anne wrote: > It may have been a TB facility...my mother and a cousin both had TB and were > confined to a facility in Iowa City, Iowa... Would someone in Ohio have been sent to Iowa? My husband's great-grandfather died in Iowa. The family lived in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, but he died in Iowa and no one today seems to know what he was doing there. He was buried in Marietta. I recently found someone in Iowa who found his obituary and he did have TB. Joanne Mangilao, Guam USA