Dear Henry Co., IA list subscribers, Here are some stray thoughts I have had lately on Henry Co., IA genealoghical research and some URL's worth checking out. 1. The Mt. Pleasant News is online at http://www.citypapers.com/MtPleasant_IA/. There was a recent article on the Lewelling House (it is also known at the Quaker Shrine). The online version is a short synopsis but I have the full legnth article and will post it when I recieve permission from the newspaper. I can also send you scanned .jpg pictures of I took at the Lewelling House Labor Day last year. There are also some genealogical resources there. There are several scapbooks with pictures and newspaper articles, marriage notices, etc. They also have a large collection of unidentified pictures from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Lewelling family took the same migration as the Saint family from Guilford, NC to Salem, IN to Salem, IA. In fact if you have a U.S. map CD-ROM you can zoom on Washington Twp., Washington Co., IN and find Lewelling Rd. There is also a Trueblood Rd. another Quaker family that migrated the same NC to IN to IA route. 2. Another URL is http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/moa/, Making of America. This site has scanned images old manuscripts. Click on Search and enter Henry County, Iowa and you get Author: Pickard, Samuel, Title: Autobiography of a Pioneer; Publication Date: 1866, City: Chicago, Publisher: Church & Goodman, Pages: 406 page. You will find some Henry Co., Salem, IA and Quaker history. 3. I also have a picture of the large bronze plaque "Roster of Soldiers Enlisted from Henry County, Iowa in the War of 1861-1865" that hangs in the lobby of the Henry Co. courthouse. Let me know and I will send you a .jpg image of it. You won't be able to read the names though. The plaque is aproximately 15 feet long and the lighting was poor for a good picture. It would take a professional photographer to capture the entire plaque. So much for stay thoughts on Henry Co., IA Leslie W. Saint