Wordless Wednesday - Helen Ross

This is a portrait of my great grand aunt, Helen Ross (later Whitted). This may have been a high school or a College photo while she was attending Iowa State University around 1923.

Wordless Wednesday - Mary A Ross in California

This is a photo of my great aunt Mary Ada Ross in California during the 1930s. She was the sister of my great grandmother, Clara (Ross) Fowlie. As I mentioned before, she was an anesthesiologist and worked for many years at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles.

Wordless Wednesday - Mary Ada Ross and Mary Hay Stotler-Ross

This is a photo of Dr. Mary Ada Ross and Mary Hay Stotler-Ross in California during the 1930s. Mary (Stotler) Ross was my 2nd great grandmother, and Mary Ada Ross was her daughter.

Tombstone Tuesday - Joseph Fowlie

This is the death and burial record for my 2nd great grand uncle, Joseph Fowlie. He was the brother of my 2nd great grandfather, Alexander Brown Fowlie. The record is from Cherokee Mental Health Institute in Cherokee, Iowa.

Based on census records, Joseph must have been quite close to my 2nd great grandfather, Alexander Fowlie. At the time of the 1870 census, they were living together in Dayton Township, Cedar County, Iowa and working as farm laborers. At the time of the 1880 census, Joseph was living with the Alex and Mary Fowlie and their children in Jackson Township, Benton County, Iowa. In 1890, they were living in the vicinity of Rockwell City, Iowa and "A.B. Fowlie" (Alexander Brown Fowlie) was listed as correspondent at the time of Joseph's admission to the mental hospital at Independence, Iowa.

According to this record he died March 21, 1909 at 6:16PM from Lobar Pneumonia. He was buried at the hospital cemetery in grave #83. I am not certain what the other columns represent, one looks like age, but he was about 80, not 57. I also don't know what "No." 54 meant. So there are a few questions that remain, but this answers the question of burial.

Ben Evers with Irene Brassfield

Irene Brassfield with Ben Evers in Cherokee, Iowa

This is a photo of Ben Evers (1872-1954) with Irene Brassfield (1924-2010) in front of the Evers home in Cherokee, Iowa. Ben Evers married my 2nd great grandmother Nellie (Bates-Brassfield) Evers in 1915, years after the death of my 2nd great grandfather Elvis H. Brassfield in 1904. Ben was step-grandfather to my grandfather Elvis J. Brassfield. Irene Brassfield was the sister of Elvis J. Brassfield.