Hi LaWanda, Iowa place names past & present indicate it was in Keokuk co, unknown twp. Dick May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! Irish proverb ----- Original Message ----- From: "LaWanda Nepstad" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 1:28 PM Subject: [IOWA] Iowa Old Press - Olean > Does anyone know where Olean is or was? I would like to find this Field family in a census but haven't had any luck in Iowa or Missouri. > > "Olean claims the champion big family of the country, the head of which > is W.A. Field. He is the happy father of 31 children, twenty-seven of whom > live at home with papa and mamma. The father is 57 years old and the > interesting brood consists of three sets of quadruplets, five sets of > triplets, three sets of twins, while one by some strange mishap came into > the world singly. Thirty-one of these children are living eight being > boys. - -Ridgeway Evening Star." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 1768 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter for free now!