I believe in the past month or so there was a question as to why so many people from Meigs Co., Ohio moved to Iowa. Today while reading an old newspaper from Meigs I came across this article. This may help explain the question why. Meigs County Telegraph Pomeroy, Ohio July 10, 1855 Tuesday The Emigration to Iowa Having just returned from a trip to Fort Dodge, Fort Des Moines, Iowa City, Muscatine and other points in the interior, we can testify to the most rapid emigration that ever in any one season flooded the State. Seek whatever thoroughfare you may, and you will find it lined with emigrant wagons. In many instances large droves of stock of a superior quality are met with. On our last day's drive into Iowa City from Fort Des Moines, we met 69 covered wagons seeking a home in the valley of the Des Moines. It is safe to say that the emigration to Iowa this year, will be double that of any preceding year. Dubuque Express [The above was in the Meigs Co. Telegraph July 10, 1855 followed by the below paragraph] The Ohioan who attempts a journey over the fertile and beautiful plains of that great Prairie State will be surprised, at almost every village, and in almost every stage coach, to find some old friend and neighbor from the Buckeye State. Inquiries have satisfied us that the emigration to Iowa is more numerous from this State than from any other in the Union. Almost without exception they are persons of intelligence, character, and means. They have farms of one or two hundred acres here, but they have families growing up about them, and, as they could sell their Ohio lands at -- from $20 to $70 per acre, and could buy just as good land in Iowa for $1.25, they are rapidly making the exchange. It seems by the above from the Dubuque paper, that this operation is going on with increased vigor. Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker Schumaker4@aol.com