Re: Karr family from Highland Co IA to Marion/Warren Co IA
KARR, BROUSE, SCHMIDT, BLAASE
Posted By: Gayle (email) In Response To: Re: Karr family from Highland Co IA to Marion/Warren Co IA (Jim O'Connell)
Date: 12/26/2005 at 21:37:34
I am sorry I can't give you exact information, I can tell you that if any of Saphronia's children are residing in Iowa at the time of the state 1925 census, it does ask for a maiden name of their mother. That however looks quite unlikely. There is a history of Marion Co, IA that mentions the Brouse family, but I don't think it gives the information you are seeking. I do not connect personally to the Brouse family, so I haven't worked back fuirther on it that just those records in Marion County, IA. I have James M. Brous who married Mary Karr.
Have you ordered the Civil War pension application for James Reed? If he died during or after the Civil War, Saphronia may have applied for a pension that would give her maiden name as she would have to prove that they were married. Even if she remarried, if she married a Civil War veteran and applied for a pension under his record she would still have to prove she was married to Reed as well.
Have you checked for marriage records for the Reeds in Highland, Ross and other counties circling Highland?
Have you checked obituaries of Saphronia's children to see if they list their mother's maiden name? What about their death certificates? Do you have an obituary for her? I don't know what newspapers are available for the area where they resided at the time of the Civil War but there may be an article there if he died during the war. Also there might be a record of Saphronia's children's marriages.
There are only a minimum of graves located for that area of Marion County. We believe our Karr and related family might have been buried in a small Quaker cemetery in the area. However, there are no old stones there. The records from the church burned in the 1940's, so we are lost there as well. If the cemetery had been covered by the reservoir, the Corps of Engineers would have had to move the bodies and have created a listing of those buried there to the best of their ability. I have not seen any such records.
My other problem with the Brouse family research is that it seems our James and Mary Karr Brouse children mostly died without issue. I have not been able to find much about them.
Please, stay in touch. I will be happy to offer any suggestions, and will welcome any information that you might find.
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