Adair County Iowa
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| Adair County Iowa |
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Date | Description |
| October, 2024 | I have updated the Liberty Cemetery. |
| October, 2024 | I have added a complete collection of all of the depots in Adair County. |
| April 7, 2024 | I have added a photo for the Washington rural school from 1933. |
| April 4, 2024 | I have added two directories from the A.T. Adreas Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa. |
| January, 2024 | I have added 2 photos of Orient School 1935. |
| October, 2023 | I have added 3 commencement classes from Union Township. |
| October, 2023 | I am continuing to transcribe the bios of History of Adair County 1915. |
| April, 2023 | I have added 17 biographies from the History of Adair County 1915 |
| April , 2023 | I have added Iowa vetereran cemetery that is located in Dallas County |
| October, 2022 | I have added 27 biographies from the History of Adair County 1915 |
| April, 2022 | Complete births from 1909 to 2022 have been added. |
| October 2021 | I am continuing to transcribe the bios of History of Adair County 1915. |
| April, 2021 | A complete supplement for Defective, Dependency and Delinquent classes of the 1880 census has been added. |
| April, 2021 | Complete report of Iowa Population has been uploaded. |
| April, 2021 | I am continuing to transcribe the bios of History of Adair County 1915 |
| October, 2020 | World War Veterans from the memorial on Main Street of Adair. |
| October, 2020 | World War 1 Veterans of Adair are on the site. |
| October, 2020 | I have partially transcribed the bios of History of Adair county, 1915 |
| October, 2020 | New obits, documents and bios have been added to the message boards. |
| October, 2020 | A partial transcription of John Handley's 1873 Diary has been completed. |
| October, 2019 | New obits, documents and bios have been added to the message boards. |
| October, 2019 | I have posted a complete listing of History of Adair County, 1915 Index of bios. of men. |
| October, 2019 | I have posted a complete listing of the History of Adair County, 1915 Index of bios. of maiden names. |
| October, 2019 | I have posted a complete transcription of the township schools in Adair county. |
| April, 2019 | I have posted new biographies in the biography section of the Message boards. They are also listed on the website in a list of biographies |
| April, 2019 | I have added a complete transcription of the Population of Adair County townships from 1850, 1870,1880 |
| April, 2019 | I added a complete transcription of a 1902 dairy of John Handley |
| September 6, 2018 | I have added a complete transcription of the History of National, State, and County Representation |
| September 6, 2018 | I have added a complete transcription of the History of the Adair County Government |
| September 6, 2018 | I have added a mystery photo that the donor would really like it to be identified. Please take a look. |
| September 6, 2018 | i have added a very interesting biograhy of Hannah Herietta (Thacher) Armstrong who taught in the Orient community many years ago. It also includes some interesting history of the area. |
| April 2018 | I have discovered a link to go to Stuart's newspaper. It is free and well worth your while to check on it. I found several items from my family that I didn't know before. It seems to cover news from the northeast part of Adair County. |
| April 2018 | I have added a page for the Korean War Casualties of Adair County. |
| April 2018 | I have added a page that lists the Century Farms in Adair County. |
| April 2018 | I have added a full transcription of the Eureka Cemetery. |
| April 2018 | I have added a partial transcription of the Roberts Cemetery. |
| September 2017 | I have added a transcription of the Cears Cemetery. |
| September 2017 | I have added a transcription of the Avondale Cemetery. |
| April 2017 | A biography of Howard J. Benton is available. |
| April 2017 | I have added a transcription of the Residents of Grove Township. |
| April 2017 | A biography of Elmer Jess Oshel is available. |
| April 2017 | The transcription of Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery is on line. |
| March 2017 | A biography of Robert Murphy is available. |
| March 2017 | A biography of Sion Murphy is available. |
| March 2017 | A biography of James Murphy is available. |
| Sept 2016 | The 1892 Farmer's Directory is available. |
| Sept 2016 | I have added Post Office History. |
| March 2016 | I have added three Civil War letters at this link. |
| March 2016 | I added 2 pages of Patrons from the Andres Historical Atlas of 1875. Here is the link. |
| October 2015 | Search tips for the Message Boards provided by Sharyl Ferrall. Here is the link. |
| September 2015 | I have started researching cities and towns of Adair County. The first one to be posted is the town of Berea. Here is the link. |
| September 2015 | Prussia Township part 1 bios of residents. Here is the link. |
| September 2015 | Prussia Township part 2 bios of residents. Here is the link. |
| April 2015 | Mary Cochrane, a volunteer to our site, has trancribed 1976 Eureka Township part 1 bios of residents. Here is the link. |
| April 2015 | Mary Cochrane, a volunteer to our site, has trancribed 1976 Eureka Township part 2 bios of residents. Here is the link. |
| April 2015 | I have added a link to a PDF of the Greenfield cemetery. It includes 5540 names, birth and death dates, age at death, place and cause of death, veterans and informant name. |
| September 2014 | Mary Cochrane, a volunteer to our site, has transcribed 1976 Walnut Township part 1 list of residants. Here is the link. |
| September 2014 | Mary Cochrane, a volunteer to our site, has transcribed 1976 Walnut Township part 2 list of residants. Here is the link. |
| September 2014 | Mary Cochrane, a volunteer to our site, has transcribed 1976 Summit Township list of residants. Here is the link. |
| September 2014 | Mary Cochrane, a volunteer to our site, has transcribed 1976 Jefferson Township biographies part 2. Here is the link. |
| September 2014 | Our volunteer has transcribed 7 new Biographies. Here is a link to them. |
| September 2014 | Volunteers have transcribed 10 new obituaries. Here is the link to them. |
| June 2014 | Mary Cochrane, a volunteer to our site, has transcribed 1976 Jefferson Township biographies. Here is the link. |
| April 2014 | Mary Cochrane, a volunteer to our site, has transcribed 1976 Jefferson Township schools. Here is the link. |
| April 2014 | Mary Cochrane, a volunteer to our site, has transcribed 1976 Lincoln Township schools. Here is the link. |
| April 2014 | Mary Cochrane, a volunteer to our site, has transcribed 1976 Lincoln Township biographies. Here is the link. |
| April 2014 | My new volunteer, Peggy has loaded 47 new obituaries. Here is a link to them. |
| April 2014 | My new volunteer, Peggy has loaded 49 new Biographies. Here is a link to them. |
| April 2014 | Mary Cochrane, a volunteer to our site, has transcribed 1976 South Stuart biographies. Here is the link. |
| April 2014 | I added a bio of Ed Sidey. Here is the link. |
| November 2013 | I added a photo of Skunk Hollow School children. Here is the link. |
| April, 2013 | I have completed the 1880 census to Orient Township. Please follow this link to view it. |
| March, 2013 | I added a cemetery location page. Please follow this link to view it. |
| March, 2013 | I have added links to World War I, World War II, and the Korean War.Please follow this link to view them. |
| October, 2012 | I have completed the 1880 census to the city of South Casey. Please follow this link to view. |
| September, 2012 | I have completed the 1880 census to the city of Fontanelle. Please follow this link to view it. |
| April, 2012 | A link to the 1940 census has been added. This is unindexed. |
| March, 2012 | I have completed the 1880 census of Greenfield Villiage. Please follow this link to the index page for Adair Village and Greenfield Village. |
| March, 2012 | There is a new book in look ups. It is A History of Richland Township Consolidated School 1921-1960. |
| October, 2011 | The history of Union Township is now on the website. Here you will find names and short bios of early settlers to this township. |
| October, 2011 | The history of Grand River Township is now on the website. Here you will find names and short bios of early settlers to this township. |
| September, 2011 | The history of Jefferson Township is now on the website. Here you will find names and short bios of early settlers to this township. |
| September, 2011 | The history of Harrison Township is now on the website. Here you will find names and short bios of early settlers to this township. |
| September, 2011 | The history of Walnut Township is now on the website. Here you will find names and short bios of early settlers to this township.Walnut Township History |
| September, 2011 | The history of Summit Township is now on the website. Here you will find names and short bios of early settlers to this township. |
| February, 2011 | Adair County History 1875 |
| February, 2011 | Adair County Boys in the Spanish-American War. Includes a photo of soldiers |
| February, 2011 | Have you ever wondered what life was like for your ancestors? Life in the 1880's is now on line. Enjoy! |
| February, 2011 | Civil War Veterans buried in the Greenfield Cemetery is now on line. Go to this link to view it. |
| February, 2011 | Early County Officials is now on line. Go to this link to view it. |
| February, 2011 | Danish Immigration to Adair County is now on line. Go to this link to view it. |
| October, 2010 | The Adair village 1880 census is now on line. Search it by using the search on the home page or browse it by going to this link. |
| October, 2010 | Added a link to Iowa in the Great War. |
| October, 2010 | I have added a database for all of the gravestones that have been photographed in Adair County. Search the database by using the search on the home page or browse the database by going to this link. |
| September, 2010 | I added a database of all of the gravestone listings for the WPA transcriptions. You will now be able to search the database by using the search on the home page or browse the WPA transcription by going to this link. |
| June 2010 | Several volunteers from Madison County have completed taking photos of Roberts Cemetery. (Roberts is located near Madison and many ancestors of that county are buried in Roberts.) |
| June, 2010 | Our volunteer Cindy, has compeleted taking photos Avondale Cemetery. |
| May, 2010 | Our volunteer Cindy, has compeleted taking photos of the following cemeteries: Campbell, and St. Mary |
| April, 2010 | Our volunteer Cindy, has compeleted taking photos of the following cemeteries: Cutler, Jefferson, Loucks Grove, and St. Joeseph. |
| March, 2010 | Our new volunteer, Pat, has finished transcribing Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Thank you Pat! |
| March, 2010 | The history of Washington Township is now on the website. Here you will find names and short bios of early settlers to this township. |
| February, 2010 | The history of Jackson Township is now on line. Here you will find names and short bios of early settlers to this township. |
| February, 2010 | The history of Greenfield Township and City is now on line. This is a large Township containing the county seat and much of the early history of Adair County. Names and bios of early settlers and political leaders are to found here. |
| November, 2009 | Grove Center Cemetery is now on line. View the names here. Grove Center Cemetery |
| October, 2009 | Five histories of Townships in Adair County have been added to the website.(Note, all of the township histories are now on line as of October 2011.) |
| July, 2009 | Adair County now has 6187 gravestones on line. |
| June, 2009 | Our volunteer, Cindy, has now finished Avondale Cemetery and Eureka Cemetery. She has added a few to the Adair County Cemetery page. Thank you, Cindy! |
| May, 2009 | Our volunteer, Cindy, has finished the Fontanelle Cemetery. It contains 2,951 gravestones. What a job! Thank you Cindy! |
| April, 2009 | We have added over 2200 gravestone photos in the last 6 months. There are 4 completed cemeteries and several more being worked on. I continue to answer questions, update the surnames as they come in, add photographs and various other jobs as they come to my attention. I will be traveling to Iowa in May. If there are any questions I can help with while I am there, please contact me. |
| November, 2008 | Our volunteer Cindy has photographed Witt Cemetery. Thank you Cindy! |
| October, 2008 | Cindy has photographed Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Garner Cemetery and Old Union Cemetery. Follow the links to see the photos of the stones in these cemeteries. There are almost 1000 stones in these three cemeteries! What a job! Thanks to Cindy! |
| September, 2008 | The site has a new volunteer! Her name is Cindy and she lives in Adair County. She is enthusiastic and does wonderful work! |
| June, 2008 | I have arrived back home. The weather in Iowa was not pleasant but I was able to transcribe 3 cemeteries and take photos of each stone. |
| April, 2008 | I have bought my plane ticket to Iowa and am preparing to spend 2 weeks in Adair County in May. If there is anything you would like me to look up while I am there, please email me. |
| March 8, 2008 | I am answering email questions, checking links and doing miscellaneous jobs. |
| February 7, 2008 | I am continuing to update the web site especially the History sections. |
| December, 2007 | I have finished the Canby Cemetery photos. If the one you are looking for is not there, let me know. The transcription was finished in September. |
| December, 2007 | I have taken the Thanksgiving cards down and put up Christmas cards. They randomly load as visitors go to the web site. They were all mailed to people in Adair County during the early 1900's. Here is a link to the cards and their messages. |
| November, 2007 | I have finished the transcription and the photos for the Pioneer Cemetery known as Winn Cemetery. The biography of Monroe Winn is on the website under biographies. |
| November, 2007 | I have put Thanksgiving cards on the website. They randomly load as visitors go to the website. They were all mailed to people in Adair County during the early 1900's. |
| September 10, 2007 | The transcription for the Canby Cemetery is on the website. Take a look. I have started to put the photos of the gravestones on the internet. |
| May 5, 2007 | The Cochrane family photos and documents are on the website. Take a look at the documents. Take a look at the photos. |
| April 23 , 2007 | I have added some more surnames and updated the map section to include the 1904 Township maps. |
| March 22, 2007 | I have added two bios with photos. Please take a look. |
| February 26, 2007 | Greenfield High School Graduates page is complete. Graduates from 1859 to 1920 are listed. Take a look. |
| February 19, 2007 | I am continuing to add to the education page. I have been working on Richland Township. Also, I started a page for Greenfield High School Graduates. I have completed a list of graduates from 1859 to 1900. |
| February 1, 2007 | I have added a link on the Military page to Iowa 7th Calvary information. I added Henry and Nicholas Henning's bio and added to the History of Euerka Township. |
| January 15, 2007 | Today I continued to work on the Education, History and Cemetery pages. I concentrated on Euerka Township. |
| January 14, 2007 | I have been a little lax in updating this "What's New" page. So here goes. I will list everything new since the last entry in September. New 1976 Orient Township map uploaded. History of Orient twp added. Hoffstatter biography added. Orient cemetery history added. Orient education page added. New Education page started. |
| September 13, 2006 | I have uploaded the transcriptions of the Louck's Grove cemetery. One is in alphabetical order and the other is listed by plots. |
| September 8, 2006 | I posted two photos of young Adair men from the late 1880's. Check them out here. |
| July 17, 2006 | I have returned from a trip to Adair County and am starting to post gravestones photos taken on my trip. I have uploaded Old Union and Pleasant Grove photos. Please take a look. |
| March 30, 2006 | I have completed a transcription of the Penn Ave. Cemetery. |
| March 26, 2006 | I have added a new section to the photo page. It contains mystery photos that you would like to have identified or would like to give to the proper families. |
| March 11, 2006 | I am continuing to add surnames to the list. If you haven't sent yours, consider doing it now. |
| February 14, 2006 | I have added more information concerning the townships. This was in response to a visitor's request. |
| January 29, 2006 | Good News! Our volunteers (all listed on the WPA web site) have now completed the full transcription for the Adair County WPA Project. There are now 7,467 records for Adair county online in the state-wide database. One of the great things about this site is that a visitor can search one county at a time or they can plug in a surname and search the entire state database at once, over 1/2 million names presently. It also has soundex search ability and a very popular "Post-em Note" feature which allows visitors to add to or correct the existing data and also to make themselves known to "yet to be discovered" cousins. |
| January 8, 2006 | New Photos are being added on a daily basis. Check them out. Send me yours so I can add them to the site. |
| December 30, 2005 | A new section called Biographies is now on the website. I am indexing biographies with photos and without photos. I invite you to contribute your bios and include photos if you have them. |
| December 28, 2005 | I have added new photos to the photo index. They were contributed by a visitor to the site. Thank you! |
| December 26, 2005 | I have been adding names to the surname page as they have come in. Thank you to the contributors. |
| September 16, 2005 | I have started a surname page. Please contribute the surname or names that you are researching. |
| September 8, 2005 | I have finished the transcription for Prussia Center Cemetery. |
| August 10, 2005 | I have completed the gravestone photos for Prussia Center Cemetery. There are 112. The transcription is also complete and being proof read. |
July 31, 2005 | I have added a military page. I am continuing to work on the Prussia Center Cemetery transcription. I also have more gravestone photos ready for viewing. |
| July 14, 2005 | I have added Township names to the cemetery index. |
| June 23, 2005 | I added some patriotic photos and post cards to the slide show on the home page. I thought they were appropriate for honoring Fourth of July. Click on the refresh button on your browser to cycle through the photos. |
| June 22, 2005 | The cemetery pages that I currently have photos for are on the website. I will be adding directions to each cemetery in the near future. Click here for the cemetery index. |
| June 16, 2005 | I now have photos of seven cemeteries on the web. Please visit this link to find the cemetery index. |
| May, 2005 | My daughter and I visited Adair County. We drove to the cemeteries and photographed the entrances and a representative photo or two of the cemetery. I will be putting these on the website soon. |
| April 6, 2005 | The 1904 township maps have been started. They will be accessible through the map page for the the individual townships. For instance. |
| March 26, 2005 | I have added a document page to the web site. I have put on one document to start with. If you have any documents that you would like to contribute, please email me for details. |
| March 12, 2005 | The 1875 Township maps are complete and on the website. Please visit by clicking here. |
| February 15, 2005 | I have had several requests for Township maps, so I have started to put them up on the site. I am about half done at this date. Check out the maps. |
| February 12, 2005 | In honor of Presidents Day, I added a page called Patriotism. It has photos that show how Adair county folks honored our country years ago. |
| February 5, 2005 | I added a link to Old Iowa Press This promises to be a fun project. Dig up those old newspaper articles and submit them. |
| January 29, 2005 | I have added more photos and a photo index page in order to navigate to them. |
| January 22, 2005 | I have added a "School" page with two links, a "What's New?" page, and a "Post Card" page with a link to it. |
| January 17, 2005 | I have added a photo page with three photos of early residences of Adair County contributed by Jeff Klein. |
| January 2, 2005 | I have been checking links and doing other site maintenance. I also have been checking the other Iowa GenWeb sites in order to better know my job. |
| December 25, 2004 | I received notification that I was approved to adopt this site. What a great Christmas present to myself. I am very excited about being the new coordinator! |
