History and Genealogy of Jasper County Iowa
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Cities and Towns Baxter -- Clyde -- Coal Siding (historical) Colfax -- Galesburg -- Goddard -- Green Castle Ira -- Kellogg -- Killduff -- Lambs Grove Lynnville -- Metz -- Mingo -- Monroe -- Murphy Newburg -- Newton -- Oakland Acres Oswalt -- Prairie City -- Prairiebell -- Reasnor Rushville -- Severs -- Sully -- Turner (historical) -- Valeria -- Vandalia -- Wilson (historical)  LOOKUP VOLUNTEER! and would be glad to try to help anyone researching this area with genealogical info that I have here with in my home. I have access to old obituaries, my mom's prize possession is old Colfax newspapers dating back into the late 1880's to 1956. My mother was involved with the state and county genealogical societies and everytime she helped someone she kept a copy of the info. we say that she has over 1000 notebooks on different Jasper county families Nora gmaszoo@iowatelecom.net		County Information It was organized from Mahaska County in 1846 and is named after Sergeant William Jasper, Revolutionary War hero. The county seat is Newton.
ONLINE DATA Births Biographies Schools Census Data Marriages Cemeteries Newspapers History Obituaries Military Data Website updates: 12 Feb 2008: ANDERSON, BORTS, YORK, KINTS, ARNOLD obits; KINTZ family bios 24 Jan 2008: Obits for BLOSSER, HILL, MCCALMONT, NICHOLSON, TREASE 20 Jan 2008: Marriages; Obits for EARP, MCKNIGHT, PRICE, SMITH, VAUGHN; list of cemeteries Biographies, Prairie High School Classes		We'll be adding data to this site as we can. You can help us to get this site growing by sending in your family's data. Subscribe to our mailing lists to get notification when we update this and our other midwestern websites.
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