unsubscribe Kelly Marshall OneSecure, Inc PGP Key resides at www.keyserver.net ----- Original Message ---- From: "iowa-request@rootsweb.com" <iowa-request@rootsweb.com> To: iowa@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, January 2, 2009 1:00:37 AM Subject: IOWA Digest, Vol 4, Issue 2 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. Obituaries (Sharon Becker) 2. Bio of Rev. Clifton E. Rash (Bare67deb@aol.com) 3. A New Year's Resolution (Oregon Rain) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 02:56:33 -0600 From: "Sharon Becker" <srbecker@iowatelecom.net> Subject: [IOWA] Obituaries To: <Iowa@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <4FE88B428E2B4D7D80B0C4192C2F54BC@becker> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original I'm transcribing 2008 obituaries for Ringgold County's web site & found a couple that touched my heart. One said at the end, when mentioning survivors of an 80+-year-old man: ", and a special companion, his beloved dog Mike." Another said at the end of an obituary for a 66-yr-old man: "He loved all animals, especially his puppy Alli and kitten Zander." In ALL of the obituaries I've transcribed (over 3,000 to date), I haven't seen pets mentioned in the obituaries until I got to these two. Makes sense to me. Since I'm housebound due to a disability, I spend the bulk of my time with Sadie the dog, Squirt the kitten, and Horace & Angelo the cats. They are family, too. Just wanted to share & a thought for this, the 1st day of the New Year. Sharon R. Becker Ringgold County Coordinator ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 04:46:44 EST From: Bare67deb@aol.com Subject: [IOWA] Bio of Rev. Clifton E. Rash To: IOWA@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <d52.3c87839d.368deb04@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" 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 REV. CLIFTON E. RASH has a prominent place among the ministers of the gospel of the capital city of Des Moines, where he is in charge of the First Federated Church, with a large congregation, and a splendid organization for social and religious service. Rev. Mr. Rash was born in Salina, Kansas, March 23, 1885, son of Howard C. and Ella M. (Underwood) Rash. His grandfather, John C. Rash, was born in Tennessee, and shortly after the Civil war moved to Dallas County, Missouri, and in 1870 went to Salina, Kansas, where he was a merchant, continuing active in business until his death in 1891. The maternal grandfather, Charles R. Underwood, was a noted pioneer of Salina, Kansas, where he built the grist mill on the Smokey Hill River in 1867. This mill is still in operation, owned by the Western Star Milling Company. Howard C. Rash and wife are living at Salina. He was born in Tennessee and his wife in Ohio. Howard C. Rash became associated with his father in merchandising at Salina, and later built up an important business of his own, known as the Natural Body Brace Company, of which he has been president for thirty years. He is also vice president of the Farmers National Bank. He has been one of the most active members of the Christian Church at Salina, and has taught in Sunday School and for many years has been a member of the International Sunday School Association. He established the first graded Sunday School in this part of Kansas. Howard C. Rash is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason, having attained the thirty-third supreme honorary degree in the Scottish Rite, and is a Republican in politics, though not a seeker for political honors. He and his wife had five children. The two now living are: Leon C., associated with his father in business; and Clifton E. Clifton had a twin brother, Carlton H. Rash, who died when twenty-one years old. Clifton E. Rash was educated at Salina, in the grade and high schools there, and in 1904 received the Bachelor of Science degree from the Salina Normal University. He then spent two years in Drake University at Des Moines, pursuing theological work, and after being ordained a minister of the Christian Church spent six months in a pastorate at Chase, Kansas, for two and a quarter years was located at Plainville, and five and a half years at Lyons, Kansas. His next calls was to the Central Park Christian Church at Topeka, where he remained three and a half years and for two years, while recovering his health, did pastoral and missionary work in Stone County in Southern Missouri. Rev. Mr. Rash came to Des Moines in 1922 and took charge of The Urbandale Federated Church, now known as The First Federated Church. The church has a membership of 1,250, with an average attendance at Sunday School of 650. The church is non-denominational, and its members represent approximately thirty-two different denominations. Under the direction of Rev. Mr. Rash it is doing a splendid work and developing into an efficient instrument of religious service. Rev. Mr. Rash is a very able speaker, and outside of his regular pulpit services he averages about ten addresses and speeches in and out of the city every month. He married, in 1908, Miss Alice Young, of Salina, Kansas, daughter of John A. and Alvine (Henry) Young. Her father was born in Pennsylvania and her mother in Belgium. Her father was in the transfer and merchandise business at Salina. Her grandfather Young was a pioneer Lutheran minister in Kansas. Her grandfather Joseph Henry was an old-timer of Kansas, operated a truck garden and was widely known for his scientific knowledge of botany and related sciences, and frequently wrote articles on these subjects. Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Rash have had two children: Paul Reaville, who was born at Lyons, Kansas, September 28, 1912; and Wayne Clifton, born at Lyons April 28, 1916. Rev. Mr. Rash is a York and Scottish Rite Mason. 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) **************New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines. (http://www.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000026) ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 14:16:44 -0800 From: "Oregon Rain" <kool34tiger@webenet.net> Subject: [IOWA] A New Year's Resolution To: "Fremont List" <IAFREMON@rootsweb.com>, <IOWA@rootsweb.com>, <IADECATU@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <00ef01c96c5e$a3ea3290$eec91840@OregonRain> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Happy New Year! The new year and winter always inspires us to start something innovative. Why not make a New Year's resolution to become a county coordinator? The Volunteer Primer http://iagenweb.org/state/primer.htm will help you know more about the position. IAGenWeb has beautiful counties and several of them are ready to be adopted. New coordinators are needed for CEDAR, WARREN, LUCAS, CASS, APPANOOSE, & GUTHRIE counties. Go to http://iagenweb.org , click on the County Projects link and take a look at the available counties. Then send an email to the Welcome Hostesses with your choice of counties at welcome_to_iagenweb@iagenweb.org and we will send you an application. We will also do our best to answer any questions you might have. Let's get this year started! Greta & Conni Mac IAGenWeb Welcome Hostesses welcome_to_iagenweb@iagenweb.org ------------------------------ To contact the IOWA list administrator, send an email to IOWA-admin@rootsweb.com. 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