I sure hope these newspaper guys get one of these obits right one of these times... Ha. Nancee -------Original Message------- From: Sherry Balow Date: 12/28/2009 11:35:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IADECATU] DEATH OF B.Y. WALKER Regarding son "Claford", I have the name as Claiborne A. Walker. "Clabe And Min" were lifelong, Van Wert friends of my great-grandparents, Ira and Mae Price. Min was also a cousin of Grandma's -- the daughter of Benjamin And Calista (Corbet/Price) Easter. Thanks for this info on Bartlet and Wife. I know the "Maxey's" were part of the Van Wert/Popcorn Corners/ History of the area, but know nothing else about them. -Sherry > [Original Message] > From: Nancee Seifert <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 12/28/2009 6:10:25 AM > Subject: [IADECATU] DEATH OF B.Y. WALKER > > Decatur County Journal > Leon, Iowa > Thursday, March 28, 1912 > > BARTLET Y. WALKER was born in North Carolina, October 30, 1819. He moved To > Indiana in 1833 then to Illinois in 1841, where he was married to FRANCES > MAXEY, February 20, 1845, then moved to Decatur County, Iowa. To this Union > were born six children, the youngest, FRANCES, dying in infancy in 1859. Mr > WALKER then lived within one and one-half miles of Van Wert and in Van Wert > until December, 1909, when he moved with his son, CYRUS, to Weiser, Idaho, > where on March 19, 1912, he died, aged 92 years, 4 months and 20 days. > > Truly a devoted father and earnest Christian has departed for a better Land. > Traveling life's journey with all its vicissitudes well nigh onto a > century. He has at last reached his eternal home. He leaves five Children, > MELVIDA, of Indianola, Iowa; CYRUS, of Weiser, Idaho; HANSFORD, of Brock, > Nebraska, and CRUSO, of St. Joseph, Mo. And CLAFORD, of Van Wert, besides A > host of friends are left to mourn his departure. > > Funeral services were held at the M.E. Church, Van Wert, Iowa, conducted By > J.A. Bronson, Pastor. Interment in Green Bay Cemetery. > --------------------------------------------------------- > Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert > December 28, 2009 > [email protected] > > www.iagenweb.org/decatur > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the Quotes in the subject and the body of the message www.iagenweb.org/decatur ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On Dec 28, 2009, at 12:07 PM, Nancee Seifert wrote: > I sure hope these newspaper guys get one of these obits right one of these > times... Ha. Nancee Nancee, Added to sloppy reporting, oldtime newspapers had handset lead type that had to be fished out of wooden cases that had the single-letter type segregated alphabetically. That was usually done by a skilled printer. But the type used in a previous press run was returned to the case by a trainee and several lower-case letters appear very similar (p, d, g and q) when viewed backwards or upside down by an apprentice. And some lazy printers would knowingly substitute one of the wrong-but-similar letters when the correct ones were not yet returned to the case from the last compositing. Nowadays, we have spell check but that's not foolproof, and even the current trend of having the obits appear without editing after being written by the family and/or funeral parlor does not eliminate errors. Just last week I saw Marine Corps misspelled "Corp." -- minus the "s" and with a period -- like a business. And, to take some heat off of the news staff and families, the spelling of names by many census takers leads me to think they must have quit school very early. Of course, none of that excuses my misspelling your name the other day (smile). Rick