| 12/31/2009 |
Added obituaries for John A. and John D. Roach
Added obituary for Minnie Shaw
Added obituary for Minnie
Williams
Added obituary for Walter Smith
Added obituary for Lydia Mills
Added obituary for James Hutton |
| 12/23/2009 |
Added obituary for Hilbert Herron
Added obituary of Mary Josin Van Metre
Added obituary of William B.
Wagner
Added coal article to Odds and Ends |
| 12/06/2009 |
Added transcription of first 68 pages
of Oak Hill Cemetery interment book
Added gravestone birthdate calculator and
forever calendar calculator
Updated personal web sites with Vaubel
extended family photographs
Updated user contributed death records
Added biography of William Henry Stiles |
| 10/12/2009 |
Updated map of county and included
detailed township maps |
| 10/02/2009 |
Added 1937
Vinton Football Banquet Program |
| 09/12/2009 |
Added obituary for Janet
Whitworth Shorten
Added obituary for John Whitworth
Added obituary for Lawrence Ohlen |
| 09/05/2009 |
Added obituary for Matilda
Stiegelmeyer
Added obituary for Anna Catherine Albright
Added picture
of August and Sophia Stiegelmeyer
Updated phone numbers for the Benton County
Historical Society |
| 08/09/2009 |
Added obituary for Nancy Meyer
Added obituary for Schneider |
| 07/27/2009 |
Added obituary for Carlton D.
Knupp |
| 07/19/2009 |
Added obituary
for Leonard H. Brecht
Added obituary for Louis
Porter Gillis
Added obituary for George Gillis
Added obituary for James W. Gillis
Added obituary for Norma June Gould
Added obituary for Pauline Tharp |
| 07/05/2009 |
Added obituary for Lyle W.
Caldwell
Added obituary for Edna F. Bergen
Added obituary for Robert John Bergen
Added obituary for Robert G.
Becker
Added obituary for Esther Marie Christianson
Added obituary for Dorothy Montgomery
Added obituary for Dorrence F. "Dick" Sweet
Added obituary for Steve Hyde
Added obituary for Elva Mae Broxey
Added obituary for Vernon B. Tumilty
Added obituary for Sam Long |
| 06/28/2009 |
Added obituary for Rad Boyer
Added obituary for Iona Borne
Added obituary for Louisa Bonesteel
Added obituary for Katie M. Bonesteel
Added obituary for Richard Blattler
Added obituary for Carla Ann Beatty
Added obituary for Lucille Bascom
Added obituary for Charlotte L. Alden
Added obituary for Chester Adair
Added obituary for Opal Achenbach
Added obituary for Onalee Abernathy |
06/21/2009 |
Added obituary
for Orlie Russell Mason
Added obituary for Dale W. Jensen
Added obituary for Evelyn Grace Kolsrud
Added obituary for Robert R. Kibbie
Added obituary for Eldon J. Lear
Added obituary for Loueva M.
Johnson
Added obituary for Louis John Deklotz
Added obituary for Harold W. Fiebelkorn
Added obituary for Lavon L. Frank
Added obituary for Mayme A.
Thompson
Added obituary for Eva Clara Day Forbes |
| 06/20/2009 |
Added obituary for Dale Vogt
Added obituary for William G. Kysely
Added obituary for Mary A. Lint
Added obituary for William T. Swallom
Added obituary for Marion Martin Swallom
Added obituary for Lucinda Swallom
Added obituary for Nancy Mae Lint
Added obituary of Pauline M. Seiler |
| 05/14/2009 |
Added
obituary for Vivian E. Smith
Added obituary for Dorothy Mae Hite
Added obituary for Charles "Chuck" Greenwood
Added obituary for Ernest Groth
Added obituary for Helen Isabelle Hyde
Added obituary for Genevieve
I. England
Added obituary for Frances C. Donels
Added obituary for Maxine Easterday |
| 05/13/2009 |
Added Social Security Death Index
for Benton county |
| 05/04/2009 |
Added obituary for Ida Carlson
Added obituary for Lyle W. Koontz
Added obituary for Ray M. Taylor
Added obituary for Woodrow Pettit |
| 05/03/2009 |
Added obituary for Evelyn F. Beck
Cadle
Added obituary for Jeanette Charlier
Added obituary for Joan M. Cihla
Added obituary for Louis Cottrell
Added obituary for Lyle James Covington
Added obituary for Georgena Coy
Added obituary for Lloyd Lavern Coy
Added obituary for William Coy
Added obituary for Lloyd Allen Cress
Added obituary for Clarence Dripps
Added obituary for Earl Nathan Reid |
| 05/02/2009 |
Updated St. Michael's
Cemetery transcription |
| 04/18/2009 |
Added obituary for Colleen Rae
Meyocks
Added obituary for Lyle A. Fowler
Added obituary for Joseph Kline
Added obituary for Samuel S. Beatty
Added obituary for Sarah E. Beatty
Added obituary for Daniel T. Beatty
Added obituary for William T. Beatty
Added obituary for Donald S. Wolfe
Added obituary for (Abe) Eberhard M. Hansen
Added 50th wedding anniversary for Cliff and
Alma Henkel
Added 50th wedding anniversary for Tony and
Laura Schmitz
Added 40th wedding anniversary for Mike and
Zelma Leibsch
Added wedding for Dennis and JoAnn Karr |
| 04/02/2009 |
Added obituary for James R.
Manley
Added obituary for Clarice Lucille Miller
Added obituary Eleanor L. Hopper |
| 03/29/2009 |
Added obituary for Maude Boyles
Added picture of Orrel
Strawhecker store in Shellsburg
Added picture of old store in
Shellsburg
Added picture of
Shellsburg canning factory
Added picture of Phillip's Cafe
in Shellsburg
Added picture of Shellsburg
class with teacher Mattie Johnson
Added picture of Donald Miller
Added picture of Clarice Miller |
| 03/22/2009 |
Added 1870 census
transcription for Homer Township
Added 1870 census transcription for
Polk Township
Added 1870
census transcription for St. Clair Township
Added 1870 census transcription for Union
Township |
| 03/15/2009 |
Added
picture of Shellsburg Gazebo
Added picture of
Shellsburg Main street
Added picture of Shellsburg
Church
Added picture of
Shellsburg Fire Station
Added picture of
Shellsburg Fire House
Added picture of
Shellsburg Pearl Street
Added pictures of
Shellsburg 1970 train derailment
Added picture of Shellsburg
Depot and Hotel |
| 02/22/2009 |
Added 1887 biographies for the people in this
list
Note: All 1887 biographies are now complete and online
Added 1887 Portraits:
Peter G. Bergen
Thomas C. Black
Carey T. Horton, M. D.
Abraham Kizer
Mrs. Margaret Kizer
Stephen D. Redfield
Milton Richey
Frank S. Rowen
Mrs. Carrie Rowen
Edwin B. Spencer
Mrs. Martha Spencer
Carlton N. Walker
Peter W. Watson
Samuel H. Watson
Added picture of Hopper family
Added picture of Goldie Sanders Slaybaugh
Added picture of Charley Calawag Sanders
Added picture of Earl and Myrtle Sanders
Added picture of Elias Hopper
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| 02/14/2009 |
Added 1887 biographies for the people in this
list
Added obituary for Earl L. Mason
Added obituary for Bessie L. Phillips
Added picture of Clair Robbins family
Added picture of George Mason's children
Added picture of Oscar and Bessie Mason
Added picture of Claude Blattler
Added picture of Bert and Minnie Sheeley
Added picture of Henry and Rebecca Graham
|
| 02/07/2009 |
Added obituary for James A. Hill
|
| 02/03/2009 |
Added picture of Ida Culver
Added picture of Roy and Clara Meskimen
Added picture of 4 generations of Van Fossen family
|
| 01/20/2009 |
Added obituary for Wort Dyer
Added obituary for John Duval
|
| 01/11/2009 |
Added 1870 census
transcription for Jackson Township
Added 1870 census transcription for
Monroe Township
Added 1870
census transcription for Town of Luzerne
Added biographies for the
following people:
John Kossuth
Beatty
Henry A.
Becker
Alvertis
Branin
James A.
Brown
Professor Joseph L.
Budd
William W.
Coats
Captain Thomas
Drummond
Davison H.
Eastman
David Henry
Frost
Benjamin L.
Griffith
Alfred
Haines
Lancelot
Johnson
Andrew R.
Kennedy
Isaac
Kiler
John
Kline
George R.
Knapp
Herman H.
Koep
William H.
LaRue
Joseph S.
Leamer
Hiram
Lipe
George A.
Lynch
John A.
McDaniel
Jacob J.
Mosnat
Bernard
Murphy
Dr. Perry
Nichols
William H. Porterfield
William B.
Ream
John G.
Robertson
Thomas P.
Rutledge
Henry Schellhouse
Buren R.
Sherman
Jesse O.
Thompson
Martin L. and Ella B. (McCartney)
Ward
Henry H.
Williams
William
Williams
The First Norwegians to Settle in Benton County,
Iowa
(Darnell, Nordland, Strand, Rosdal,
Tuttle, Ellingsen)
Added link to the 2008 What's new
page
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