Saturday, June 12, 2010

A Poem: The Counties of Iowa

The Counties of Iowa
Published in Annals of Iowa
Volume 13, No. 8 (April 1923), Page 619
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  In the early '70's while attending school in Adel, Iowa, a teacher, Miss Mattie Ferguson, introduced to us the following composition on "The Counties of Iowa."  If she told us the name of the author it has slipped my memory, although the lines have stayed with me. I have dictated this "poem" several times in the past for publication, but in the last few months have had a number of requests for a copy. At the suggestion of our State Librarian, Johnson Brigham, I have prepared a copy for publication in the Annuals of Iowa for preservation. 
  --Almeda Brenton Harpel, 1125 Twenty-first Street, Des Moines, Iowa.
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Our home is in Iowa, westward toward the setting sun,
Just between two mighty rivers where the flowing waters run.
We have towns and we have cities; we have many 
    noble streams;
We have ninety-nine counties and now we'll say their names.

Lyon, Osceola, Dickinson, where the Spirit Lake we see,
Emmet, Kossuth, Winnebago, Worth near Lake Albert Lea.
Mitchell, Howard, Winneshiek and Allamakee shall find
Make eleven northern counties on the Minnesota line.
Clayton, Dubuque, Jackson, Clinton, together with 
    Scott and Muscatine,
Lee, Louisa and Des Moines upon the eastern line are seen.
Van Buren, Davis, Appanoose, Decatur, Ringgold, 
    Wayne we spy,
Taylor, Page and Fremont upon Missouri's border lie.
Pottawattamie, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Woodbury, 
    Plymouth, Sioux
Are all the counties around the borders of the state we view.
Next we point to O'Brien, Palo Alto, Clay, Hancock, 
  Cerro Gordo, Floyd now see,
Chickasaw   say, Fayette, Bremer, Butler, Franklin, next upon 
    the map we see.
Wright and Humboldt, Pocahontas, Buena Vista, Cherokee,
Ida, Sac, Calhoun and Webster, Hamilton with name so rare.
Next is Hardin, Grundy, Black Hawk, Buchanan, Delaware.
Jones, Linn, Benton, Tama, Marshall, Story, Crawford, 
    Carroll, Boone,
Let us not your patience weary, we will have them 
    all told soon.
Cedar, Greene, Johnson, Iowa, and Poweshiek by the same,
Next is Jasper, Polk and Dallas, names of presidential fame.
Guthrie, Audubon, and Shelby, Cass, Madison and Adair,
Warren, Marion, Mahaska and Keokuk is there.
Henry, Jefferson, Wapello, Monroe, but Washington 
    we missed.
Lucas, Union, Clarke and Adams, and Montgomery fills the list.

Friday, June 11, 2010

A Black Utopia in the Heartland -- A Good Read!

Buxton - A Black Utopia in the Heartland
by Dorothy Schwieder, Joseph Hraba 
and Elmer Schwieder
[Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2003]
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  From 1900 to the early 1920s, an unusual community existed in America's heartland: Buxton, Iowa, established by the Consolidated Coal Company. The majority of Buxton's five thousand residents were African Americans--a highly unusual racial composition for a state which was over 90 percent white. At a time when both southern and northern blacks were disadvantaged and oppressed, blacks in Buxton enjoyed true racial integration--steady employment, above-average wages, decent housing, and minimal discrimination. For such reasons, Buxton was commonly known as "the black man's utopia in Iowa."  Now, eighty years after the town's demise, this truly interdisciplinary history of a unique Iowa community remains a compelling story. 
  "This interdisciplinary study combines documentary materials with oral history to provide a vivid descriptive picture of Buxton ... The authors have provided an excellent work demonstrating the use of documentary evidence and personal interviews to reconstruct a picture of a community of the past ... of considerable value, particulary, for the areas of race relations and community studies."
  --Contemporary Sociology

  Dorothy Schwieder is professor emerita of history at Iowa State University and the author of, among many other books, Growing Up with the Town: Family and Community on the Great Plains (Iowa 2002), Iowa: The Middle Land, and Black Diamonds: Life and Work in Iowa's Coal-Mining Communities. Joseph Hraba is professor of sociology at Iowa State University, and Elmer Schwieder is professor emeritus of family environment at Iowa State University.
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Transcribed from the back cover of 
Buxton - A Black Utopia in the Heartland

The Only Dance in Iowa -- A Good Read!

The Only Dance in Iowa
A History of Six-Player Girls' Basketball
by Max McElwain
[Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2004]
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  Iowa six-player girls' basketball was the most successful sporting activity for girls in American history, at its zenith involving more than 70 percent of the girls in the state. The state tournament was so popular--regularly drawing fifteen thousand fans, more than the boys' tourney--that officials declined a lucrative broadcasting offer from ABC's Wide World of Sports rather than forfeit the Iowa Girls' High School Athletic Union's control of the game. The Only Dance in Iowa chronicles the one-hundred-year history of this Iowa tradition, long a symbol of the state's independence and the people's rural pride. Max McElwain shows how, well before the passage of Title IX, in 1972, Iowa six-player girls' basketball was, as Sports Illustrated gushed, "a utopia for girls' athletics." He also demonstrates how, ironically enough, the fallout from Title IX in many ways let to six-girl basketball's demise.
  Through interviews, careful ethnography, and detailed historical analysis, McElwain exposes the intricate political, sociological, and historical dynamics of this cultural phenomenon. His book reveals how six-girl basketball, flourishing with the passionate support of Iowa's small towns, school districts, and media, came to represent the state's strong traditional beliefs and the public school system's determination to maintain its identity in the face of national educational trends. The Only Dance in Iowa is as much a study of this disappearing culture as of the game it claimed as its own.
  Max McElwain, an assistant professor of communication arts at Wayne State College, is a former sportswriter for several Midwestern newspapers.
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Transcribed from the back cover of The Only Dance in Iowa.

Love amid the Turmoil -- A Good Read!

Love amid the Turmoil
The Civil War Letters of William and Mary Vermilion
Edited by Donald C. Elder III
[Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2003]
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  William Vermilion (1830-1894) served as a captain in Company F of the 36th Iowa Infantry from October 1862 until September 1865. Although he was a physician in south central Iowa [in Iconium, Appanoose County] at the start of the war, after it ended he became a noted lawyer; he was also a state senator from 1869 to 1872. Mary Vermilion (1831-1883) was a schoolteacher who grew up in Indiana; she and William married in 1858. In this volume historian Donald Elder provides a careful selection from the hundred of supportive, informative, and heart-warming letters they wrote each other during the war.  
  Donald Elder is professor of history and chair of the department at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales.

  "What a find! This remarkable cache of Civil War letters reveals a companionate marriage of two literate, caring individuals who explore the meaning of their love and the meaning of the war that has separated them. Well illustrated and well documented, the book's pages take the reader from honesty and sensitivity to disappointment and despair. Elder proves that historical documents can be more compelling than fiction."
  --Glenda Riley, Alexander M. Bracken Professor, Ball State University

  "[These letters] make up the most complete husband-wife collection from the Civil War--most wives' letters were lost in the course of marches and battles."
  --Washington Post Magazine 
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  The above material appears on the back cover of Love amid the Turmoil.

Lights in the Old Farmhouse's Photostream

Lights in the Old Farmhouse's
Photostream on Flickr
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  This morning I came across Lights in the Old Farmhouse's Photostream on Flickr with many enjoyable and beautiful pictures of southern Iowa.  You should take a look and enjoy!

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Out Here on Soap Creek -- A Good Read!

  I am reading Out Here on Soap Creek by Inez McAlister Faber (1897-1994) [Ames, IA: The Iowa State University Press, 1982].  Anyone interested in life in rural southern Iowa would enjoy this autobiography by a former Appanoose County resident.
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"Home is here on the farm with my memories."
--Inez McAlister Faber
  In 1927, Inez Faber began writing under the pen name Elizabeth Beresford. A few years later she dropped the pen name but continued to write, and for the next 25 years she wrote "A Farm Woman Speaks Up" for the Des Moines Register and Tribune and "Out Here on Soap Creek" for the Centerville Iowegian.
  This book gathers together some of Faber's columns, sprinkles them with a narrative account of her life in rural Iowa, and treats the reader to rich memories of the rural Midwest.
  Out Here on Soap Creek covers the weather, the Iowa landscape, the kind of farming practiced, the crops, the people, the animals, and the style of life in rural Iowa during the second quarter of this century. The columns tell of life on the farm, Inez and Dick's four sons, their pets, the livestock, Inez's parents and their pioneer ancestors, childhood memories and playmates, the sandpile and swing, the maple trees Inez loves, and the thrill and hard work involved in building their own home. Many of the columns included in this book involve members of Faber's family, close neighbors and friends.
  Out Here on Soap Creek is a reflection of Inez Faber's life and through these columns you will learn that her life has always been interesting. She makes these years come alive in this captivating memoir of growing into adulthood in the early part of the century.
  This book offers a chronological picture of Iowa farm life from the perspective of the woman of the family. The stories are sometimes serious, sometimes hilarious, but always touching. The experiences related are common to farm women of that ear in every part of the country.
--From the 1982 cover of Out Here on Soap Creek

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Christmas Tree, Decorations Adorn Library

Daily Iowegian - 3 December 2009
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Christmas Tree, Decorations
Adorn Drake Public Library
  Three Friends of the Drake Public Library, with a little help from two high school students, pose around the Christmas tree they had just finished decorating Tuesday afternoon at the Drake Public Library. From left are Sue Sacco, of Centerville, Alexis Valentine, 16, of Jerome, Sara Runyan, 15, of Centerville, Cindy Burnside, of Moravia, Colene Chebuhar, of Centerville and Debbie Robinson, of Centerville. Chebuhar said the Friends of the Drake Public Library will be at Dannco Dec. 12 from 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. wrapping Christmas presents.
Photo by Michael Schaffer/Daily Iowegian

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Death, Burial, Obituary & Probate Records

Death Records


Burial Records


 Obituary Records
Probate Records

Church Records and Histories


  • Bethany Church (Centerville, Iowa).  Church Records, 1867-1990.  FHL US/CAN Film #1686222, Item 1. [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990] Contains record of ministers, 1867-1959; elders, 1932-1957; deacons, 1912-1947; trustees, 1925-1953; members, 1918-1990.
  • Cathcart, Mildred, Catherine Mallett and Helen McElvain.  "Jerome Methodist Church has proud history; church organized in 1855, dedicated in 1871," Ad-Express/Iowegian Annual Progress Edition, 21 February 1997.  Online @ The Jerome Journal.
  • Christian Church (Numa, Iowa).  Church Records, 1895-1949.  FHL US/CAN Film #1686222, Item #7. [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990] Contains minutes, 1897-1917; financial records, 1896-1909; members, 1895-1949; officers, 1906-1909.
  • Church of Christ (Centerville, Iowa).  Church Records, 1867-1977.  FHL US/CAN Film #1686221.  [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990]  Contains alphabetical register; church record, 1867-1914; financial records, 1872-1908; marriages, 1873-1907; constitution; by-laws; deacons, 1901-1909; pastors, 1890-1911; clerks, 1867-1921; members, 1876-1965; baptisms, 1941-1977.
  • Church of Christ at Exline, Iowa (Appanoose County, Iowa).  Church Records, 1881-1985.  FHL US/CAN Film #1703827, Items #5-7. [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990]  Includes minutes, 1881-1975; members, 1886-1989; clerks, 1950-1975; deacons, 1951-1974; ministers, 1952-1969; baptisms, 1950-1971; financial records, 1954-1957. 
  • Cincinnati Methodist Church (Appanoose County, Iowa).  Church Records, 1851-1987.  FHL US/CAN Film #1703825, Item #5.  [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990]  Includes partial history; baptisms, 1955-1987; members, 1951-1987; marriages, 1966-1981.
  • Exline United Methodist Church (Appanoose County, Iowa).  Church Records, 1909-1985.  FHL US/CAN Film #1703825, Item #3.  [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990]  Includes baptisms, 1934-1952; members, 1909-1985.
  • Felkner, Myrtle E.  "History of the Churches of Appanoose County 1913-1985," in Appanoose County, Iowa [Centerville, IA: Appanoose County Historical Society, 1986], pp. 81-88.
  • Felkner, Myrtle E.  "The Story of Faith United Parish" on The Jerome Journal - posted 10 April 2010. 
  • First Evangelical Lutheran Church (Centerville, Iowa).  Church Records, 1879-1955.  FHL US/CAN Film #1686223, Item #8; FHL US/CAN Film #1686224, Items #1-2.  Includes indexes.
  • First Presbyterian Church (Centerville, Iowa).  Church Records, 1851-1942.  FHL US/CAN Film #1007191, Items #1-4.  [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1976] Contains session minutes, 1851-1924; -- lists of members and officers; communicants; baptisms, 1851-1942; deaths, 1876-1941.
  • First Presbyterian Church of Moulton (Appanoose County, Iowa).  Church Records, 1870-1939.  FHL US/CAN Film #1703826, Items #6-7.  [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990]  Includes incorporation papers; minutes, 1870-1939; subscriptions, 1886.
  • Franklin Baptist Church (Livingston, Iowa).  Church Records, 1862-1986. FHL US/CAN Film #1703823.  [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990]  Includes covenant, 1862; articles of faith; members, 1862-1986; minutes, 1864-1967.
  • Hatfield, Clara. "Seven Generations Have Worshipped in Franklin Church--Now 100 Years Old," The Seymour Herald, 12 April 1962. Franklin Baptist Church, Franklin Township, Appanoose County, Iowa. Online @ The Jerome Journal
  • Hardman, Irene A. and Union Presbyterian Church (Unionville, Iowa). Records of Union Presbyterian Church, 1849-1898, Unionville, Appanoose County, Iowa. [Rockville, Maryland: I. A. Hardman, 1991] FHL US/CAN Book: 977.789/U1 K2h.
  • Hardman, Irene A.  A Transcript and Index to the Records of Union Presbytern Church, 1849-1898, Unionville, Udell Township, Appanoose County, Iowa. Manuscript, Typed transcript of the original records. [Rockville, MD: I. A. Hardman, 1991] 20 pages.  Includes minutes, 1849-1893; members, 1862-1898; baptisms, 1897.  FHL US/CAN Large Q Book - 977.789/U1K2u.
  • Hazelcreek Association of Regular Predestinarian Baptist Church (Schulyer County, Missouri) and Providence Church (Appanoose County, Iowa). Church Records, 1854-1882.  FHL US/CAN Film #1686224, Item 9. [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990]  Contains constitution, rules, minutes for 1854-1882. The Hazelcreek Association of the Regular Predestinarian Baptist Church of Schulyer County, Missouri, held joint meetings with the Providence Church in Appanoose County, Iowa.
  • Hilltown Christian Church and Church of Christ (Appanoose County, Iowa). Church Records, 1891-1981.  FHL US/CAN Film #1686225, Item #8.  [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990] Includes covenant, 1891; members, 1893-1981; contributions, 1893-1957; minutes, 1931-1957.
  • Jerome United Methodist Church (Appanoose County, Iowa).  Church Records, 1905-1954.  FHL US/CAN Film #1703825, Item #6. [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990]  Includes pastoral and statistical record, 1907-1910; members, 1909-1954; probations, 1905-1932; baptisms, 1909-1954; marriages, 1905-1916.
  • Jordan, Lena, and Vera Shivvers.  History of the Fairview Church, 1891-1960 [Iowa: Fairview Christian Church, 1976]  44 pages.  Also, Appanoose County, Iowa, Fairview Church (A History of) [Des Moines, IA: Iowa American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, 1976?]
  • Little Flock Baptist Church (Johns Township, Appanoose County, Iowa). "Brief History of the Little Flock Baptist Church," Wayne County (Iowa) Genie News, Volume 28, No. 1 (April 2006).  Online @ The Jerome Journal.
  • Little Flock Baptist Church (Johns Township, Appanoose County, Iowa). "Dedication of the Little Flock Baptist Church" from the Centerville Daily Iowegian & Citizen, 16 January 1917 and 25 January 1917 (page 67); "The History of the Little Flock Baptist Church, Plano, Iowa," by Mrs. Bessie Fenton (pages 126-128); and "The Building of the New Little Flock Baptist Church, Plano, Iowa," from records provided by Dwight Gorden (pages 120-125) in Willis & Richard Gorden's A Step Back in Time - Plano, Iowa [Plano, IA: Willis & Richard Gorden, 1998].
  • Methodist Episcopal Church (Centerville, Iowa).  Church Records, 1855-1922.  FHL US/CAN Film #1703824, Items #1-6.  [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990]  Includes historical record, 1855-1868; class records, 1867-1876; probationers' records, 1866-1916; members, 1866-1929; marriages, 1867-1922; baptisms, 1866-1922; contributions, 1876; articles of incorporation; officers, 1866-1876; statistics, 1892-1900; pastors, 1855-1889; funerals, 1916.
  • Methodist Episcopal Church (Moulton, Iowa).  Church Records, 1869-1987.  FHL US/CAN Film #1686224, Items #11-12:  Historical records, 1869-1968; probationers, 1885-1907; members, 1878-1907; baptisms, 1885-1906, marriages, 1885-1906; pastors, 1885-1938; classes.  FHL US/CAN Film #1686225, Items #1-2: members, 1890-1987; baptism, 1925-1967. [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990]
  • Methodist Episcopal Church, Springville Circuit (Appanoose County, Iowa). FHL US/CAN Film #1686224, Item #13. [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990] Contains minutes, 1856-1885.
  • Methodist Episcopal Church (Unionville, Iowa). Church Records, 1850-1988. FHL US/CAN Film #1686224, Items #3, 4, 6, & 7. [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990] Contains members, 1850-1988; Sunday School records, 1871-1886; statistical records, 1871-1888; baptisms, 1872-1984; marriages, 1871-1903; historical record; pastoral and statistical, 1889-1903; probationers, 1889-1903.
  • Methodist Episcopal Church, Unionville Circuit (Iowa). Church Records, 1875-1887. FHL US/CAN Film #1686224, Item #5. [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990] Contains financial records; conference records, 1875-1887; minutes, 1880-1887.
  • Moulton Methodist Church (Moulton, Iowa).  Church Records, 1945-1957. FHL US/CAN Film #1686225, Item #3.  [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990]  Microfilm of manuscripts filmed in Mystic, Iowa.
  • Mt. Ararat Baptist Church (Appanoose County, Iowa). Church Records, 1850-1985.  FHL US/CAN Film #1686220. [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990] Includes articles of faith; covenant; members, 1873-1978; baptisms, 1899-1953; minutes, 1850-1985.
  • Mystic Methodist Episcopal Church (Appanoose County, Iowa). Church Records, 1880-1973. [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990] FHL US/CAN Film #1703824, Items #7-9: pastors, 1886-1926; members, 1888-1933; probationers, 1880-1920; marriages, 1889-1923; baptisms, 1890-1949; funerals, 1919-1921.  FHL US/CAN Film #1703825, Items #1-2: baptisms, 1927-1971; members, 1894-1971; marriages, 1939-1973; pastors, 1886-1973.
  • North Bend Congregation (Appanoose County, Iowa). Church Records, 1886-1988. FHL US/CAN Film #1686225, Items #6-7. [Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990] Includes minutes, 1886-1972; members, 1886-1988; constitution.
  • Numa United Methodist Church (Appanoose County, Iowa). Church Records, 1905-1989. FHL US/CAN Film #1703825, Item #4. [Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990] Includes pastors, 1949-1989; correspondence; baptisms, 1936-1966; members, 1905-1989.
  • Peterson, Robert L. History of the Brethren Movement.  Online @ Emmaus Bible College.
  • Philadelphia Church of Christ (Appanoose County, Iowa). Church Records, 1866-1901. FHL US/CAN Film #1686224, Item #10. [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990] Contains members, 1874-1901; minutes, 1866-1901.
  • Plano Christian Church (Appanoose County, Iowa). Church Records, 1917-1983. FHL US/CAN Film #1703827, Item #11. [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990] Includes members, 1917-1983.
  • Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Centerville Branch (Centerville, Iowa). Church Records, 1873-1919. FHL US/CAN Film #1941156, Item #2. [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1994] Microreproduction of originals housed in the RLDS Library Archives, Independence, Missouri.
  • Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Centerville Branch (Appanoose County, Iowa).  Church Records, 1948-1987.  FHL US/CAN Film #1703827, Items 8-9. [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990]  Includes history of the Centerville Branch by Avis Medland; History of the Centerville Branch as of October 31, 1948; Report of Centerville Branch, 1952-1987; newspaper clippings; membership list, 1977.
  • Rodabaugh, Willis P. and A. H. Brower. A History of the Church of the Brethren in Southern Iowa [Elgin, IL: Brethren Publishing House, 1924] 323 pages.  Also, see: Lela Eby's Every Name Index: A History of the Church of the Brethren in Southern Iowa, by Willis P. Rodabaugh and A. H. Brower [Mill Valley, CA: Eby, 1976?].
  • Sidles, Susie R. "Methodist Church Observes 100th Year," The Seymour Herald, 22 December 1955.  Brief history of the Jerome Methodist Church. Online @ The Jerome Journal.  Also, see "Methodists Celebrate Centennial," The Seymour Herald, 22 September 1955. Online @ The Jerome Journal
  • St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Trenton, Missouri).  Church Records, 1870-1966.  FHL US/CAN Film #980544, Item #2.  [S.I., s.n., 196?] Text in Latin and English. Indexes at beginning of volumes. Includes records, ca. 1870-1900, from missions in counties of Mercer, Grundy, Daviess, Harrison, Livingston, Putnam, Sullivan in Missouri and Appanoose County in Iowa. Contains baptisms, marriages, deaths, first communions, confirmations.
  • St. Mary's Catholic Church (Centerville, Iowa).  Church Records, 1882-1968.  FHL US/CAN Film #1686223, Items #1-7.  [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990] Some records in Latin. Contains baptisms, 1882-1933; marriages, 1910-1954; interments, 1913-1968. Includes indexes. 
  • Swedish Evangelical Congregational Church (Centerville, Iowa). Church Records, 1867-1990.  FHL US/CAN Film #1686222, Items #2-6. [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990] Contains financial records, 1880-1881; minutes, 1882-1941; constitution; articles of faith; members, 1905-1990; record of church festivals; pastors, 1867-1982; sextons; superintendants; treasurers; secretaries; trustees; organists; deacons; accessions, 1940-1972; baptisms, 1872-1985; confirmations, 1942-1984; funerals, 1940-1990; marriages, 1941-1988.
  • Walnut City Church of Christ (Appanoose County, Iowa). Church Records, 1858-1983.  FHL US/CAN Film #1703825, Items 8-9. [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990] Includes church record, 1858-1898; church register, 1880-1930; members, 1933-1983.
  • Wesley Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church (Appanoose County, Iowa). Centennial Celebration, June 29, 1958, Wesley Chapel M. E. Church. FHL US/CAN Film #1686225, Item #4. [Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990]