Thanks for reminding us, Antoinette! As has been mentioned...it is very true that you can't trust everything you read in the newspaper either! But, as we all know, newspapers are only a secondary source of information (second-hand) that can help locate primary resources (original documents). I think I gave enough examples where many forms of information were used together to reach conclusions. In my case the second hand information concerning family lore & bios was also incorrect. The second hand information in the newspapers, in my cases, led me to clues to other documents. They well could have led me on a wild goose chase! (And they sometimes have). The moral of the story is...second hand information can be true or false or hold a tiny bit of truth! Reader beware! Cathy

I have a clipping from an Iowa newspaper, probably in Eldora, without a date, about the death of A. B. Underwood. I don't know anything about him, other than what was in the paper. "Regarding the death of A. B. Underwood, a brother of Private O. E. Underwood of Company H, forty-ninth Iowa, who was among the first to fall in the assault upon Santiago, the Iowa City Republican says: A. B. Underwood, Battery A, Second artillery, was killed at Santiago. He is a S.U.I. man of recent time. "Boyden" as he was best known to his Delta Tan Delta and other friends here, was a law student in the fall of '95 and winter of '97. He was afterwards passed by the supreme court, and was practicing at Eldora when called to the front. He was as brave and fearless as Roosevelt himself and will be greatly mourned by his Spanish battery. He was one of the first two men killed in the first artillery fight of the campaign." juanita