>Any one remember the frames used to dry sheer curtains? Wooden, adjustable >to some extend with tine sharp pins along the edges to hold the cloth taut >while it dried. Not a pleasant task, lots of pinpricked fingers, but the >curtains weren't out of line when they were dry. This was a real harbinger >of Spring, done during the cleaning whirlwind. I still line dry clothes >when I can.< I have the "curtain stretchers" that my Mother used still wrapped and tied with a piece of binder twine. They are exactly as Susan described - very sharp and an easy way to get a finger pricked. Anyone interested? No way is my wife going to touch them ;-) The twine, of course was from a ball left over when Dad quit using the grain binder for harvesting the oat crop. The bundles were set up butt end down, and shocks built to allow the grain to dry. We put six bundles or eight in a shock, and spread one bundle out over the top as a cover. They would set for a couple of weeks, until ready to be threshed. And that's another story. Don Woodley RAOGK for Bremer, Butler, Floyd and Franklin Counties in Iowa. Researching Woodley, Butler, Ayers, Trindle, Cornford, Relf, Lingenfelter and others as time permits.

Hi all, My Dad and Mom chose to do this, so I have some experience with the situation.  In his case, his body went to UI at the end of July.  They explained to us that in about a year to a year and a half his ashes would be returned to us, by mail!  There was a letter sent to warn my mother  that the package would be arriving.  Not a package you wish to receive without notice.  A year later, when his ashes were safely delivered, the family had a small ceremony at the family cemetery (Mallory, Jefferson township, Louisa County.  A beautiful quiet place on a hill. dating to the 1850's, possibly earlier. My gr gr gr grandfather, Elisha Hook, is in Plot one, 1852.) Because he and my Mother chose to do this, they were buried together in half a regular plot, under a small headstone. You would have no idea of the type of burial.  It was an interesting process, one I will carry on.   My grandmother took me to help tend the graves as her mother had taken her.  Her mother lived across the road and had many memories of burials at night for soldiers and victims of a nearby epidemic.  Burris City was a steamboat landing where the Iowa meets the Mississippi.  Very boggy land, latent with mosquitos. A flood decimated it in 1858, with its obliteration not long after.  She told Wallaces Farmers Magazine in an interview sometime in the '30s(?) that a yellow fever ravaged the town when she was a child.  She would wake up in the ni ght to hear wagons on the road and wake up in the morning to see long strips of freshly turned dirt in the snow.  Also steamboats heading to Rock Island with Confederate soldiers would stop to remove the dead who were then buried at Mallory Cemetery.  There are still large stretches of grass with no headstones, although there is now an historical marker.  It always fascinated me as a child to think of so many unknowns there.  I know my fascination with the past started there. Thanks for all the fascinating posts on laundry day and all the work involved.  I remember most of it well.  Any one remember the frames used to dry sheer curtains?  Wooden, adjustable to some extend with tine sharp pins along the edges to hold the cloth taut while it dried.  Not a pleasant task, lots of pinpricked fingers, but the curtains weren't out of line when they were dry.  This was a real harbinger of Spring, done during the cleaning whirlwind.  I still line dry clothes when I can. Susan It is never to late to be what you might have been. George Eliot

A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York 1931 Bio of Henry E. Sampson Part 2: The public schools of Audubon County were the medium through which Henry E. Sampson, of this review, gained his preliminary education, and until he was twenty years of age he gave his full quota of aid in the sturdy activities of the home farm. He attended the high school at Audubon, driving back and forth nine miles each week, and graduated in 1898 as valedictorian of the class. In carrying his studies along higher academic lines he availed himself of the advantages of Cornell College at Mount Vernon, and from this representative Iowa institution he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1902. It was here that he held membership in the Star Literary Society and took part in oratorical contests. In 1902-03 he took post graduate work in political science and law at the University of Iowa, at Iowa City. In 1903-04 he finished a course in the University of Chicago, receiving in 1904 the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. In 1905 he graduated from the Law School of the University of Chicago, with the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence. Upon examination in 1905 he was admitted to the bar of his native state and established himself at once in the practice of his profession at Des Moines. Here in that same year, 1905, he formed a partnership with Sidney J. Dillon, then of Chicago, and this professional alliance has continued during the long intervening years without change of members, the while it has long controlled a large and representative law business of important order. Mr. Sampson has given special attention to insurance and corporation law, and is general counsel for several insurance companies. Mr. Sampson has been general counsel of the Iowa Manufacturers Association for the past fourteen years, during which time he has been actively interested in the development of the industrial activities of Iowa, believing that only in this way can Iowa become the great agricultural and industrial state to which it is destined, a successful industry making markets for farm produce and raw material and a prosperous agriculture making cash buyers for manufactured products. As such general counsel he has made an exhaustive study of taxation matters as they affect the business interests of the state. In 1916 Mr. Sampson was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United Sates, before which court he successfully argued the constitutionality of the Iowa Workman's Compensation Act. In 1911, Mr. Sampson was appointed assistant attorney general of Iowa by George Cosson, then attorney general, and continued to serve the state in that capacity for six years. During this administration there was a most active campaign of law enforcement, and for several years Mr. Sampson was Mr. Cosson's right hand man in the prosecution of vice. Being in hearty sympathy with the policies and work of Mr. Cosson, he was, as assistant attorney general, ever active in helping bring about a vigorous and at the same time a judicious enforcement of all Iowa laws. The public service which he rendered was highly satisfactory to the public in the enforcement of anti-trust laws enacted to protect the customer, in placing insurance matters upon a better basis, in con testing the validity of certain bridge patents under which Iowa taxpayers were wrongfully required to pay exorbitant royalties, in then prosecution and removal of malefactors in public office, in helping to place county affairs upon a more businesslike basis and in the handling of other important matters entrusted to his care. Twenty-eight derelict public officials were removed, and no removal suit instituted by Mr. Sampson was lost, some defendants resigning to avoid removal by the court. Mr. Sampson presented to the courts a great variety of criminal and civil cases, and assisted Mr. Cosson in the preparation and trial of a number of important cases in the Supreme Court of the State and also of the United States, most of them involving constitutional questions. As attorney for the Industrial Commissioner, as special counsel for the insurance department, and for the State Highway Commission, Mr. Sampson became thoroughly familiar with the inside workings of the administration of state government, especially as it effects the commercial and business interests of the State of Iowa. To be Continued. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa History Project _http://iagenweb.org/history/_ (http://iagenweb.org/history/) Scott County, Iowa _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm) **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219619459x1201345309/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DMarchfooterNO62)

A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York 1931 HENRY E. SAMPSON. This history of Iowa is favored in being permitted to accord recognition to many of the native sons of the state who have been attained eminent success in the legal profession, and among that number is Mr. Henry E. Sampson, who is a leading member of the bar of the capital city of Iowa, where he is the senior member of the law firm of Sampson & Dillon, with offices in the Register-Tribune Building, which firm in years of unchanged personnel now ranks as the oldest law firm in Des Moines. Mr. Sampson was born in Audubon County, Iowa, March 6, 1879, and the place of his nativity was the old "Sampson Farm" in Viola Township, which was purchased by his father in 1875. He is the eldest of the three children of Cyrus Henry Sampson and Martha (Ellis) Sampson, the former of whom was born in Iowa County, Wisconsin, in May, 1850, and the latter of whom was born in the State of New York, July 31, 1860. Her parents, Solomon and Susan Ellis, after spending most of their lives in the old Empire State, came with their youngest daughter, Martha, to Iowa in 1867, where they settled on a farm near Grinnell and where the mother of Mr. Sampson grew to womanhood. Cyrus Henry Sampson is a son of Henry Sampson and the family name of his mother was Baker. Henry Sampson was born and reared in England, and was a young man when he came to the United States and became a pioneer exponent of farm industry in Iowa County, Wisconsin, both he and his wife having passed the remainder of their lives in that county and both having died on the old home farm, near Dodgeville. Cyrus H. Sampson was reared on the old home farm in Iowa County, Wisconsin, and the schools of his native state afforded him his youthful education which was further supplemented by a course in a commercial college at Sandusky, Ohio. During the long period of his active career he never severed his allegiance to the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, and still continued to be concerned with farm enterprise, having extensive land holdings in Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and Canada. Mr. Sampson was a sturdy young man of twenty-three years when he came from Wisconsin to Iowa, with nothing but a team and wagon and an ambition to live a successful and useful life. Two years later he bought his first farm in Audubon County, paying five dollars an acre. having established his home on this tract in 1875, he prospered and added adjoining acres until he had acquired more than a section of the best land in the county, and this fine farm estate continued to be the stage of his productive activities from that time forward until 1898, when he retired from the farm and established residence in the fine little city of Audubon, the county seat, where he and his wife have since maintained their home and where they are venerable and loved pioneer citizens of that favored section of the state. After moving to Audubon he helped organize the Farmers Savings Bank, of which institution he has been a director since its establishment. Of their three children Henry E., the subject of this review, is the eldest. Frank Cyrus, the younger son, in addition to looking after his farm properties in Iowa, Nebraska and Colorado is manager of a brick manufacturing plant at Audubon, besides being local representative of the Federal Farm Loan Bank. He served as representative of Audubon County in the Iowa Legislature during the Thirty-ninth, the Fortieth and the Fortieth extra sessions of the General Assembly, his political allegiance being given to the Republican party, the faith of which is maintained by the other members of the Sampson family. He is mayor of the Town of Audubon, having been elected in 1930. He has two daughters, Mary Louise and Frances Jane. Cora May, the youngest of the children and the only daughter, married Fred Ray Emerson in 1911, after which they moved to the old home farm of her father in Audubon County, and there they reared their three children, Delia, Luella May and Merle. Cyrus H. Sampson has ever been a loyal advocate of the principles and policies of the Republican party. He and his wife are devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, having their present membership at Audubon. In the rural community of Audubon County where he lived so long he was one of the principal founders of the Bethel Church of this denomination, and prior to this he organized and established the first Sunday School in the neighborhood, its original assemblies being held in the schoolhouse of the district. Until he moved his home to Audubon he was the superintendent of the Sunday School and the main support of Bethel Church. To be Continued. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa History Project _http://iagenweb.org/history/_ (http://iagenweb.org/history/) Scott County, Iowa _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm) **************Great Deals on Dell 15" Laptops - Starting at $479 (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220029050x1201385914/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fad.doub leclick.net%2Fclk%3B212974460%3B34272906%3Bh)

A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York 1931 FRANK E. SAMPSON, M. D., who has been long and prominently engaged in the practice of his profession at Creston, judicial center of Union County, and who now gives virtually exclusive attention to surgery, has made a record of noteworthy achievement in his chosen field of endeavor and especially in connection with the establishing of the admirable community hospital in his home city. Doctor Sampson is a native son of the Hawkeye State and a scion of one of its sterling pioneer families. He as born at Middle River, Madison County, Iowa, June 3, 1866, and is a son of Carl and Sarah (Bunce) Sampson, the former of whom was born in the State of New York and the latter in Missouri, but their marriage having been solemnized in Iowa. Carl Sampson was a young man when he came to this state and gained pioneer prestige in Madison County, whence he later removed to Adair County, where he was engaged in the mercantile business at Greenfield a number of years, his death having occurred in 1891 and his widow being now a resident of Red Oak, Montgomery County, where she is a revered pioneer woman of eighty-four years (1929). The late Carl Sampson was a loyal supporter of the cause of the Republican party and he held for some time the office of justice of the peace. He represented the Hawkeye State as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war, has service having been with the First Iowa Cavalry, with which he participated in many engagements, including a number of major battles. In later years he perpetuated his association with his old comrades by maintaining affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic. He was a member of the Congregational Church, as is also his venerable widow. Of the three children Dr. Frank E. is the eldest; May is the wife of L. A. Tuttle, who is engaged in the real estate business in Los Angeles, California; and Emma is the wife of Dr. Benjamin F. Gilmore, a representative physician and surgeon at Red Oak, Montgomery County. The public schools of Greenfield, including the high school, afforded Dr. Frank E. Sampson his youthful education, and thereafter he was a student in the University of Iowa. His ambition to enter the medical profession early found expression, and finally he matured the plans that enabled him to complete a course in celebrated old Rush Medical College in the City of Chicago. In that great institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1891, and after thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was for two years engaged in general practice in the old home town of Greenfield. Since 1893 he has maintained his home and professional headquarters at Creston, where he is now the virtual dean of his profession in Union County. The Doctor has insistently kept in touch with the advances made in medical and surgical science and practice in the intervening years, has availed himself of the best standard and periodical literature of his profession, and has done effective post-graduate work in leading medical colleges and clinics in New York City, Baltimore and Chicago, as well as in similar institutions in Vienna, Austria, and Berne, Switzerland. In his private and hospital practice he now confines himself largely to surgery, in which he has gained specially high reputation and marked success. Doctor Sampson has active membership in the Union County Medical Society, the Southwest Iowa Medical Society, the Iowa State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He has prominently concerned in the organizing and developing of the Greater Community Hospital of Creston, and with the work of that admirable institution he has been actively and influentially identified during a period of a modest inception when a small house was placed in commission for its use, in the year 1894, and in 1896 was erected the first unit of the well equipped and modern hospital that was destroyed by fire in the 1915. The campaign for the new hospital building was forthwith initiated, and in 1919 the main building was completed, while the old cottage hospital has given place to a modern community hospital that is distinctly metropolitan in equipment and service. The property is valued at $125,000 and is entirely free from indebtedness. Doctor Sampson has been a valued member of the hospital staff from the beginning to the present time, and his has been large and important part in the developing of the institution and regulating its service policies. It is worthy of special note that this was the first hospital in Iowa to provide a three years' course of training for nurses, and this department of its service has been specially benignant and successful. Dr. Sampson has subordinated all else to the demands of his profession but has been signally loyal and liberal in his civic attitude. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party, he has membership in the local Rotary Club and the Cresmore Golf Club, and his wife is an active member of the Congregational Church. The year 1892 recorded the marriage of Doctor Sampson to Miss Eldora Hill, and the two children of this union, Carl and Pearl Marie, are twins. Dr. Carl Sampson is well upholding the professional honors of the family name. He profited by the advantages of Grinnell College, in which Iowa institution he advanced his education along academic lines, and thereafter he was graduated in the medical department of the University of Iowa, besides taking a post-graduate course in the medical school of Harvard University. He is now engaged in practice in his native City of Creston, as a specialist in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. His wife whose maiden name was Eleen Reardon, likewise was born in Creston. Pearl Marie, who is now the wife of Dr. Theodore Strong and who is associated with him in the practice of medicine at Long Beach, California, likewise attended Grinnell College and the University of Iowa, in the medical department of which latter she attended for three years, her technical study having thereafter been continued in the medical college in Denver, Colorado, where she received her degree of Doctor of Medicine. She has further fortified herself by her service as interne in a leading hospital in Los Angeles and in the Greater Manhattan Hospital of New York City. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa History Project _http://iagenweb.org/history/_ (http://iagenweb.org/history/) Scott County, Iowa _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm) **************Great Deals on Dell 15" Laptops - Starting at $479 (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220433363x1201394532/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fad.doub leclick.net%2Fclk%3B212935224%3B34245239%3Bb)

Hello, I have found that if you call the county courthouse, you may be able to get the number of the "Trustee" for the cemetery (at times there may be more than one) and speak to them, sometimes they have a record of who is buried in the cemetery. Another idea is the local genealogy center or history center to write to & the may be able to assist you. It depends on the cemetery & also the county where it is located. You may also want to put a request on Iowa Gen Web, Be sure to go to the county they are buried & place a querry to see if someone can be assistance to you. Good luck!! Virginia On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:00:55 -0600 iowa-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > This is the IOWA list in digest form. For additional >information concerning how the list works, how to sub and >unsub and list rules, visit >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Iowa cemetery records (Cheryl Westfall) > 2. Re: Iowa cemetery records (Don) > 3. Re: Iowa cemetery records (Linda Ziemann) > 4. Thanks for responses regarding Dobson Cemetery >(Chebow1@aol.com) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:39:16 -0700 >From: Cheryl Westfall <tedrickw@cox.net> > Subject: Re: [IOWA] Iowa cemetery records > To: Chebow1@aol.com > Cc: IOWA@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <1062412728.20090317163916@cox.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Hi Cheryl, > Most of the time people are buried where it says in >their Obit. But, sometimes they are not. > Don't overlook that possibility. Also, sometimes >people's remains are moved from one cemetery to > another for one reason or another. > > You did not say what year your Gr. grandmother died? > > Good Luck in your search! > > Cheryl (another one!) > >> This past July I took a trip to Iowa (from Oregon) in >>hopes of finding my gr >> grandmother's tombstone in the Dobson Cemetery in >>Garwin, Tama county, Iowa. >> I found the cemetery after much searching but there was >>no stone for my gr >> grandmother. Her name is Nancy Jane Smith (nee >> Rutledge). I found out who >> the caretakers were for the cemetery and called several >>times, left messages >> but never got a reply. So, I wrote them a letter. >> Still no response. Does >> anyone on the Iowa list know who else might have access >>to those cemetery >> records? I know she is buried in that cemetery as that >>is what is stated on her >> death certificate. I want to find her burial spot and >>get a stone placed on >> it. Hope someone can help. Cheryl >> **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See >>yours in just 2 easy >> steps! >> (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220439616x1201372437/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID >> %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62) >> _____________________________________________ > >> For additional information concerning how the list >> works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit >> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ >> _____________________________________________ > >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >>without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:57:45 -0500 >From: "Don" <dwdwrks2@omnitelcom.com> > Subject: Re: [IOWA] Iowa cemetery records > To: "Cheryl Westfall" <tedrickw@cox.net>, ><Chebow1@aol.com> > Cc: IOWA@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: ><631E3C7F1D1E458B894709D34CC8DCC0@userpgmqmpwq22> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; >charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > I looked up the Death Record for an individual the other >day. It stated that > the man had died at U of Iowa Hospital and the body had >been donated for > research. His obit has him buried in Shell Rock, where I >found his grave. > The grave stone has his name on it. What do suppose is >under that stone? > > Don Woodley > > RAOGK for Bremer, Butler, Floyd and Franklin Counties in >Iowa. > Researching Woodley, Butler, Ayers, Trindle, Cornford, >Relf, Lingenfelter > and others as time permits. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:36:11 -0500 >From: "Linda Ziemann" <lin.ziemann@verizon.net> > Subject: Re: [IOWA] Iowa cemetery records > To: "'Don'" <dwdwrks2@omnitelcom.com>, "'Cheryl >Westfall'" > <tedrickw@cox.net>, <Chebow1@aol.com> > Cc: IOWA@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <0KGO00BI2HJIASA2@vms173017.mailsrvcs.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >For what it is worth--I was told once that once the body >had been used for > research, then it was later buried. So very likely the >body is there under > the tombstone. Just a possibility. > > Linda Ziemann > > 718 Santa Cruz Dr. > > Keller, TX 76248 > > IA GenWeb Plymouth, Monona, Sioux County Coordinator > > http://iagenweb.org/ > > Iowa Old Press IAGenWeb Special Project Co-Coordinator > > http://www.iowaoldpress.com/index.html > > "A Look Back at the Lives and Times of Our Ancestors" > > N.D. GenWeb, Mercer Co. Coordinator (My hubby's home >county) > > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ndmercer/ > > > > > > -----Original Message----- >From: iowa-bounces@rootsweb.com >[mailto:iowa-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf > Of Don > Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 7:58 PM > To: Cheryl Westfall; Chebow1@aol.com > Cc: IOWA@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [IOWA] Iowa cemetery records > > I looked up the Death Record for an individual the other >day. It stated that > > the man had died at U of Iowa Hospital and the body had >been donated for > research. His obit has him buried in Shell Rock, where I >found his grave. > The grave stone has his name on it. What do suppose is >under that stone? > > Don Woodley > > RAOGK for Bremer, Butler, Floyd and Franklin Counties in >Iowa. > Researching Woodley, Butler, Ayers, Trindle, Cornford, >Relf, Lingenfelter > and others as time permits. > > _____________________________________________ > >For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:30:19 EDT >From: Chebow1@aol.com > Subject: [IOWA] Thanks for responses regarding Dobson >Cemetery > To: IOWA@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <c6a.4d25dc13.36f1eefb@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Thank you everyone for the responses to my query >regarding my gr > grandmother's grave site. (Nancy Jane Smith 1860-1925). > I am sure that she is buried in the Dobson Cemetery (aka > Carlton-Brethren > Cemetery) in Tama county, Iowa. I am thinking that no >one ever bothered to > buy a stone for her grave and I am having a hard time >finding someone that can > help me figure out where exactly in that cemetery she >is buried. There are > other family members buried there and I'm sure that she >is buried near them > but I would like to know exactly where she is. > The caretaker of the cemetery does not respond to my > calls/letters so I have > contacted the county clerks office (not much help > there). I am going to be > contacting a local funeral home tomorrow and the Tama >county genealogical > society. I am sure that sooner or later someone, >somewhere will have an answer > for me. Thanks again for all of your ideas/comments. > Cheryl > > **************Great Deals on Dell 15" Laptops - Starting >at $479 > (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220433363x1201394532/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fad.doub > leclick.net%2Fclk%3B212935224%3B34245239%3Bb) > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the IOWA list administrator, send an email to > IOWA-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the IOWA mailing list, send an >email to IOWA@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >IOWA-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the >subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of IOWA Digest, Vol 4, Issue 66 > ***********************************

Thanks to all for responding to my question. ;-) (Well, DUH ! Seems as if I should be slapping myself on the forehead about now.) Don

My son-in-law's mother's body was donated for research and as Linda said, the body was eventually returned to the family for a private burial. It was a year or so. This was in Minnesota but I think it would be the same all over the US. Don Elias On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:57:45 -0500 "Don" <dwdwrks2@omnitelcom.com> writes: > I looked up the Death Record for an individual the other day. It > stated that > the man had died at U of Iowa Hospital and the body had been donated > for > research. His obit has him buried in Shell Rock, where I found his > grave. > The grave stone has his name on it. What do suppose is under that > stone? > > Don Woodley > > RAOGK for Bremer, Butler, Floyd and Franklin Counties in Iowa. > Researching Woodley, Butler, Ayers, Trindle, Cornford, Relf, > Lingenfelter > and others as time permits. > > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ____________________________________________________________ Free information on Digital Photography. Click Now! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTDvmSMNhL1Om5sNaukWZuAWsOP9DvFCo1TACTSOOFTqHYCkjK2Cek/

Thank you everyone for the responses to my query regarding my gr grandmother's grave site. (Nancy Jane Smith 1860-1925). I am sure that she is buried in the Dobson Cemetery (aka Carlton-Brethren Cemetery) in Tama county, Iowa. I am thinking that no one ever bothered to buy a stone for her grave and I am having a hard time finding someone that can help me figure out where exactly in that cemetery she is buried. There are other family members buried there and I'm sure that she is buried near them but I would like to know exactly where she is. The caretaker of the cemetery does not respond to my calls/letters so I have contacted the county clerks office (not much help there). I am going to be contacting a local funeral home tomorrow and the Tama county genealogical society. I am sure that sooner or later someone, somewhere will have an answer for me. Thanks again for all of your ideas/comments. Cheryl **************Great Deals on Dell 15" Laptops - Starting at $479 (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220433363x1201394532/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fad.doub leclick.net%2Fclk%3B212935224%3B34245239%3Bb)

For what it is worth--I was told once that once the body had been used for research, then it was later buried. So very likely the body is there under the tombstone. Just a possibility. Linda Ziemann 718 Santa Cruz Dr. Keller, TX 76248 IA GenWeb Plymouth, Monona, Sioux County Coordinator http://iagenweb.org/ Iowa Old Press IAGenWeb Special Project Co-Coordinator http://www.iowaoldpress.com/index.html "A Look Back at the Lives and Times of Our Ancestors" N.D. GenWeb, Mercer Co. Coordinator (My hubby's home county) http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ndmercer/ -----Original Message----- From: iowa-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:iowa-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Don Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 7:58 PM To: Cheryl Westfall; Chebow1@aol.com Cc: IOWA@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IOWA] Iowa cemetery records I looked up the Death Record for an individual the other day. It stated that the man had died at U of Iowa Hospital and the body had been donated for research. His obit has him buried in Shell Rock, where I found his grave. The grave stone has his name on it. What do suppose is under that stone? Don Woodley RAOGK for Bremer, Butler, Floyd and Franklin Counties in Iowa. Researching Woodley, Butler, Ayers, Trindle, Cornford, Relf, Lingenfelter and others as time permits. _____________________________________________ For additional information concerning how the list works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ _____________________________________________ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I looked up the Death Record for an individual the other day. It stated that the man had died at U of Iowa Hospital and the body had been donated for research. His obit has him buried in Shell Rock, where I found his grave. The grave stone has his name on it. What do suppose is under that stone? Don Woodley RAOGK for Bremer, Butler, Floyd and Franklin Counties in Iowa. Researching Woodley, Butler, Ayers, Trindle, Cornford, Relf, Lingenfelter and others as time permits.

Hi Cheryl, Most of the time people are buried where it says in their Obit. But, sometimes they are not. Don't overlook that possibility. Also, sometimes people's remains are moved from one cemetery to another for one reason or another. You did not say what year your Gr. grandmother died? Good Luck in your search! Cheryl (another one!) > This past July I took a trip to Iowa (from Oregon) in hopes of finding my gr > grandmother's tombstone in the Dobson Cemetery in Garwin, Tama county, Iowa. > I found the cemetery after much searching but there was no stone for my gr > grandmother. Her name is Nancy Jane Smith (nee Rutledge). I found out who > the caretakers were for the cemetery and called several times, left messages > but never got a reply. So, I wrote them a letter. Still no response. Does > anyone on the Iowa list know who else might have access to those cemetery > records? I know she is buried in that cemetery as that is what is stated on her > death certificate. I want to find her burial spot and get a stone placed on > it. Hope someone can help. Cheryl > **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy > steps! > (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220439616x1201372437/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID > %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62) > _____________________________________________ > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

You are welcome Caroline. If I was going to wager on which library might have the death information, a library in Walla-Walla Washington or a library in Cresco, I'd put the rent money on the one in Cresco. Dick May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! (Irish proverb) ----- Original Message ----- From: Caroline To: Iowa-L@rootsweb.com ; Dick Tague Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 6:23 PM Subject: Re: [IOWA] Need help finding an obituary for John Dargan Hello, Thanks for the info. I do have the death info from the LDS Film for Iowa deaths. Would the Cresco library have old newspapers that may have the obituary? Thanks, Caroline

Hello, Thanks for the info. I do have the death info from the LDS Film for Iowa deaths. Would the Cresco library have old newspapers that may have the obituary? Thanks, Caroline --- On Mon, 3/16/09, Dick Tague <dicktague@devtex.net> wrote: From: Dick Tague <dicktague@devtex.net> Subject: Re: [IOWA] Need help finding an obituary for John Dargan To: Iowa-L@rootsweb.com Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 3:09 PM The sr. John lives with his son John's family in 1885 (household indexed as DARGON & DARGOM) & 1895 (DARGAN) Jamestown twp, Howard co, Ia. Contact the Cresco Ia. library for a death notice request. Dick May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! (Irish proverb) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Caroline" <window_2thepast@yahoo.com> To: <Iowa-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 2:17 PM Subject: [IOWA] Need help finding an obituary for John Dargan Hello, I'm looking for an obituary for John E. Dargan. The death info. I have is: Dargan, John Male age 100 years, 7 months, 17 days Farmer Death Date: April 4, 1900 ,,,,,, _____________________________________________ For additional information concerning how the list works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ _____________________________________________ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The sr. John lives with his son John's family in 1885 (household indexed as DARGON & DARGOM) & 1895 (DARGAN) Jamestown twp, Howard co, Ia. Contact the Cresco Ia. library for a death notice request. Dick May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! (Irish proverb) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Caroline" <window_2thepast@yahoo.com> To: <Iowa-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 2:17 PM Subject: [IOWA] Need help finding an obituary for John Dargan Hello, I'm looking for an obituary for John E. Dargan. The death info. I have is: Dargan, John Male age 100 years, 7 months, 17 days Farmer Death Date: April 4, 1900 ,,,,,,

Hello, I'm looking for an obituary for John E. Dargan. The death info. I have is: Dargan, John  Male age 100 years, 7 months, 17 days Farmer Death Date: April 4, 1900 Born Ireland, Longford Co. Death Place: Jamestown Twp Iowa, USA Place of Burial: Cresco, Iowa His children were: Bridget (Dargan) CondonWilliam Dargan John E. Dargan Jr.  Thanks,Caroline

Two suggestions: 1. Contact one of the funeral directors in the area. They will know the person you need to talk with. 2. The cemetery may be under the jurisdiction of the Carlton Township Trustees. Contact the Tama County Assessor - they should be able to help. Good luck. Don Woodley RAOGK for Bremer, Butler, Floyd and Franklin Counties in Iowa. Researching Woodley, Butler, Ayers, Trindle, Cornford, Relf, Lingenfelter and others as time permits.

This past July I took a trip to Iowa (from Oregon) in hopes of finding my gr grandmother's tombstone in the Dobson Cemetery in Garwin, Tama county, Iowa. I found the cemetery after much searching but there was no stone for my gr grandmother. Her name is Nancy Jane Smith (nee Rutledge). I found out who the caretakers were for the cemetery and called several times, left messages but never got a reply. So, I wrote them a letter. Still no response. Does anyone on the Iowa list know who else might have access to those cemetery records? I know she is buried in that cemetery as that is what is stated on her death certificate. I want to find her burial spot and get a stone placed on it. Hope someone can help. Cheryl **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220439616x1201372437/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62)

>>The heat-on-the-stove irons were called "flat irons" when I was young. Well -- they were "flat" alright, and after using one for several hours the user was not only "sad" but had a sore arm and back. I speak from experience! My mother called them "sad irons" as had her mother before her. Not sure why. But if one had a good arm and some skill and practice, they did a good job. At our house, on Monday morning, clothes were scrubbed on a washboard with homemade lye soap, whites were boiled while being poked and agitated with a long stick, rinsed and wrung dry by hand. It was a physically hard thing to do. Often my dad would come in and help with wringing the clothes. Then they were dipped in a starch solution, wrung again, and dried on the line. Then they were "sprinkled down" with water, and rolled up to sit and become uniformly damp. When times were better, my mother had store-bought laundry soap. In the late 1930's we got a gasoline powered Maytag washer with a wringer on top of it. What a wonderful thing that was! That all happened on Monday (wash day). By Tuesday the clothes were ready to iron. The irons were heated on the top of the wood (or coal) burning stove. The surface of the stove had to be very clean of course or you'd ruin your clothes. The more irons you had the better because they got cool rather quickly. Having them just the right temperature for whatever you were ironing was an art and a science. The ironing board had to be near the hot stove which was nice in winter but summer ... was not so nice. In the winter, the irons were heated to just the right temperature, wrapped in flannel, and everyone got one or two of them to put in bed at their feet. The good old days? Well, sure in some ways. And it made us old timers what we are today -- survivors and what our kids and grandkids call "tough old birds." But I gotta tell you I do love my modern electric gadgets. And three cheers for permanent press! Jeanne Surber (Another tough old Iowan basking in the California sun)

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Jeanne Surber <surberj@earthlink.net> wrote: > Well -- they were "flat" alright, and after using one for several hours the user was not only "sad" but had a sore arm and back. I speak from experience! My mother called them "sad irons" as had her mother before her. Not sure why. But if one had a good arm and some skill and practice, they did a good job. Sad is from the Old English, meaning "sated," heavy with fullness, and came to mean simply heavy. "Saddened," or heavy with grief, came into use in the 1600s, though the use of sad as heavy continued with its connection to objects well into the Twentieth Century. Michael -- "Let our people travel light and free on their bicycles." - Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire