Merdith, What is your line of Beavers? My husband had Beavers in IA & they ended up in KS. Joseph Allen Beavers, b. 1813, PA. d. 1865 Decatur Co. IA. He married Christina Spargur, b. 1813 OH. d. 1896 Decatur Co. IA. Thanks, Shirley ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancee Seifert" <iggy29@grm.net> To: <IADECATU@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 5:28 PM Subject: [IADECATU] WOODLAND TOWNSHIP CEMETERIES. > Thanks so much, Meredith, for sharing this information... I can't imagine > trimming around all the headstones by hand -- GO MOM!! That must have > taken > a lot of time. I give heartfelt praise to all of you local folks who took > care of the cemeteries - for such a small amount of pay. Hindsight is > always perfect -- but I should have had you give me the directions. Did > you > know Miles Leeper back then? He and his wife mow and trim the cemeteries > now. He said he'd lived where he does, all his life. (He has a zero turn > John Deere mower and his wife uses the gas string trimmer).. I got a good > laugh out of your mower catching on fire -- even though it probably wasn't > funny at the time... My Best Always, Nancee > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Nancee: > > Glad you enjoyed the cemeteries of Woodland Township. Back in the early > 50's my mom and I were the caretakers of the 5 cemeteries in Woodland > Township for a few years. We had to put in a bid each spring with the > trustees to win the job. Ususally about $325 dollars for the summer. The > township furnished the mower and we furnished the labor. I mowed and Mom > trimed around the stones. Trimming was quite a job before string trimmers > so I had the good deal. > > I remember one time while mowing the Beavers cemetery the mower caught on > fire. Fire was shooting out of the vent hole in the gas cap about 4 feet. > I hauled out of there and watched until it was over. I was glad to see > that one go. It had a Clinton engine and they sucked. Got a new one with a > Briggs and Stratton. > > As you mentioned, the Shields and Lentz cemeteries were on dead-end roads. > The Shields was just west of the Bert Adair place. A lane on the west > side of the Shields cemetery went south to an old bachelors place, Charlie > Johnson. He never had a car. Always went to Woodland in his wagon behing a > team. > > The road to the Lentz cemetery was a through road at one time. When I was > little it ended about a quartere of a mile or so south of the cemetery. > The last family I remember living at the end of the road was the Mericle > family. The Pattons (Deles and Velma and their kids Nile, Gary, Doris, Fay > and Dorothy) lived on the corner where the road went south. > > Meredith Johnston > Spencer > > > > > > > www.iagenweb.org/decatur > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IADECATU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2899 - Release Date: 05/27/10 01:25:00 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2899 - Release Date: 05/27/10 01:25:00

> Merdith, > > What is your line of Beavers? My husband had Beavers in IA & they ended > up > in KS. Joseph Allen Beavers, b. 1813, PA. d. 1865 Decatur Co. IA. He > married Christina Spargur, b. 1813 OH. d. 1896 Decatur Co. IA. > > Thanks, Shirley Shirley: I have to confess; I am not much or a genealogist. I have some info on the paternal Johnstons and the maternal McKees put not much else. As in most old rural communities, if you dig deep enough everyone is your cousin, mj