This link has a 1895 map of Iowa. http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/1895/ia_1895.jpg The file is large and will take a while to bring up if you aren't on a high speed internet connection. You will find Dean, IA in Appanoose County just north of the Missouri border. This is an interesting map and has lots towns that no longer exist. If anyone has other states they'd like to see on an old map, this link http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/ gets you to a list of all the states in the Color Landform Atlas of the United States. Sue ----- Original Message ----- From: <MAGIKALNITES@aol.com> To: <IOWA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 7:03 PM Subject: [IOWA] Dean,Iowa??? > Has anyone ever heard of Dean, Iowa???? > > Angel > > > ==== IOWA Mailing List ==== > The IOWA Lists now have their own website with unsub > instructions, list rules and other useful information. > Visit & Bookmark http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

You can read the whole chapter on the Iowa History Site ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GRANDMOTHER BROWN'S HUNDRED YEARS CHAPTER IV EARLY MARRIED LIFE "Tell me something about the home in Ames where you first went to housekeeping, Grandmother Brown," I begged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "We were married in October, and the next October Willie was here. I had grown up among babies and cared for them when only a child myself, and yet I was hardly prepared for the ordeal that awaited me. Even my baby clothes' didn't seem to be quite right. Ma laughed when I showed them to her. 'Why, my dear, did you measure the cat?' she exclaimed. 'They are so tiny.' "And Willie was a big, bouncing boy who nearly killed me as he tore his way into life. Ma was not with me then, only an aunt of Dan'l's and his cousin's wife. The doctor who attended me was a bad man and drunken. First, he bled me - think of it! Then, after he had taken a pint of my blood, he gave me a cup of ergot to hasten labor. I was young and strong and he was anxious to be off. When my agony could go no further, I lost consciousness. All I remember is seeing my hands drawing up in front of my eyes. 'Oh, if they'll just drop me down, down into that black hole, oh, if they only will,' I agonized, 'it will be all right.' When I came to, I heard a baby cry. 'Your beautiful baby!' they told me.' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Two years later came Gus. He was so good-natured and smiling, the loveliest baby! He's a good boy yet. None of my babies was hard to get along with except Lizzie. She wanted me to hold her in my arms all the time. Gus was so fat that when I tied a ribbon around his wrist you couldn't see anything but the bow. I had to be so careful of him to keep him from being chafed and chapped all the time! Such creases in his legs! Such dimples in his back! We had no talcum powder in those days. My mother used to scorch flour, holding it on a shovel over the fire, and rub it on the babies, and I would tear old handkerchiefs into strips and lay them in the creases of Gussie's fat little body. We had no safety pins! It was necessary to be so careful in the dressing of the little children! "These were my four little Buckeyes, all born in Ohio before I was twenty-eight. Later, in Iowa, I had four little Hawkeyes. The last one, your Herbert, was born two months before my forty-third birthday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "I found that to keep a baby quiet feathers were great playthings; feathers, or a basket of poppies from the garden that would make them drowsy. Willie was afraid at first of a feather from the bed that floated around the room. But afterward a feather that clung to a drop of honey on his finger amused him for hours. Once when Gus had been very quiet for a long time I found, to my dismay, that he had been picking some little white buttons off their card. He had calmly swallowed the whole dozen, - there was the stripped card as evidence, - but we got them again and Gus was none the worse." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It was a considerable undertaking, in those days, to move one's family from Ohio to Iowa. There were no railroads to carry us across country and we had to go by steamboat down the Hocking River to the Ohio, down the Ohio to St. Louis, and then up the Mississippi River to Keokuk, and overland the rest of the way by carriage. We were twenty days on the journey. But compared with what our grandparents had had to overcome in moving from Massachusetts to New York and Vermont, and from those places to Ohio, it was nothing. And then I never thought about its being hard. I was used to things being hard. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

The third installment is up! Enjoy! http://iagenweb.org/iaorphans/resources/brooks03.shtml The article begins with http://iagenweb.org/iaorphans/resources/brooks.shtml Tina Vickery http://iagenweb.org/iaorphans/

Dean was a post office in Appanoose County from 1873 to 1953. Located 6.5 miles southwest of Moulton on Burlington Road (SW Sec. 4, Wells Township, 67N, R16W). Larry Kinyon ----- Original Message ----- From: <MAGIKALNITES@aol.com> To: <IOWA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 8:03 PM Subject: [IOWA] Dean,Iowa??? > Has anyone ever heard of Dean, Iowa???? > > Angel > > > ==== IOWA Mailing List ==== > The IOWA Lists now have their own website with unsub > instructions, list rules and other useful information. > Visit & Bookmark http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

I find the following info on Dean, IA: Feature Name St County Equivalent Name Type USGS 7.5' Map Dean IA Appanoose populated place 403739N 0924250W Moulton Dean (historical) IA Appanoose locale 403739N 0924250W Moulton Dean Post Office (historical) IA Appanoose post office 403739N 0924250W Moulton Dean Lake IA Polk lake 413515N 0933431W Des Moines SE Judy Neu Springwater, NY

Has anyone ever heard of Dean, Iowa???? Angel

For what it's worth Linda, In 1920 3rd ward of Boone, Boone co, in the household of the widow Harriett Sas are her son Harold 25, Il., daughter Mrs Gertrude Smith 35, divorced, Ia. and grandson William Smith 6, Ia. William's father's nativity is indicated as born NY. but I can't find a NY nativity Smith with wife Gertrude in 1910 Boone co. Dick May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! (Irish proverb) Linda wrote: > Hi anyone doing any research in this county to help me out? I am > looking for my father being born Nov. 12 1913 by the name William > Smith Mother Gertrude Sas Smith and Unknown Smith father ? can anyone > help me out? >

Hi anyone doing any research in this county to help me out? I am looking for my father being born Nov. 12 1913 by the name William Smith Mother Gertrude Sas Smith and Unknown Smith father ? can anyone help me out? Thanks Linda

Sometime ago I received the address for the dead Fred photo web site. But, since compacting some files it was deleted by mistake. Thank you, Margaret

Who died? With the exception of Winnie, who probably married , the rest of the 1870 Ogle co, Il family is in Lincoln twp. in 1880 Grundy co, Ia. Dick May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! (Irish proverb) Sharon Potter wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: Isaiah Harrison >To: Sharon Potter >Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 2:00 AM >Subject: Re: james cox > > >At 03:26 PM 9/4/2004 -0600, you wrote: > > > I am looking for a James Cox ,he is listed in the 1870 U S Federal census in Ogle Cty,Il city of Forreston. He was 5 years old then & they moved to Grundy Center, Ia & died some time before1880. His parents were Frank & Judith Cox, they came over from Ireland. I am looking as to where he died or was buried or any info. Thanks Sharon Potter spotter@forbin.net >Your message was not posted to IOWA-L because you sent it to the wrong >address. > > >

----- Original Message ----- From: Isaiah Harrison To: Sharon Potter Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 2:00 AM Subject: Re: james cox At 03:26 PM 9/4/2004 -0600, you wrote: I am looking for a James Cox ,he is listed in the 1870 U S Federal census in Ogle Cty,Il city of Forreston. He was 5 years old then & they moved to Grundy Center, Ia & died some time before1880. His parents were Frank & Judith Cox, they came over from Ireland. I am looking as to where he died or was buried or any info. Thanks Sharon Potter spotter@forbin.net Your message was not posted to IOWA-L because you sent it to the wrong address. _______________________________________________________________ If you are already a subscriber, you may post to the list by sending an e-mail to: IOWA-L@rootsweb.com _______________________________________________________________ To subscribe to the IOWA list, send an email to: IOWA-L-request@rootsweb.com if you want the regular version or IOWA-D-request@rootsweb.com if you want the digest version Leave the subject blank. In the body of the email type the word SUBSCRIBE and nothing else. You will receive a message that you have been subscribed. It contains instructions on how to post to the list. -Richard Harrison -List Owner -IowaJones@cox.net

Is located in Story County, the heart of Iowa as it is in the middle of the State. The most populous city in Story County having 47,193 people in 1990, Ames is located in Washington and Franklin Townships. It had a population of about 2,500 in 1902. The home of Iowa State University, the National Animal Disease Laboratory, and the headquarters of the Iowa Highway Commission. I would check the http://www.rootsweb.com/~iastory/towns.htm website to see if the history indicates for whom the town was named. Judy Neu Springwater, NY

Hello, Looking for info on a town in Iowa called Ames. May be named after A. J. Ames and Minnie Ames his wife. Any info appreciated. Thanks, Jane

Sounds like a good response... Bill -----Original Message----- From: Don [mailto:dwdwrks2@omnitelcom.com] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 6:07 PM To: IOWA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [IOWA] Iowa Cemetery information & Ancestry.com Remember my question about fixing errors in the Iowa Cemetery File? Following is the response from Ancestry's Costumer Solutions Group. Kinda makes me wonder.... Don Woodley Researching Ayers, Butler, Cornford, Relf, Trindle, Woodley and others as time permits. RAOGK Lookups and pix for Bremer, Butler, Floyd & Franklin Counties in Iowa. ******* Dear Don, Thank you for your email. Thank you for bringing this oversight to our attention. We always strive to ensure that the information we provide is accurate. We have forwarded the details you have provided regarding Clayton County on to our programmers for further review. If you notice any other improvements that can be made to enhance your experience, please feel free to contact us again. Please note that in order to resolve many of these issues it requires research, individual reindexing, and other time consuming processes. For this reason the resolution may take longer than that of other website errors. Thank you for your patience. Though we have forwarded this information on to our programmers for review, you may also wish to note this correction for other users who may attempt to access this listing themselves prior to the correction of this information. In many cases, this may be done via our User Comments feature. Currently this feature is only available for the following Census years; additional User Comments links will appear as this feature becomes available for other Census years: . 1860 U.S. Census . 1880 U.S. Census . 1930 U.S. Census . 1871 U.K. Census . 1891 U.K. Census . 1901 U.K. Census To access the User Comments feature for the Census years indicated above, simply click on a name found in the initial listing for search results for the Census. On the next page that loads you will find a list of details about the individual whose name you clicked (such as birthplace and relation to the head of the household). To add a User Comment to the record, simply click on the Add Comments link below the "What to do next?" heading on this page. If User Comments are not available for a certain Census year, please check this year again in the future to post a User Comment when that feature is again offered. In the mean time, you may wish to simply post your comments on our Message Boards. If you post a message with the name of the individual spelled correctly in the subject line, global searches will yield a result with your comments on this error included in the Trees & Community folder of the page showing possible matches. We recommend, if possible, including in your posting the URL (http:// address) of the page where the error is located. This will allow users to quickly access the page in question. The Message Boards can be accessed at the following location: http://www.ancestry.com/share/ Whether you use the Add Comments link or submit a Message Board posting instead, the subject and text of your submission will then be searchable by other users of Ancestry.com. If they search for a name spelled as you include it in your submission, they will find your posting under our Trees & Community section of databases. When viewing your posting, they can then link to the original record to which you made the correction by either clicking on the Subject line of your User Comment or by going to the location you indicate in your Message Board posting. If there is anything else we can assist you with, please let us know. Jason Customer Solutions Ancestry.com "Connecting and Strengthening Families through the World Wide Web" Ancestry.com Technical Support: <http://ancestry.custhelp.com> ==== IOWA Mailing List ==== The IOWA Lists now have their own website with unsub instructions, list rules and other useful information. Visit & Bookmark http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

Remember my question about fixing errors in the Iowa Cemetery File? Following is the response from Ancestry's Costumer Solutions Group. Kinda makes me wonder.... Don Woodley Researching Ayers, Butler, Cornford, Relf, Trindle, Woodley and others as time permits. RAOGK Lookups and pix for Bremer, Butler, Floyd & Franklin Counties in Iowa. ******* Dear Don, Thank you for your email. Thank you for bringing this oversight to our attention. We always strive to ensure that the information we provide is accurate. We have forwarded the details you have provided regarding Clayton County on to our programmers for further review. If you notice any other improvements that can be made to enhance your experience, please feel free to contact us again. Please note that in order to resolve many of these issues it requires research, individual reindexing, and other time consuming processes. For this reason the resolution may take longer than that of other website errors. Thank you for your patience. Though we have forwarded this information on to our programmers for review, you may also wish to note this correction for other users who may attempt to access this listing themselves prior to the correction of this information. In many cases, this may be done via our User Comments feature. Currently this feature is only available for the following Census years; additional User Comments links will appear as this feature becomes available for other Census years: · 1860 U.S. Census · 1880 U.S. Census · 1930 U.S. Census · 1871 U.K. Census · 1891 U.K. Census · 1901 U.K. Census To access the User Comments feature for the Census years indicated above, simply click on a name found in the initial listing for search results for the Census. On the next page that loads you will find a list of details about the individual whose name you clicked (such as birthplace and relation to the head of the household). To add a User Comment to the record, simply click on the Add Comments link below the "What to do next?" heading on this page. If User Comments are not available for a certain Census year, please check this year again in the future to post a User Comment when that feature is again offered. In the mean time, you may wish to simply post your comments on our Message Boards. If you post a message with the name of the individual spelled correctly in the subject line, global searches will yield a result with your comments on this error included in the Trees & Community folder of the page showing possible matches. We recommend, if possible, including in your posting the URL (http:// address) of the page where the error is located. This will allow users to quickly access the page in question. The Message Boards can be accessed at the following location: http://www.ancestry.com/share/ Whether you use the Add Comments link or submit a Message Board posting instead, the subject and text of your submission will then be searchable by other users of Ancestry.com. If they search for a name spelled as you include it in your submission, they will find your posting under our Trees & Community section of databases. When viewing your posting, they can then link to the original record to which you made the correction by either clicking on the Subject line of your User Comment or by going to the location you indicate in your Message Board posting. If there is anything else we can assist you with, please let us know. Jason Customer Solutions Ancestry.com "Connecting and Strengthening Families through the World Wide Web" Ancestry.com Technical Support: <http://ancestry.custhelp.com>

Mary Rosa Fix born 1854 in Iowa married Joseph Schaaf born 1850 in Iowa - have lots of information on the Fix line. They moved to northeastern Nebraska and had these descendants - any cousins doing genealogy? son Michael b 1883 married Lestie Kate [--?--] b 1886 -- their children Loretta b 1909 Norbert b 1911 Charles b 1913 Elmer b 1917 Ethel b 1917 Alfred b 1917 Dorothy b 1919 Ruth b 1920 Raymond b 1923 Michael b 1925 Arthur b 1926 dau Clara b 1886 m Frank Pettinger -- their children Raphael b 1910 Melvin b 1912 Ralph b 1915 Donald b 1919 Ethyl b 1926 son George m Mary [--?--] -- their children Marcellus b 1917 Leona born 1922 Harold b 1925 George b 1925 dau Gertrude b 1893 m George Kenter -- their children Joe had a daughter Ethel b 1926 La Vern b 1912 Ernesta b 1922

The entire chapter can be seen on the Iowa History Site ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ STORIES OF IOWA CHAPTER III A FRENCH AND INDIAN BATTLE IN IOWA After the journey of Marquette and Joliet other Frenchmen came to the Mississippi Valley. One of these was Nicolas Perrot. He built trading posts where he exchanged guns, powder, breads, kettles, trinkets, and cloth, for furs which the Indians brought him. One of these posts was located at Prairie du Chien just across the Mississippi from the present location of McGregor, Iowa. Another was built across the Mississippi not far from the present site of Dubuque. Although Perrot did not live in the Iowa country he carried on much trade with the Indians in this region. In those days many fur-bearing animals were found in the woods and along the streams in Iowa. Deer, bears, raccoons, muskrats, otters, and beavers were plentiful. Buffaloes, too, lived on the prairies. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

Below are the topics in Chapter 4 vol 3 of History of Iowa. The entire chapter is on the Iowa History Site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HISTORY OF IOWA CHAPTER IV Political Conventions of 1871 - The Republicans Successful - The Fourteenth General Assembly - The Senatorial Contest - William B. Allison Nominated Over Senator Harlan - Cyrus C. Carpenter Inaugurated Governor - Revision of the Laws - Political Conventions of 1872 - Republican Candidates Elected - The Second Grasshopper Scourge - Liberal aid to the Sufferers - The Presidential Campaign of 1872 - Reelection of General Grant - Defalcation of the State Treasurer - A Legislative Investigation - The Patrons of Husbandry - Their Influence in Legislation - Political Conventions of 1873 - An Anti-Monopoly Party Organized - The Republicans Successful in the Election - Material Progress........ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

Can someone tell me what I need to do to get the information in this data base about my ggg-grandfather corrected? About half of the information is wrong, and I would like to do something about getting it right.. Don Woodley Researching Ayers, Butler, Cornford, Relf, Trindle, Woodley and others as time permits. RAOGK Lookups and pix for Bremer, Butler, Floyd & Franklin Counties in Iowa.

The entire chapter will be online on the Iowa History Site ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ STORIES OF IOWA For BOYS AND GIRLS CHAPTER II THE DISCOVERY OF IOWA More than two hundred and fifty years have passed since white men first saw the land that is now Iowa. On June 17, 1673, two bold Frenchmen with five companions in two canoes floated out on the broad Mississippi from the mouth of the Wisconsin River. Across the Father of Waters they saw the high, wooded hills and deep valleys of the region near the present town of McGregor, Iowa. One of these Frenchmen was Father Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit priest; the other was Louis Joliet, a fur trader and woodsman. The five companions were rugged oarsmen or voyageurs who paddled the canoes. One month had passed since these men had set out from the distant mission at St. Lgnace on the Straits of Mackinac. For years rumors had come to New France about a great river to the west. Some thought it might flow into the Pacific Ocean, or the South Sea. Others believed that it emptied into the Gulf of Mexico. Count Frontenac, the governor of New France, sent Joliet to discover this river and to map its course. Marquette received permission to go with him to teach religion to the Indians. We learn about this trip from a journal kept by Marquette. All the notes written by Joliet on the journey were lost when his canoe upset on the way back to Quebec. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/