This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Province Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lNB.2ACI/3925 Message Board Post: THE INDEPENDANT JOURNAL Potosi, Washington County, Missouri March 25, 1948 Storm Victim Joseph Elbert Province, 96 year old citizen of near Irondale, who died from injuries sustained in last Friday morning tornado. Mr. Province was the second oldest person in this county. He was one of the pioneers of the "Province Settlement" and had spent his entire life in that vicinity. Always of a jovial nature and in excellent health, he probably would have lived several more years but destiny deemed it otherwise.