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Everything's Relative: June 2004
6/1/2004
The lighter side of family history.

Speed Bump

I knew that my great-great-grandfather Patrick Doyle died in Tipton, Iowa, in 1873. But without going there, I was unable to locate a burial record — until a tew years ago. On a Family History Library microfilm reel, I found a 1920s Daughters of the American Revolution record of the tombstone inscriptions in St. Mary's Cemetery. Next to my great-great-grandfather's record, a note read, "Patrick Doyle is buried in driveway west of lot one." So if you visit there, please drive slowly!

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