grandmother West's scrapbook Barry West Brother of Leon Lady Died In Kansas City Mitchell Welling, 63, of 5050 Oak, Kansas City, Mo., known as "Mitch" to his friends in Leon, died last Thursday at St. Luke's Hospital where he had been a patient three weeks. Mr. Welling suffered with a heart ailment. He was born in Maryville, Mo., and moved to Kansas City in 1929. The last 28 years he had been employed in the office of the Phillips Petroleum Company refinery in the Fairfax district in Kansas City, Kans. He was a veteran of World War I and was a member of the Sanford Brown, Jr., Post of the American Legion, a member of the Second Presbyterian church, the Ivanhoe Masonic lodge, the Scottish Rite and Ararat Shrine. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Viola welling; a sister, Mrs. Alice Scott, of Leon; and a brother, G. L. Welling ; and his mother, Mrs. Alice Welling, of Maryville. Interment was made at Maryville at 2:00 p. m., Saturday. Dr and Mrs. C. D. Scott of Leon attended the services.

found in grandmother West's scrapbook Barry West Former Leon People in Tornado When the tornado ripped across Ruskin Heights shopping center, 12 miles from downtown Kansas City, Mo., Monday night 38 were killed and over 200 injured. In the group injured was former Leon People. The daughter of Mrs. Anna Dingman of Leon and her little daughter are in a hospital recovering from injuries suffered in the tornado. Mrs. Dingman departed Tuesday morning to be with her daughter and family. The fate of the daughter of a Leon couple, Mrs. R. E. smith, 24, who lived at 10722 Newton Avenue, which was only a block from where the big shopping was flattened in the storm, is not known. Mrs. Smith, nee Miss Barbara Cooper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August T. Cooper of Leon, has not been heard from, or her husband and their two little children, a girl, 2 1/2 years old, and another girl, 1 year old. Mrs. Smith expects another child in September. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper attempted to telephone Kansas City, trying to find out if their daughter and family were injured or killed. The Red Cross was notified but Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, hearing nothing about their daughter and family, departed for Kansas City at noon Tuesday. When the Leon Journal-Reporter went to press yesterday afternoon the Coopers had not returned and no message was received here by relatives. (additional note- There was no basement in the home of the Smiths. I have only the first page and this article goes on about the sister of Chet Cartwright on page 4) *Does anyone have any follow up on the people mentioned above

found in grandmother West's scrapbook Barry West Rites For Frank Colwell In Leon Today Frank Colwell, 84, died May 20 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Karl Nolin. Mr. Colwell spent most of his life farming in Marion and Decatur counties. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2:30 p.m., with interment beside his wife in the Green Bay cemetery

found in grandmother West's scrapbook Barry West Former Leon Lady Dies In Missouri Mrs. A. V. Hart, wife of the Rev. A. V. Hart, of Hopkins, Mo., formerly of Leon, died of cancer may 22, Funeral services will be held at Hopkins on Friday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock. Besides her husband, Mrs. Hart is survived by two daughters, Lucile and Ila Howell, and a son, Garth. The Rev. Hart was pastor of the Leon Christian church for seven years. The Harts had many friends here.

I'm a little slow on getting this to the list. The Durell family is having their family reunion this Sunday at the R&R RV Park on Highway 69 just south of Osceola. Kari

Passing this on as I know some of you are researching this surname. Stacey I just received a message from a Phil Smith who recently bought four old diaries of D. W. Albaugh. They date from 1900-1903. Phil is searching for a descendant to whom he can give the diaries. In the process of hunting for Albaugh families, he found the IAGenWeb Family Group Sheet for John Albaugh and Adelaide Reed (http://www.rootsweb.com/~iafgs/albaughj.txt), and is virtually certain the diaries are those of their son Daniel W. Albaugh (1876-1904). Daniel was born in Linn County and is buried in Monroe Township, Linn County. He married Flora Miller in 1903. Phil wrote to the person who submitted the FGS ("rayswork"), but hasn't received a reply. I'd like to help him and see that the diaries are returned to the family or placed somewhere safe and appropriate. If any of you recognize the names above, please let me know. Thank you! Greta IAGenWeb bluebear@new.rr.com