Re: Iowa Death Records.

MILLER, KAPPES

Posted By: Neil Hall (email)
Date: 2/14/2010 at 18:43:40

In Response To: Iowa Death Records. (Dove Sky)

The state record wouldn't have any more info than the county record. Iowa death records contents have varied a lot over the years. The state would have gotten their data from the county anyhow.

Melissa and her husband Valentine were in Stephenson county, IL in 1870 and 1880. According to the census, Melissa was born 1844-1846 in IL to an OH father, and OH or PA born mother.

1850 census Florence, Stephenson County, IL
Miller, Catherine, 37, PA
Rachel, 18, OH
Levi, 16, OH
Louisa, 13, OH - uncertain on name
Ar??ha, 11 OH
Melissa, 5, IL

Her brother Levi may have also came to NE Iowa. Possibly it is him in Allamakee county in 1870, then in Chickasaw County in 1880 and 1885. Catherine Miller, age 55, b. PA is living next door to him in 1870. On the 1880 census Catherine is living with Levi, listed mother, Catherine Lee, so she may have remarried.

Iowa cemetery record for this Levi, perhaps you can get an obit for him, or check out his death record.
Name: Levi Miller
Death Date: 1914
Page #: 84
Birth Date: 1837
Cemetery: Maple Grove
Town: Fredericksburg
Comment: wif: Sarah
Level Info: Gravestone Records of Chickasaw County, Ia.

Illinois Marriage record
KAPPES, VALENTINE MILLER, MELISSA 1866-05-06 / 137 STEPHENSON

You might want to check land ownership records and probate records in Stephenson County. That might help you to determine Melissa's father's name.

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