Hello again Susan & Iowa list. Just wanted to correct myself in this last email: I am Iowa born, but have lived across the country for 50 years...which makes me old enough to be forgetful. Right? Just the best part of me is Iowan! Sandy Childs On Mar 20, 2009, at 9:36 PM, Sandra L. Childs wrote: > Hello Susan: > > Great story. Your folks were amazing and I hope I would have the > courage to do so when the times comes. > > I do have one question about the location of Mallory, Jefferson Twp, > Louisa County? Is this in Iowa? (I am Iowa born but am sorely lacking > in knowledge of towns, counties, etc.) The reason I ask is that I > have just discovered my Swiss gg grandmother and her large family were > living in Mallory, Clayton Co., Iowa. (Twp. of Jefferson has been > mentioned in a letter also.) What do you think? > > Just curious. > > > Sandy Childs > > Researching Mallory residents: Gisiger, Schroeder, Mosier/Moser. > > > > On Mar 20, 2009, at 8:52 AM, ra4055@aol.com wrote: > >> 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 >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> 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/ > _____________________________________________ > ---------------------------------------- > Your support makes IAGenWeb possible. > ~Visit The Friends of IAGenWeb Store today~ > http://www.cafepress.com/iagenweb/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > 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