Date: 8/14/2013 at 13:49:02
In Response To: GEORGE & MARY MORROW OBITS 1930 
(Irish Eyes Are Smiling)
Re: GEORGE & MARY MORROW OBITS 1930
MORROW
Posted By: Jim Stuber (email) In Response To: GEORGE & MARY MORROW OBITS 1930
Date: 8/14/2013 at 13:49:02
(Irish Eyes Are Smiling)
I looked in the Appanoose newspaper archives but unfortunately the years 1927 - 1931 are not in the searchable online archive.
http://centerville.advantage-preservation.com/search/site
So I looked to see what else I could find.
George and Mary Morrow lived in Adair County, MO all of their adult lives until they appear in the 1925 Iowa census in Wapello County, IA living next door to their son Alvaro. He had been there at least since 1917 per his WW I draft registration I found on ancestry.com. He was also there in the 1920 and 1930 censuses. He died and was buried there in 1938:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=morrow&GSiman=1&GScid=95751&GRid=23765771&
I can’t locate either George or Mary in the 1930 census in either Iowa or Missouri. It’s actually not that uncommon for people to be missed in censuses.
This submitted genealogy has lots of information on George and Mary and the Morrow line:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=morrowdna&id=I4121
He gives Mary’s date of death as 1935 and points to Adair county records found here:
http://www.kirksvillecity.com/content/72/150/324/default.aspx
Here is the page with the Morrow’s information:
http://www.kirksvillecity.com/filestorage/72/150/324/ForestLlewelynSections.pdf
But George’s information is clearly incorrect because here’s an official death certificate for a George W. Morrow, same name and county of death but different birth location and date, wife and parent’s names and location of burial.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/images/archives/deathcerts/1929/1929_00040642.PDF
Someone confused and combined the two people. I have no reason to believe the Mary information is incorrect though.
There’s no record of either George or Mary’s death in Missouri, and those records have been quite complete in my experience.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/
I’d say it’s most likely George and Mary died in Wapello County, IA and were buried in the place they lived most of their lives.
I see you posted a picture of their gravestone, but that’s clearly not a gravestone contemporaneous with their deaths; it’s too modern and unmarked by age. The cemetery record I posted above even says Mary had no headstone. I suspect someone put it up much later and made the best guess they could as to the date of their death.
Your best option is to write to the folks at that cemetery and see if they have burial records for George and Mary. You could also see if you can find anything about their deaths in Wapello County, IA. If you can locate death certificates it would verify where they were buried.
Good luck.
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