These pictures from Duane

Hi Joann and Dick,
After seeing the posting on the Blog and Gary sending me your email, I thought you may be interested to know about the other stone there. It is very hard to read and is so old, but still standing.
This is the tombstone of Catherine Brooker the wife of Jacob that came to the US. She is also buried in Fairview Cemetery north of Winterset. Her tombstone lies to the left of the big Brooker stone of John Brooker and his wife. John was her son. She and her husband lived with their daughter in old age in Granavillo, IA. The daughter and Jacob are buried there. After the death of her husband it is evident that she came south to Madison county to live with her sons family.

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Fairview Cemetary - Winterset, Iowa

Dick went to Winterset this morning. While he was there he stopped by the cemetary and took pictures of various tombstones. We are posting a few of those pictures. If you wish more, please let me know.

Dick

A chain reaction

From Clyde Brooker to his sister Gail to us!!
Thanks! It is really interesting.(referring to the ancestry post) I asked Krimhilde's brother about the area. Turns out it is a former kingdom - there were 4 or so kingdoms making up Germany before the 1st world war. If we can find out the city Jacob lived near, he will go to the town and take some pictures. It turns out he lives very close to the area. It is in South - West Germany next to France. I have access to "Ancestry dot com and so will see what I can find. If we get more information I think I can talk Sigfried into doing some research for us. He learned a lot from doing their family tree.

Krimhilde and I are headed to Lake Tahoe tomorrow for a couple of days. I just love this time of year in the mountains and so am really looking forward to it.

Thyroid

Thought this might be worth a mention. Butch, Bill and Bill's son Mark all have thyroid issues and have known it for awhile. And recently Leo found out he did as well. It is a simple test so perhaps the next time you have a blood draw it might be wise to have it tested.

Bill & Jo's view

Seems a drama unfolds regularly at Bill and Jo's place in Arkansas. A fox and a possum are having a discussion over the cuisine! Sorry it took so long to get this on here Bill.

From Twila

I have just put the Brooker family tree online. I thought maybe we could put a blurp on the blog about it?
It can be viewed at www.rootsweb.com then go under Family Trees (World Connect), Search Family Trees. You will need to scroll to the 2nd page down near the last entry. It is under Brooker, Jacob, born 1798 in Germany. This is Butch's great-great grandfather and when you go into the site you can look under the register and it is easier reading. Anyway I do hope some enjoy and I am happy for feedback on errors etc.

It has been one of the worse summers this year. 50 some days of over 100, but know you probably heard. Guess Iowa has had a great summer. Twila