Shirley, Of course Corning is in the 1900 census. But your question below is quite confusing. J. E. Cochrane, when was he born? Where was he born? You say you have an obit dated Jan. 27, but for what year? Cheryl > Can someone tell me why corning,iowa is not in the 1900 census?i am trying > to find a Cochrane in there with just initials of J.E.Cochrane.when my > G'G'Grandfather died he was listed in a jan 27th obit from the newspaper > that was in a family Bible.His parents were Thomas Cochrane and Sarah > Celina Bancroft.H came to America in 1844,married sarah in july 4th of 1853 > in Avon,New York.cannot find whose his parents are of Thomas C ochrane.was > hoping if to find relatives of his children,may find who his parents are.is > there a mailing list for adams county in iowa? Do know that most of the > family moved to California.thank you,do hope someone can help me,Shirley > gunter(Cochrane)

Hello Folks , Please tell me this : Where is this place " Hidden "" ?? , I see nothing on Iowas page OR am I not looking in right place ??? Is there a URL fot it ? , Phil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mona Knight" <mknight5@ctc.net> To: <IOWA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 4:06 AM Subject: [IOWA] Who's Who in Iowa >I have a 1940 Who's Who in Iowa book with thousands of family and >individual names if anyone wants a look up. It has a nice index and is >sorted by County. > > Typically gives name, where born, occupation, who they married, parents' > names, children, description of community activities. > > I have contributed the county indexes to many of the Rootsweb Iowa pages; > did that a couple of years ago when the county coordinators asked me. Not > all counties asked for it. > > Regards, > > Mona > _____________________________________________ > > 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

Good morning all, This has been such an interesting time for the Iowa list. Thank you for all the wonderful posts. If ever any of you would like to share the bio's I post to this list...be my guest. Just please remember to give the source credit when sharing. And that would be the name of the book, author and the copyright date. All that I post will eventually end up on the Iowa History Site or you can go back into the archives of this list too to find them. 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/100126575x1219957551x1201325337/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62)

Can someone tell me where Bethesda Cemetery is located in Jefferson County? Also, is there a list of burial sites posted on line? I'm searching for the burial site of Levi Hampton who died in Fairfield in 1882. Also graves of children of Harmon Stidger who died in this same time period. Thanks. juanita > Good morning all, > > This has been such an interesting time for the Iowa list. Thank you > for all the wonderful posts. > > If ever any of you would like to share the bio's I post to this > list...be my guest. Just please remember to give the source credit > when sharing. And that would be the name of the book, author and the > copyright date. > > All that I post will eventually end up on the Iowa History Site or you > can go back into the archives of this list too to find them. > > > > 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/100126575x1219957551x1201325337/aol?red > ir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D6680 > 72%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

Can someone tell me why corning,iowa is not in the 1900 census?i am trying to find a Cochrane in there with just initials of J.E.Cochrane.when my G'G'Grandfather died he was listed in a jan 27th obit from the newspaper that was in a family Bible.His parents were Thomas Cochrane and Sarah Celina Bancroft.H came to America in 1844,married sarah in july 4th of 1853 in Avon,New York.cannot find whose his parents are of Thomas C ochrane.was hoping if to find relatives of his children,may find who his parents are.is there a mailing list for adams county in iowa? Do know that most of the family moved to California.thank you,do hope someone can help me,Shirley gunter(Cochrane)

I worked in a grade school for 20 yrs. In the class rooms and office. I had a problem with pregnant teachers but must agree that these children saw that at home. Best job I ever had.

I worked in a grade school for 20 yrs. In the class rooms and office. I had a problem with pregnant teachers but must agree that these children saw that at home. Best job I ever had.

I've been reading some of these posts to my mother, age 90, who was a teacher in a country school in 1937. She attended Iowa State Teachers College (now UNI) for two years and then taught at a country school in Boyd, Iowa for one year. Then she married my father over the summer and quit teaching. She said she heard that if you were married you couldn't teach, but didn't know if it was true in her case. She had planned on quitting once she got married anyway. My father was a farmer and life on the farm was hard. They had big gardens and did all their canning. She sewed all their clothes. They didn't have the conveniences that we have now to make housework easier. And when we wasn't working in the house, she was taking care of the chickens, mowing grass and helping my father whenever he needed an extra pair of hands. She cooked three meals a day and they were substantial meals. And then when the children started coming along, there wasn't daycare available and diapers had to be washed and hung on the clothes line to dry. Mondays were laundry day, Tuesdays were devoted to ironing. And everything was ironed, sheets and my dad's underwear included. There simply wasn't time to have a career as well. Some of her friends that were teachers and then quit when they got married went back to teaching once their children were in school. Deb

I went to Iowa's country schools until 7th grade when they were all closed in our area. In Greene county, Iowa during WW2 they changed the rule about not having married teachers as couldn't get unmarried women to fill the positions. My mother, who had been a country school teacher before her marriage, taught at our school and as did the mother of one of my friends. **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219957551x1201325337/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62)

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 DILLON L. ROSS is an accomplished lawyer, member of the bar of Council Bluffs for many years, and his own work as a lawyer supplements the professional record of his father, also an early member of the Council Bluffs bar. Mr. Ross was born at Council Bluffs, December 1, 1869. The family were among the earliest settlers on the eastern side of the Missouri River, coming here before the building of the first railroads. His grandfather was Amos Ross, a native of New Jersey, who moved to Ohio and spent his life as a farmer. Lewis W. Ross was born in Ohio, finished his education in Miami University and began the practice of law. He came out to Iowa and practiced for two years at Lewis and in 1861 settled at Council Bluffs and for over forty years was an honored m;ember of the profession in the southwestern corner of the state. He was a great scholar and from 1881 to 1887 was a law teacher at the University of Iowa. He also served in the State Senate, was a leader in the Republican party and a member of the Congregational Church. He died in 1902. His wife Zoe M. Brown, who died in 1914, was also born in Ohio, daughter of Simeon Brown, a native of the same state and a minister of the Presbyterian and later of the Congregational Church. Lewis W. Ross and wife had a family of five children, four now living: Mrs. Hester R. Moon, a widow at Council Bluffs; Miss Edith W., of Council Bluffs; Miss Anna Z., who taught in the city schools for a number of years; and Dillon L. Dillon L. Ross was educated at Council Bluffs, spent two and a half years in the University of Iowa and studied law with his father. He was admitted to the bar in 1891, and has been successfully engaged in the varied routine of the work of his profession for nearly forty years. During the first eleven years he was with his father, was alone in practice from 1902 to 1913, and then became associated with another eminent member of the Iowa bar, Emmet Tinley, in a firm that is reputed to have some of the most valuable law practice in the state, representing a number of railroads and other corporations. Mr. Ross for many years has specialized as an authory on real estate law. He is a member of the Pottawattamie County and Iowa State Bar Associations. He is a past exalted ruler of Lodge No 531, B. P. O. Elks, is a member of the Country Club and enjoys the game of golf. His wife is a Congregationalist. He married in 1894 Reta M. Miller, who was born in Missouri, grew up in Illinois, her father, Robert D. Miller, being a minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Ross have four children: Harold M., in the real estate and farm loan business at Council Bluffs; Lewis W., connected with a bank at Oakland, Iowa; Dillon L., in the real estate business at Park Ridge, Illinois; and Miss Doris, at home. The sons Harold and Lewis were overseas during the World war, Harold being in the Hospital Corps and reaching France in December, 1917, while Lewis went overseas in September, 1917. 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/100126575x1219957551x1201325337/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62)

Hi Martha, Well if you ever do get back to Kanawha please let me know - I'll buy you lunch at "The Talk Of The Town." And yes, the "Holiday Open House" is big doins' here. The town is very quaint during the Christmas season, especially after a fresh snow. The homes and businesses are decorated and lights and wreaths adorn the lamp posts on Main St. Many times during a soft snow I've thought it was like an old time postcard. Oh!.. and there is a wonderful group of people who do Christmas Caroling! They don't ring your bell, they just appear and their voices are their announcement. We open our door and stand on the porch while they serenade us with lovely songs of peace, joy, and love. Then they hand me a plate of homemade Christmas cookies, and a small gift is given to my grandson - and off they go again into the night. That is my very most favoritist part of Christmas in Kanawha! Can you tell me who your cousins are? I'm learning more folks' names the longer I'm here and I think everyone knows who I am, but not always by name, usually I'm just referred to as "Andrew's Grandma" - and it seems EVERYONE knows Andrew! It's gotten so that sometimes I just say, "Oh I live at Andrew's house. ;-) Let me know if you ever need a lookup at the county courthouse or a cemetery photo, etc. Which genealogical society did you work with - the Hancock County GS, or the North Central Iowa Genealogy Society out of Mason City? Blessings, Kate ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martha Johnson" <mjohnson049@columbus.rr.com> Cc: <IOWA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 12:42 PM Subject: Re: [IOWA] Kanawha > Forgot to say ( shame on me), that the cousins we met took us to > THEIR home, which had been my grandfather's great uncle's home in the > 1800's. So we saw px of the original farm house, and how it has > changed through the years. > > I want to go back!!!! > > Martha > > > On Feb 28, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Martha Johnson wrote: > >> I had the pleasure of visiting in Kanawha this fall. I have some >> relatives buried there, and also via a cousin I met on the internet >> found other cousins still living there. They met us and took us >> to the Hancock Cemetery and were so very gracious. One even took >> us to her home and shared old photographs of my grandfather's >> uncles , aunts and cousins. >> >> We didn't spend as much time there that we learned what a quaint >> town it is, but the people we met were wonderful. I want to go >> back. >> >> At Christmas my relative told me of how the down town has open >> houses, and the businesses serve refreshments, etc. That would only >> happen in a good old small town. >> >> I also had great help from the local genealogy society before my trip >> in locating some information that made me eager to visit. >> >> Martha >> >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> 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 > > _____________________________________________ > > 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.4/1976 - Release Date: 02/27/09 13:27:00

Everyone pat themselves on the back. What a story. I know this deviates from genealogy but it deserves the recognition. This has been one of the most interesting discussions I've read in a long time. Could it be that so many of ushave responded because we still remember the one room school house or we have listened to our parents that had gone to the school. I am glad that this topic came up as it prompted me to write about Booth Twp. #8. I realized that I had not written about the school for my own life history record for preservation of my decendents. Therefore I copied it to myself so I could also have a copy. As someone else has already said "Lets keep up the conversation" .. It is interesting and some people may be finding lost relatives as well as faciltating the increased use of look-ups etc. for the ancestors. Bob Ferguson in Iowa **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219957551x1201325337/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62)

Did the contracts say men couldn't marry as well? Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "donkelly" <ocollaugh@comcast.net> To: "Linda Ziemann" <lin.ziemann@verizon.net> Cc: <IOWA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 7:01 PM Subject: Re: [IOWA] School teachers can not marry each other. > So the teaching contracts were intended that School Marms would remein > School Marms? > > Yes, I agree that losing a teaching job to get married was a huge loss of > education resources. > > I am glad their teaching contracts moved into the 20th century. > > donkelly > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Linda Ziemann <lin.ziemann@verizon.net> > To: Scottsfamilytree@aol.com, IOWA@rootsweb.com > Sent: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:01:53 +0000 (UTC) > Subject: Re: [IOWA] School teachers can not marry each other. > > Great conversations we have going on the IOWA list.... > > I was told that early teachers could NOT marry anyone and keep their > teaching job in IA. This policy did change sometime after 1930, > thankfully. > Many folks I know had mothers who taught....and once these ladies married > they had to quit teaching. What a waste for that time, right? I have > actually seen early contracts that were worded that the "contract would > terminate" if the teacher married. > > My best to you all........ > > 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 Scottsfamilytree@aol.com > Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 8:43 AM > To: IOWA@rootsweb.com > Subject: [IOWA] School teachers can not marry each other. > > In 1910, my mothers parents were school teachers in Henry county. But > there > > was a law that school teachers could not marry in Iowa. So they got > married > > in Monmouth, Illinois. Scott > **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 > easy > steps! > (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219957551x1201325337/aol?redir=htt > p:%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 > > _____________________________________________ > > 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 > > _____________________________________________ > > 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 >

My mother became a grade school teacher after she graduated from high school and passed a battery of tests. She taught for six years and was terminated when she got married. Thirty years later, as a nurse with a science degree, she got back into teaching high school subjects. She really loved it. donkelly ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeanne Surber <surberj@earthlink.net> To: Iowa <IOWA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:22:56 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [IOWA] Why couldn't teachers marry? Does anyone know the reasoning behind preventing teachers from marrying? Was it just women? What about male teachers? Could they be married? This explains why my mother left her much loved teaching job when she married my dad in 1916. She taught briefly at a school called (I think) "Tom Benton School" which was probably in or near Mahaska County. It was a small (typical for the time) country school that she remembered and talked about all her life. She felt that teaching was her true calling in life, but was never able to return to it. I remember asking her why she quit teaching and she said, "I got married!" as if that explained it completely. I just assumed she chose to stay home and be a housewife. Jeanne _____________________________________________ 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

Bob, Thank you for sharing your experiences as a boy in an Iowa country school - and all the others who have written, too. Reading these messages, and writing some, has made for a lively and enjoyable week here on the Iowa List - let's keep it going. Post your questions, query's, or suggestions for topics of discussion. C'mon folks we have something special here! Blessings, Kate ----- Original Message ----- From: Fergsbks@aol.com To: kate@comm1net.net Cc: Iowa@Rootsweb.com ; Fergsbks@aol.com ; dkferg@yahoo.com Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [IOWA] Why couldn't teachers marry? Sorry this is so long. I started out to comment on teachers in one room schools but things kept coming to mind. Please excuse the rambling on. Bob in Iowa My Country School, Booth Township #8 I saw the same public tv program and recorded it. It brought back a lot of memories as I attended a country school, Booth township #8, until the start of the 8th grade and then our area was consolidated into the Lauren's, Iowa school. I thought it was strange we were going to the town school in Laurens which is in Pocahontas County while I lived in Palo Alta County. Distances made the difference as I was only 5 miles from the Laurens school while I was 9 miles from the next nearest school. In regard to women teachers not being able to be married, it was due to the lack of available jobs. If a woman teacher married it was assumed that her husband had a job and could support her while if a man was the teacher, seldom in later years, he was the person supporting his wife if he had one. My mother was a teacher until she married my father in the middle twenties. She attended college in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She had worked for a neighbor helping with the housework and caring for the children. In the late 1880s there was a school built 2 miles north of Laurens and named after my ggrandfather called the Ferguson School. He had moved his family from Guthrie County, Iowa to 4 miles north of Laurens to farms he and his oldest son had bought. The farms are still in the family and farmed by his great and ggreat grandson, my first cousin and his son. Now back to the Ferguson school. My ancestors walked two miles to school until there was a new school built in the section next to the farms where they then went to school. The first teacher of the school was a man by the name of Gilchrist who later became a lawyer and then went on to serve in the countries legislature. Our country school was relatively modern compared to a lot of the older country schools. The original country school was bought by my grandfather or my father and moved across the road or maybe was built there and they just bought the school house since usually the land was donated. Any way at on time we lived in the former schoolhouse after we moved back home from Nebraska as my dad owned the farm. The new schoolhouse was square with a porch on the entry and just inside were restroom s called cloak rooms to hang your coats, overshoes and any thing else. There also was a chemical toilet in each boy's and girl's cloak room so we did not have to go to an outhouse. We still had one at home., In fact I never had an indoor bath and restroom facility until I was drafted into the Army in 1953We were farmers and poor but we ate well and my folks were able to provide most of the necessities.. I started working when I was 12 years old shockinf oats for threshing. I was expected to work about as much as an adult. My own perception. Our school had an addition on the South side of the boy's cloak room where the teacher kept supplies and also a bucket of water with a dipper for drinking water when you were thirsty. We also had a basement with a furnace where we also played when it was bitterly cold and windy although we often went outside to play anyway. Our teacher had to bank the coal furnace every night before going home so there would be red coals left in the morning to start the coal burning again. It was banked by covering it with ashes to keep it from burning all of the and the dying. Our furnace was an updraft one with a large grate in the middle where we stand when coming in from the cold outdoors. Our desks faced south with windows all along the East side and the cloak rooms and store room on the West side to help protect from the cold west wind. We went to the front of the school for recitation which also was where the blackboards were located and the pull down mans. We also hand an upright record player which we called a Victrola or phonograph. It played the old wax 78 rpm records and used a steel needle. It was also a wind-up player and would often have to be wound up. We did have a hand pump in front of the steps and the older boys had to take turns getting the water for the day whenever needed. We also all had to take turns dusting the erasers by pounding them together outside of the school. We had 10 minute recesses every hour and an hour, I believe, for lunch. we also had a flag which the teacher put and took down every day. We also had one other distinctive feature. In the storeroom was a table and a hotplate for cooking. Most days our teacher made hot soup for us to eat. This was really a radical innovation way ahead of it's time. This occurred the last few years we attended the school. shortly after the consolidation of the area the school was sold to a farmer about a mile and one-half north of the school. He then moved it to his farm and attached it to his small house where it still exists today. Bob Ferguson in Iowa Researching Ferguson-Moore-Grice-Gates-Benna-Johnson-Wenell ************** A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. 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I remember 5th and 6th grades going over to Wright School and getting some kind of pill to get a polio vaccine. In the Early 60's in Cedar Rapids. But I remember going to Glencoe, Illinois and seeing a friend of my mothers, whose sister was in an Iron Lung. In the Mid 50's. I remember the flu shouts in 1972 roughly, my Aunt got Gilliams Barre from the flu shot,excuse poor spelling. Scott **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219957551x1201325337/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62)

I was in the 2nd grade in 1953 (OMG: now you can do the math.) We were the group used as the nation's guinea pigs for the new Polio Vaccine. I remember it was a VERY big deal for everyone, especially the parents. Before the vaccine we children were so carefully watched, especially in the summer, and things like gatherings with "strange" children (swimming pools, etc..) were off limits. Nearly everyone knew someone who had a family member with polio, and all parents lived in constant fear. How fortunate we are for the many vaccines that now protect our children and grandchildren. Blessings, Kate ----- Original Message ----- From: <Scottsfamilytree@aol.com> To: <IOWA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 6:17 PM Subject: [IOWA] Fwd: Polio shots >I remember 5th and 6th grades going over to Wright School and getting some > kind of pill to get a polio vaccine. In the Early 60's in Cedar Rapids. > But I remember going to Glencoe, Illinois and seeing a friend of my > mothers, whose sister was in an Iron Lung. In the Mid 50's. > I remember the flu shouts in 1972 roughly, my Aunt got Gilliams Barre from > the flu shot,excuse poor spelling. Scott > **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 > easy > steps! > (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219957551x1201325337/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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.8/1987 - Release Date: 03/06/09 07:20:00

So the teaching contracts were intended that School Marms would remein School Marms? Yes, I agree that losing a teaching job to get married was a huge loss of education resources. I am glad their teaching contracts moved into the 20th century. donkelly ----- Original Message ----- From: Linda Ziemann <lin.ziemann@verizon.net> To: Scottsfamilytree@aol.com, IOWA@rootsweb.com Sent: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:01:53 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [IOWA] School teachers can not marry each other. Great conversations we have going on the IOWA list.... I was told that early teachers could NOT marry anyone and keep their teaching job in IA. This policy did change sometime after 1930, thankfully. Many folks I know had mothers who taught....and once these ladies married they had to quit teaching. What a waste for that time, right? I have actually seen early contracts that were worded that the "contract would terminate" if the teacher married. My best to you all........ 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 Scottsfamilytree@aol.com Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 8:43 AM To: IOWA@rootsweb.com Subject: [IOWA] School teachers can not marry each other. In 1910, my mothers parents were school teachers in Henry county. But there was a law that school teachers could not marry in Iowa. So they got married in Monmouth, Illinois. Scott **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219957551x1201325337/aol?redir=htt p:%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 _____________________________________________ 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

Sorry this is so long. I started out to comment on teachers in one room schools but things kept coming to mind. Please excuse the rambling on. Bob in Iowa My Country School, Booth Township #8 I saw the same public tv program and recorded it. It brought back a lot of memories as I attended a country school, Booth township #8, until the start of the 8th grade and then our area was consolidated into the Lauren's, Iowa school. I thought it was strange we were going to the town school in Laurens which is in Pocahontas County while I lived in Palo Alta County. Distances made the difference as I was only 5 miles from the Laurens school while I was 9 miles from the next nearest school. In regard to women teachers not being able to be married, it was due to the lack of available jobs. If a woman teacher married it was assumed that her husband had a job and could support her while if a man was the teacher, seldom in later years, he was the person supporting his wife if he had one. My mother was a teacher until she married my father in the middle twenties. She attended college in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She had worked for a neighbor helping with the housework and caring for the children. In the late 1880s there was a school built 2 miles north of Laurens and named after my ggrandfather called the Ferguson School. He had moved his family from Guthrie County, Iowa to 4 miles north of Laurens to farms he and his oldest son had bought. The farms are still in the family and farmed by his great and ggreat grandson, my first cousin and his son. Now back to the Ferguson school. My ancestors walked two miles to school until there was a new school built in the section next to the farms where they then went to school. The first teacher of the school was a man by the name of Gilchrist who later became a lawyer and then went on to serve in the countries legislature. Our country school was relatively modern compared to a lot of the older country schools. The original country school was bought by my grandfather or my father and moved across the road or maybe was built there and they just bought the school house since usually the land was donated. Any way at on time we lived in the former schoolhouse after we moved back home from Nebraska as my dad owned the farm. The new schoolhouse was square with a porch on the entry and just inside were restroom s called cloak rooms to hang your coats, overshoes and any thing else. There also was a chemical toilet in each boy's and girl's cloak room so we did not have to go to an outhouse. We still had one at home., In fact I never had an indoor bath and restroom facility until I was drafted into the Army in 1953We were farmers and poor but we ate well and my folks were able to provide most of the necessities.. I started working when I was 12 years old shockinf oats for threshing. I was expected to work about as much as an adult. My own perception. Our school had an addition on the South side of the boy's cloak room where the teacher kept supplies and also a bucket of water with a dipper for drinking water when you were thirsty. We also had a basement with a furnace where we also played when it was bitterly cold and windy although we often went outside to play anyway. Our teacher had to bank the coal furnace every night before going home so there would be red coals left in the morning to start the coal burning again. It was banked by covering it with ashes to keep it from burning all of the and the dying. Our furnace was an updraft one with a large grate in the middle where we stand when coming in from the cold outdoors. Our desks faced south with windows all along the East side and the cloak rooms and store room on the West side to help protect from the cold west wind. We went to the front of the school for recitation which also was where the blackboards were located and the pull down mans. We also hand an upright record player which we called a Victrola or phonograph. It played the old wax 78 rpm records and used a steel needle. It was also a wind-up player and would often have to be wound up. We did have a hand pump in front of the steps and the older boys had to take turns getting the water for the day whenever needed. We also all had to take turns dusting the erasers by pounding them together outside of the school. We had 10 minute recesses every hour and an hour, I believe, for lunch. we also had a flag which the teacher put and took down every day. We also had one other distinctive feature. In the storeroom was a table and a hotplate for cooking. Most days our teacher made hot soup for us to eat. This was really a radical innovation way ahead of it's time. This occurred the last few years we attended the school. shortly after the consolidation of the area the school was sold to a farmer about a mile and one-half north of the school. He then moved it to his farm and attached it to his small house where it still exists today. Bob Ferguson in Iowa Researching Ferguson-Moore-Grice-Gates-Benna-Johnson-Wenell ************** A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219957551x1201325337/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.fre ecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID%3D62%26bcd%3Dfebe mailfooterNO62)

My mom got her first teaching job in a very small town in south- central Nebraska in the mid-1930's; her contract specified she could teach until she married. The reason was: male fear! If a female teacher got married, she might become pregnant, and the school board didn't want teachers to have to explain what was going on and how they got that way! Heaven forbid! She married in 1941 and the rules weren't changed until right before the second World War! I could never quite figure that out; the kid's teachers couldn't be pregnant but their moms surely could, so what's the big diff???