Website additions today include: Five new biographies from "The History of Decatur County Iowa And Its People" c. 1915 - V. R. McGinnis, Elba Shewmaker, James R. Smith, Melbern Thompson, and J. O. Cherry. Pages 29-36 of Eden Twp. 1885 State Census of Decatur County, Iowa which completes Eden Twp. I want to note here that there were several odd things in these last several pages of Eden Twp. Page 31 was marked in the columns for Father a Native and Mother a Native with everyone's father Foreign and everyone's mother Native. The census taker used ditto marks for the most part in these columns and I think he just simply forgot to change the father's designation back to Native. Page 35 is the census of the Poor House. There were also some very different names and name spellings here. Note too that the spellings for Indiana and Tennessee were not my own but the census taker's spellings. If something looks odd to you please email me and I will try to answer your questions. I have copies of the actual pages here at home. Surnames included are: Finch Evans Rumley Cruikshank Albaugh Gammon Chastain Walton Wilkinson Mullin Trembly Hubbard McDaniel Pitman Frazier Bruer Vandflugt Foster Bowman Moore Wakefield Campbell Hall Wisdom Barrett Cowles Hatfield McCoy Hinklin Hullinger McNelly Wells And the Surnames from the Poor House Burrell Craig Houchan Vandle Willis Scott McDonald Coslie Hazzard Kling Atwood Fairall Evans Boydston Bryant Irish Sly Stacey Dietiker momdit@aol.com Decatur Co IA List Administrator Decatur Co IA Website Coordinator

Thanks so much, Stacey, for all you do for us. I found my Grands and Great Grands (Chastain and Albaugh and allied families) which I didn't have before. I hope you know know VERY MUCH we all appreciate your transcribing and your diligence in making the Decatur County, Iowa the BEST site on the web. I'll never forget how sad I was years ago when I didn't find Decatur County represented in the Iowa webpages. It was worth waiting for!!!!! Also, thanks to your family for sharing you with us. I know you have another "life" and it takes a lot of time to do this. You take care - you ARE appreciated!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH ! Jan Lund Jan4Gen@verizon.net