Remembering Dora Trueblood

TRUEBLOOD

Posted By: Volunteer
Date: 5/13/2006 at 17:01:44

Mt. Pleasant News
September 17, 1945

The Bystander's Notes

In the recent death of Miss Dora Trueblood, this paper lost its oldest rural correspondent. We are not sure how long Miss Trueblood wrote for the News, but it must have been between 40 and 45 years. She lived with her foster parents in the Denova community and her notes were long familiar to readers of our daily and weekly editions as "Denova Notes" Miss Trueblood never got away from the pen and pencil and wrote a beautiful Spencerian script. In later years she dropped her Denova Notes as the post office was suspended, but until a few weeks before her death, constantly brought, or sent to the office, items of news. For some years she rented her fine 80 acre farm on the Salem prairie, but lived at the old home; later she left the farm and lived here, at Hillsboro and other places, but was always homesick for the old home farm. Old timers will remember Denova, with its general store. It was a station on the old K line and a postoffice. Today the store, the post office, and even the rail road are but memories. All gone but the Cedar Creek church and its burying ground where Miss Trueblood sleeps among the friends of the old Denova days.