Grave sites my lost relatives.

GRISWOLD, BOLTE

Posted By: Ron Whites (email)
Date: 4/22/2003 at 21:06:40

--Background--
My Grandfather was William Bolte (b1891-d1972) and he married Silva Viola Griswold-Bolte.
My grandfather Bolte bought his father-in-laws 160 acre farm in about 1920 from Benjamin Franklin Griswold. This farm was/is located 2 miles south of La Motte in Jackson county Ia.
Benjamin Franklin and Catherine Mary (Wiegart)Griswold inherited/purchased this same farm from his parents George and Mary Ann (Garrigus) Griswold around 1880s.
I have a picture of a large white two story farmhouse from about 1910 and I believe this house should still exist today.
William Bolte had a father named Christian Bolte and a brother named Andrew. William had more siblings but I am unsure of the given names.
Andrew Bolte (b1896) died in Maquoketa,Ia in 1984.
I am aware that Andrew Bolte (d1984) and Mary Ann Griswold (d1880s) are buried somewhere in Jackson Co. Iowa.
As further they were German Lutherans.
--Queries--
1. I would like to find the cemetary-tombstone locations for my Bolte and Griswold accestors in Jackson County.
2. I would like to learn what I can of my ancestry in Iowa and establish contacts to any living distant "cousins" in Iowa whereever they are now.
Thanks Ron Whites Costa Mesa Ca.