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 ORRIN ROBERTSON, originator and founder of the Vita-O-Pathic Non-Surgical Sanitarium of Clariton, who enjoys a large following of patients and friends, is a man of intellectual gifts, and life long habits of study have brought him in contact with the deepest sources of philosophy, religion and the science of medicine. He was born in Cass County, Missouri, May 28, 1858, son of Jefferson and Martha Robertson. Doctor Robertson has received thirty-one diplomas from various institutions of learning both in America and in Europe. He holds degrees in law and medicine from the University of Iowa. He studied and qualified for the ministry and spent two years in missionary work in old Mexico. For four years he was an instructor in the New York College of Megnetics, holds a diploma in osteopathy, is a fellow of the Eastern Section of Theosophy, is a Doctor of Spiritual Science, Doctor of Philosophy, and in the ministry was identified with the Chirothesian Church of Faith at Los Angeles. He is a member of the Society of Oriental Mystics. For some years he was on the lecture platform, devoting most of his attention to topics along new thought lines. He has conducted several sanitaria similar to the one he established at Chariton. He has written extensively on medical and health subjects, and in his practice has held to the central ideas expressed in the slogan "Eat right - Breathe right - Think right." 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)

Is there are group of Iowans who ride bikes in the winter called the Polar bear Bicycle club? Possibly in Cedar Rapids. I know people go swimming in the ice in the winter, but ride a bike? 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)

Great gram Beebe told me that her father had a hemp rope from the stoop to the barn so he could feed and milk the cows whithot getting lost. That was Shelby County so I guess they often had whiteout blizzards making it difficult to navigate from point A to point B. They had a sleigh with two horses that pulled them to church and back. I have to hand it to all of our tough ancestors. donkelly

Thanks for all of this. Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: <NHBigRed@aol.com> To: <IOWA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 10:33 PM Subject: [IOWA] how they managed in the snow > Hi Karen, > I'm old enough (92) to remember the horse and buggy days as well as the > old > cars. There were no heaters in the buggies or for that matter the heaters > in > the cars were not that good. My old Model T had a heater called a manifold > heater. It mounted on the manifold and directed some heat back into the > car. > However, we were used to cold so we could cope with it. We dressed warm > and > wore boots or galoshes to keep our feet warm. Wool socks also helped. > Then we > also had the "long Johns" to help keep us warm. Those wool Johns sure did > the > job but they were itchy. Along with warm mittens and scarfs we were > bundled up > pretty good. As a kid I walked about a mile to school and thought nothing > of > it. Everybody did it so what's the beef? Most houses had wood burning > stoves > or coal stoves to keep the house warm. The outhouses got pretty cold when > needed. No one did any reading out there. > > > Thanks everyone. Are there anymore about how they managed in the snow > back before modern heating and cars. Was it like Little House on the > Prairie? > Karen > > > **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 > easy > steps! > (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1218822736x1201267884/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 >

My generation of Browns arrived in Iowa in the early 1800's as did the Cassidys and Murrays. All seemed to settle in the Dubuque area.Michael Brown born in Eire 1826 married Mary Josephine Mc Mahon and among their children was Clarence Brown who married Sadie Cassidy and they sired my father Gerald Cassidy Brown. Regards to all Iowans Richard Warren Brown

These stories are all to the good for me as I want to understand what life was like for my ancestors who lived in Iowa although my main line was only there from 1850 to 1865 or so in Henry, Mahaska, and Van Buren counties. I still don't know why they decided to move there from the grandfather down to four of his sons and two of his daughters and their families from Kentucky. Karen _____________________________________________ > > 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 read it. It was so sad and so amazing. Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grace Keir" <gkeir@hickorytech.net> To: "'Mark Hadlund'" <KRAM95@cox.net>; <IOWA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 3:17 PM Subject: Re: [IOWA] Iowa Winters > If you haven't read it, "The Children's Blizzard" by David Laskin, it will > give you an idea what it was like during a blizzard on the prairie. It is > about the Jan. 1888 blizzard which took the lives of many people. > > Grace > > You wrote: > I learned that five of my Rief family members, the mother and the four > youngest children, all had died in 1885. That many deaths in so short of a > time had me wondering. Some research and a weather forcast lead me to a > blizzard that happened in Iowa, including Pottawattamie County. There were > a > few record lows with temps more than twenty degrees below zero. > > > > _____________________________________________ > > 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 >

When Iowa opened up as a state, many new arrivals came from the eastern and southern states seeking land on which to farm. By 1850, land was plentiful and many of the early settlers were either Mormons (Latter Day Saints) who came in the 1840's with that movement, or were foreign immigrants seeking a new life. If your family was like mine, they moved from Kentucky to Illinois or Indiana, and then into Iowa and points west. My ancestors seemed to be always on the move and finally settled on a farm in Nebraska. I love all old books, brochures, pamphlets and other ephemera about Iowa and have a lovely little book (about 4 inches by 6 inches) privately published originally in 1836 by Henry S. Tanner of Philadelphia, and re-published by the Iowa State Historical Society in 1935. It is called "The Book That Gave Iowa Its Name; Notes on The Wisconsin Territory; particularly with reference to The Iowa District or Black Hawk Purchase," by Lieutenant Albert M. Lea, United States Dragoons. It contains a wonderful original map in the back of the book. Because the book was designed to entice settlers, he gives a very different description of Iowa winters, as follows: "The Winter is generally dry, cold, and bracing; the waters are all bridged with ice; the snow is frequently deep enough to afford good sleighing, and it is considered the best season for travelling, by those who are able to bear exposure to a cold atmosphere. The winter usually commences about the 1st of December, and ends early in March; although the southern part of the District, we often have fine pleasant weather in mid-winter. There is never so much snow, even as far north as Prairie du Chien, as to interrupt the travelling; and as every prairie is a high road, we scarcely feel the obclusion of the icy season." A romantic but not very accurate description of winters in Iowa, I'd say. I grew up in Council Bluffs and still remember standing waiting for the school bus in minus-20 wind chills! I've lived in Arizona for the last 25 years, and last January moved to North Carolina. Today it's sleeting and raining ice in the Carolinas. What am I doing here?! Mona ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Conroy" <karen.conroy@virgin.net> To: <IOWA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 1:39 PM Subject: Re: [IOWA] Iowa Winters > These stories are all to the good for me as I want to understand what life > was like for my ancestors who lived in Iowa although my main line was only > there from 1850 to 1865 or so in Henry, Mahaska, and Van Buren counties. > I > still don't know why they decided to move there from the grandfather down > to > four of his sons and two of his daughters and their families from > Kentucky. > > Karen > > > _____________________________________________ >> >> 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

Hi Karen, I'm old enough (92) to remember the horse and buggy days as well as the old cars. There were no heaters in the buggies or for that matter the heaters in the cars were not that good. My old Model T had a heater called a manifold heater. It mounted on the manifold and directed some heat back into the car. However, we were used to cold so we could cope with it. We dressed warm and wore boots or galoshes to keep our feet warm. Wool socks also helped. Then we also had the "long Johns" to help keep us warm. Those wool Johns sure did the job but they were itchy. Along with warm mittens and scarfs we were bundled up pretty good. As a kid I walked about a mile to school and thought nothing of it. Everybody did it so what's the beef? Most houses had wood burning stoves or coal stoves to keep the house warm. The outhouses got pretty cold when needed. No one did any reading out there. Thanks everyone. Are there anymore about how they managed in the snow back before modern heating and cars. Was it like Little House on the Prairie? Karen **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1218822736x1201267884/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62)

I have lived here all my life and have enjoyed all the stories about our snow storms. When it gets HOT this summer will we get more stories. I hope so. June

Everything on all of these IAGenWeb sites has been contributed by volunteers! Thanks to all of them! New on Allamakee co. IAGenWeb - find links to all of the new records on the Update Journal: http://sharylscabin.com/Allamakee/journal.htm ALLAMAKEE ALBUM *James Ryan family - from Sean Ryan *T.H. Barnes family - from Robert Bee *Bollman family - from Marcia Harris *Clark family - from Marcia Harris BIOGRAPHIES - misc. sources *William T. Bolman - from Cindy Bray Lovell CEMETERY RECORDS *Oak Hill cemetery update files A-H & R-Y- from Paul Moritz Gravestone Photo Project (GPP)" *Gravestone photos for the St. Joseph's/Paint Rock cemetery - from S. Ferrall *Gravestone photos for Evergreen cemetery - from Kelly Schmall *Gravestone photos for Rossville cemetery - from Kelly Schmall CHURCH RECORDS *Forest Mills church & school photo - from Marcia Harris *St. Pete's UCC, Church Directory (ca1966), brief history, lots of photos & member list - from Errin Wilker DEATH RECORDS *Estate of Mary A. Murphy, newspaper notice - from Ann Krumme *Misc. Allamakee Co. Death Records - from Robert Bee HISTORICAL ITEMS - misc. *Allamakee co. Photographers, updated - from Errin Wilker *1855 Postoffices & Postmasters - from Cindy Bray Lovell LETTERS & DIARIES *Letters written by Dr. Thomas H. Barnes & his wife Julia A. Orr Barnes, 1854 & 1884 - from Robert Bee *Letters by David McGoon & Samuel Ackerly, published in the 'The True Latter Days Saints Herald', 1870 - from Cindy Bray Lovell LI'L BITS *News bits were added 1958 to 1970's *Vintage Advertisements from the New Albin Post, September 1928 - from Errin Wilker *Grand Meadow Country Club is 90 - from Errin Wilker *News extracts, 1879-1884, mentioning Dr. T.H. Barnes of Waukon and others - from Robert Bee LOOK-UP VOLUNTEERS *Sean Ryan has volunteered to do look-ups in 'Grass Between the Rails' MARRIAGE RECORDS *Added to compiled marriage records: Hector-Sawyer, Kerndt-Jansen, Schlitter-Mielke, Swenson-Starry, Hendrickson-Vick, Siewers-Byrne, Bassler-Hogan, Beato-Towle, Bulman-Kehr, Spiegler-Bresnahan, Mahoney-Callahan, Henry-Waters, Coleman-Condon & Knudtson-Severide - from Ann Krumme & Cindy Bray Lovell *Added to licenses & marriage announcements: Mahoney-Callahan, Bohrer-Mooney, Flynn-McKenna, Gruber-Henry - from Ann Krumme *Added to Anniversaries: Clark, 1943 & Spencer, 1955 - from Cindy Bray Lovell OBITUARIES *140 new obits were posted to our Obit Boards in February! Some have a photo. The obits have been shared by Patrick J. Utecht, Sharyl Ferrall, Mary Durr, AdaMarie Kerndt, Cindy Bray Lovell, 'LA', Sean Ryan, Henry Brainard, Ann Krumme, Erin Wilker, A. Bruce Owens & Janet Koozer REUNIONS *1981 Rush Family Reunion - from Janet Koozer SCHOOL RECORDS *Forest Mills school & church photo - from Marcia Harris SURNAME REGISTRY *John A. Andresen has registered his surname interest 'Flack' *Harold G. Kaeser has updated his email for surnames Deremore, Kaeser & Nelson VISITING ALLAMAKEE CO. *DOT maps link added - from Errin Wilker ________ Off-site links to newly posted data containing Allamakee co. people *Iowa Old Press www.iowaoldpress.com, Allamakee Journal and Lansing Mirror, July 3, 1929 and August 7, 1929 issues - posted by Ann Krumme *Iowa Old Press www.iowaoldpress.com, Allamakee Journal, February 7, 1900 & November 13, 1907 issues- posted by Errin Wilker __________________ New on Clayton co. IAGenWeb - find links to all of the new records on the Update Journal: http://sharylscabin.com/Clayton/journal.htm BIOGRAPHIES - misc. *Samuel Murdoch, Willis Drummond, Elias H. Williams, L.O. Hatch & J.O. Crosby - from Ken Wright CEMETERY RECORDS - GRAVESTONE PHOTO PROJECT *Nearly 200 gravestone photos were submitted for County Corners cemetery - from Phyllis Peterson *3 gravestone photos for Bethel cemetery were submitted - from anon *21 gravestone photos for National cemetery - from Kelly Schmall *84 gravestone photos for Communia cemetery - from Phyllis Peterson *39 gravestone photos for Pleasant Grove cemetery - from Kelly Schmall *3 gravestone photos for First Evangelical Lutheran -aka Swedish cemetery - from Kelly Schmall *9 gravestone photos for Monona City cemetery - from Kelly Schmall *19 gravestone photos for Council Hill cemetery - from Kelly Schmall *9 gravestone photos for Giard cemetery - from Kelly Schmall CENSUS RECORDS *1870 US census, Farmersburg twp. - from Carrie Robertson DIRECTORIES & GAZETTEERS *Misc. physicians, druggists, etc. - from Errin Wilker DOCUMENTS - misc. *Grand Meadow Country Club 1916-2006 - from Errin Wilker MILITARY RECORDS *Clayton co. World War I Discharge Records (J-Z) have been updated with many more names linked to the records - from Constance Diamond *Civil War discharges updated with the record of Louis Stoeffler - from Constance Diamond OBITUARIES *63 new obits were posted to the Obituary Board in, some with photos; contributed by Mary Durr, Sean Ryan, Gary Sheffert, Ann Krumme, Kelly Schmall, Erin Wilker, Sharyl Ferrall, Ken Wright, AdaMarie Kerndt, Ken Johnson PHOTO ALBUM *Pg 2 of the Jennings family album was updated - from Helen Jennings SURNAME REGISTRY *Joanne D. Fay has updated her email address for surnames Wiltse & Lish *Barry Buelow has registered surnames Barry & Flynn. He is interested in the Michael Barry family living near Estus Point in late 1800's - early 1900's, and some Flynns that lived with the Barry's. *S. Todd Valle has registered surname Valle. His gggg-gfather was Ole Halvorson Valle. *John A. Andresen has registered surname 'Flack'. Flack family from western Illinois > eastern Iowa. *Gregory Stotts has registered surname Knickerbocker. Clement Knickerbocker and his wife Matilda Mae Sickles. He'd like to find an obituary for Clement Knickerbocker (Died 15 Nov 1957). *A researcher has registered surnames 'Ward' and 'Calligan'. Her great-grandparents were Margaret Calligan & Cornelius Ward. *Barbara Bartels has registered surnames Trescott, Richardson, Granger, Trunkey, Row, Pier, Davis & Chapman. Researching the families of Ira Trescott and Josiah Richardson who moved to Clayton Co. about 1850. *Donna Sahagian has registered surnames Becker, Behrens, Berns & Betz. Becker, John b.1821, Becker; Elizabeth Behrens (Berns) b.1832; Becker, Casper b. 1813; Betz, Anton b.1822; & Betz, Magdalena (Mary) Becker b. 1826 Happy Ancestor Hunting! Sharyl Ferrall Allamakee co. & Clayton co. IAGenWeb coordinator http://iagenweb.org/clayton http://iagenweb.org/allamakee

The 1880 census indicates whether a person is ill at the time. I know of a family whose 6 yr. old daughter is shown on the census as having diptheria. Although her death was not recorded in the court house, I found her parents adopted a child a couple years later and there was no older child still in the family so I have to assume she died. Another family I know of lost two of their four children in the early 1880's within a few days of ea. other due to diptheria as I found newspaper articles. Nothing recorded in the court house about the deaths. A short newspaper article expressed the parents thanks for the help they'd received from the community. I've not had much luck in locating deaths in the Iowa court houses until later than 1880 as many were not recorded in the death records for about 5-10 yrs. after that even though they were supposed to be reported. My gr grandfather died in February 1882 in Iowa and there is no record about him except for a small newspaper account. The Iowa State Historical Library in Des Moines has a wonderful collection of old newspapers. juanita > > Most Iowa counties were keeping death records by 1880. (Many even > earlier.) I have not researched in Pottawattamie Co., but if it is > like others, at the courthouse, there will be a "death record" > recorded, and those usually list the cause of death. Also, you can > then request the "death certificate" which may have more information > on it. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Hadlund" <KRAM95@cox.net> > > >I learned that five of my Rief family members, the mother and the > >four youngest children, all had died in 1885. That many deaths in so > >short of a time had me wondering. Some research and a weather forcast > >lead me to a blizzard that happened in Iowa, including Pottawattamie > >County. There were a few record lows with temps more than twenty > >degrees below zero. > > > > A small notice in The Daily Nonpareil said that two of his girls > > died of an illness and their mother was ailing as well. > > Unfortunatley about a weeks worth of the February paper is missing. > > I'll need to do some further research to see what else, if anything, > > can be found. > > > > Mark

It seems lots of people died of illnesses in Iowa, and not from just smallpox alone. Some could have frozen to death of course. In my research I found several places where ancestors just dissapeared between census, or two or more family members died in the same week or month, so I started paying more attention to diseases that killed yours and mine. A new section of my county website deals with this subject. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iadesmoi/Illness/illnesses.htm I hope this may help someone. donkelly ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Hadlund" <KRAM95@cox.net> To: <IOWA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:30 PM Subject: [IOWA] Iowa Winters >I learned that five of my Rief family members, the mother and the four >youngest children, all had died in 1885. That many deaths in so short of a >time had me wondering. Some research and a weather forcast lead me to a >blizzard that happened in Iowa, including Pottawattamie County. There were >a few record lows with temps more than twenty degrees below zero. > > A small notice in The Daily Nonpareil said that two of his girls died of > an illness and their mother was ailing as well. Unfortunatley about a > weeks worth of the February paper is missing. I'll need to do some further > research to see what else, if anything, can be found. > > Mark > _____________________________________________ > > 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 also had ancesters from Story Co., IA. that had three son's who died near the same time. William Spencer d. 11 Sep. 1883 Charles Spencer d. 19 Sep. 1883 Elbert Spencer d. 23 Sep 1883 All were sons of David Hallam & Sarah Ann SPENCER. and died at ages of 12,10, & 6. I was told that they all had Diphtheria. They are all buried in the same cemetery lot with one grave marker with all three names, in the Pleasant Grove cemetery in Milford Township Bob S. In a message dated 3/1/2009 9:10:57 A.M. Central Standard Time, ocollaugh@comcast.net writes: It seems lots of people died of illnesses in Iowa, and not from just smallpox alone. Some could have frozen to death of course. In my research I found several places where ancestors just dissapeared between census, or two or more family members died in the same week or month, so I started paying more attention to diseases that killed yours and mine. A new section of my county website deals with this subject. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iadesmoi/Illness/illnesses.htm I hope this may help someone. donkelly ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Hadlund" <KRAM95@cox.net> To: <IOWA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:30 PM Subject: [IOWA] Iowa Winters >I learned that five of my Rief family members, the mother and the four >youngest children, all had died in 1885. That many deaths in so short of a >time had me wondering. Some research and a weather forcast lead me to a >blizzard that happened in Iowa, including Pottawattamie County. There were >a few record lows with temps more than twenty degrees below zero. > > A small notice in The Daily Nonpareil said that two of his girls died of > an illness and their mother was ailing as well. Unfortunatley about a > weeks worth of the February paper is missing. I'll need to do some further > research to see what else, if anything, can be found. > > Mark > _____________________________________________ > > 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 **************Get a jump start on your taxes. Find a tax professional in your neighborhood today. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=Tax+Return+Preparation+%26+Filing&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000004)

My gr.-gr.-grandfather, Daniel Nolan, died in the blizzard of January 1888, which was written about in the David Laskin's book, "The Children's Blizzard." He lived in South Dakota with his wife and children. The storm was all over that area, Iowa included. The family had to return to Iowa. Patricia (Engle) Morris -------------------------------------------------- From: "Karen Conroy" <karen.conroy@virgin.net> Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 10:35 AM To: "Grace Keir" <gkeir@hickorytech.net>; "'Mark Hadlund'" <KRAM95@cox.net>; <IOWA@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [IOWA] Iowa Winters > I read it. It was so sad and so amazing. > > Karen > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Grace Keir" <gkeir@hickorytech.net> > To: "'Mark Hadlund'" <KRAM95@cox.net>; <IOWA@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 3:17 PM > Subject: Re: [IOWA] Iowa Winters > > >> If you haven't read it, "The Children's Blizzard" by David Laskin, it >> will >> give you an idea what it was like during a blizzard on the prairie. It >> is >> about the Jan. 1888 blizzard which took the lives of many people. >> >> Grace >> >> You wrote: >> I learned that five of my Rief family members, the mother and the four >> youngest children, all had died in 1885. That many deaths in so short of >> a >> time had me wondering. Some research and a weather forcast lead me to a >> blizzard that happened in Iowa, including Pottawattamie County. There >> were >> a >> few record lows with temps more than twenty degrees below zero. >> >> >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> 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 >

I remember that blizzard! And the entire winter. I was only about 6 years old but it was very memorable. We lived on a rather hilly farm about 4 miles north of Hedrick in Keokuk County. ("The Utterback place where the old rock house used to be.") There was a sort of shallow ravine between the house and the barn. Snow was drifted so high that my dad actually had to dig a tunnel through part of it in order to get to the horses and milk cows stabled in the barn. I remember the tunnel well because when I was allowed outside to play for a few minutes, I ran back and forth through the (forbidden and probably dangerous) snow tunnel and had so much fun it was worth getting in trouble for it. Then I was inside the house and watched my dad chip and dig steps into the steep hill beyond the house to reach another barn on top of the hill where more cattle had taken shelter during the night. The water tank was frozen over of course, so he had to clear away the snow and ice. He slid back! down the hill on his backside but I don't know if he planned it that way or not. At another point during that winter or maybe another one, I was extremely ill with what was probably strep although I heard someone whisper "diphtheria." Antibiotics (sulfa) had just become available but the town doctor had to order from a larger place than Hedrick. The unpaved country roads were impassable and although I slept through most of it, I heard my parents talking to the doctor on the phone and they sounded worried. Later there was a knock on the door and a blast of cold wind and then Dr. Perkins (anybody remember him?) came in waving a small paper bag, shouting, "It came! It came! I got it!" Then he came to my bed and told me he had ridden out on his horse and he had brought me some wonderful new medicine that would make me well again. And it did! I had my tonsils out the next summer. Like so many Iowans, I live in California now. The memories are bittersweet but I wouldn't want to be there again in winter. Jeanne Surber >I have a newpaper clipping dated April 6, 1938, that my folks saved. It's >about highway 63 four miles north of Waterloo being closed for 14 hours by a >four-foot snowdrift that was 600 feet long. My mom & dad, aunt, & 2-year-old >cousin were in one of the 35 cars that were unable to get through. They >spent the night at a farm house along with a group of other people. Mother said >they gathered around a pot belly stove all night, & in the morning the lady >of the house fixed pancakes for everybody. >I was born the following October, so that was the first of many Iowa >blizzards that I was present for. I lived in Waterloo, Iowa, till I was 20, then >moved to Nebraska (same weather there.) >My favorite winter memories are ice-skating all winter at various outdoor >rinks around Waterloo. >Kay B.

? This talk makes me recall the winter of either 1963 or '64.....somewhere around there.........Council Bluffs hit -27, and the snow was coming down so hard & it was so windy that I literally could not see my hand in front of my face as I walked?home after being dropped off by the school bus at the foot of the hill leading to our house.? I believe that was one of the very few times school had to close early or was cancelled altogether. ? I remember being terrified the time that I "lost" my little sister when she fell into a snowdrift.? We had been walking where we thought the sidewalk was, but it turned out that were actually walking along a raised yard - when we got to the end of it, she stepped right off, not realizing that she was going to sink.? The heavy snow had made the entire area appear level, when it was actually on two levels, one about 4 feet higher than the other. ? Now I live outside of Dallas, TX, and when the weatherman even hints of temperatures falling below 32 degrees, everyone makes their "Plan B" arrangements, in case there is precipitation.? That's because even?a slight rain that freezes will bring the entire Metroplex to a standstill, and for good reason - our streets & highways will freeze into one solid ice slick. Laurie (McCampbell) Bornstein -----Original Message----- From: Jim <neiersj@hiwaay.net> To: Sharon Becker <srbecker@iowatelecom.net>; IOWA@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 7:28 am Subject: Re: [IOWA] Iowa Winters I don't know if it is all this Iowa snow disussion or the fact that I am watching it snow outside my window, RIGHT NOW, here in Alabama that makes me remember many Iowa winters. As nostalgic as they may be, I really do not miss them. The snow we are having is just a dusting with big flakes and almost no accumulation. It will satisfy my masochistic snow lust for the year. Jim in Huntsville ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Becker" <srbecker@iowatelecom.net> To: <IOWA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 6:08 AM Subject: Re: [IOWA] Iowa Winters > I've put a photograph my relatives took of the Blizzard of 1936 > on Ringgold County's IAGenWeb site: > http://iagenweb.org/ringgold/photos/1936blizzard.html > > I recall that winter of 1966. We missed school the entire month of > January. Snow drifts were up to the eaves of the grainery and it > was an ordeal getting to the barn and back. We were milking about > 45 cows at the time and it is the only time that they never left the > barn lot. I resorted to using an old Iowan handwarmer while > helping milk the cows (hands inserted up between the cow's bag > and right rear leg.) It was so cold and so much snow that even > my brother's Shetland pony behaved herself. We also let the > farm dogs in the house that January. We hauled feed to the livestock > using our kids' sleds with the youngest kids sitting on the back of the > sleds to make sure the buckets didn't tip over. > Sharon R. Becker > Ringgold County IAGenWeb Coordinator > srbecker@iowatelecom.net > > > _____________________________________________ > > 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

Mark, Most Iowa counties were keeping death records by 1880. (Many even earlier.) I have not researched in Pottawattamie Co., but if it is like others, at the courthouse, there will be a "death record" recorded, and those usually list the cause of death. Also, you can then request the "death certificate" which may have more information on it. Maybe someone on the list lives nearby and could help you out with that. Kate ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Hadlund" <KRAM95@cox.net> To: <IOWA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 1:30 AM Subject: [IOWA] Iowa Winters >I learned that five of my Rief family members, the mother and the four >youngest children, all had died in 1885. That many deaths in so short of a >time had me wondering. Some research and a weather forcast lead me to a >blizzard that happened in Iowa, including Pottawattamie County. There were >a few record lows with temps more than twenty degrees below zero. > > A small notice in The Daily Nonpareil said that two of his girls died of > an illness and their mother was ailing as well. Unfortunatley about a > weeks worth of the February paper is missing. I'll need to do some further > research to see what else, if anything, can be found. > > Mark > _____________________________________________ > > 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: 270.11.5/1978 - Release Date: 03/01/09 07:04:00

Hello Dick, Ruth and All Contributors, My POUND family settled in Black Hawk county, I love to hear stories about your weather. I live near Tampa, Florida and spent yesterday at the beach, it was lovely. Good to hear from everyone. Marie Pound Researching: POUND and BENNETT in Iowa

If you haven't read it, "The Children's Blizzard" by David Laskin, it will give you an idea what it was like during a blizzard on the prairie. It is about the Jan. 1888 blizzard which took the lives of many people. Grace You wrote: I learned that five of my Rief family members, the mother and the four youngest children, all had died in 1885. That many deaths in so short of a time had me wondering. Some research and a weather forcast lead me to a blizzard that happened in Iowa, including Pottawattamie County. There were a few record lows with temps more than twenty degrees below zero.