Dallas Center Iowa: Photo Views of Sarah Jennings Vinke's Home Town, Her Farm, & surrounding Land. Also Pictures Found At Dallas Center Public Library, Genealogical Society Collection.  

All Day Thurs May 19, Dallas County IA Genealogy Society Room, Roy R Estle Memorial Public Library, 1308 Walnut Street Business District, Downtown Dallas Center IA. … Nothing Exciting & No New Photos => A SUMMARY OF SECOND DAT’s Findings, From Henry Gurr’s Research Paper Notes, Dated “May 19, 2016”, Which Henry Gurr (on Aug 8 2020), Typed As Follows. ….1) Scan through book, Haskel’s History Of Perry Iowa. Mentions local in-justices, vigilante actions, & railroad history, but don’t see Sarah’s Family. ….2) Blue ”Lists Of Men Eligible For Military Service”. In The Section On Sugar Grove Township, were listed 8 Jennings, but nothing we didn’t already know. There were ~66 total Jennings men listed for Townships Near Dallas Center IA. ….3) Lorna pulls out a Gray Ring Binder ”Iowa Dallas County Births Book1 1880 -1885.” , having 5 names Jennings, but none close enough to our Sarah. ….4) Henry scans shelves and find 3 Inch Thick Black Ring Binder ”Marriages“, and in Jennings discover, page 096, Jennings, Katherine B, Edwin W. Smythe 18 Sept 1924” {{Later this Marriage Article in newspaper Dallas Center Times, was found. See ~FIFTH Photo Next Below.)) ….5) Lorna in searching the Maps Shelf, finds a whole book full of Maps => “Atlas 1875 Of Iowa.” : This is where we saw as reported in a much earlier photo ….A) Sarah's old One Room School House, and ….B) Found Confirmation of the purchases of Sarah’s Paternal Grandfather, Henry Jennings, the land ownership constituting of Sugar Grove Township sections, 28, 32, and 33 . ….6) We studied ”Hastings History OF Dallas County, Iowa. “ By Eugene N. Hastings, Published in 1937. This had discussions of three different Jennings, but none related to Our Sarah. ….7) We found ”Dallas County Records Volume ! “”1971, by Howard E. Snedden. This was a Compilation of Marriages and later in Volume, a Compilation of Sugar Grove Township Original Land Records, we assume from primary Courthouse Records. Henry’s notes at the time List 5 Marriages and List 5 Land Records, which overall duplicate (and confirm) HSG & LBG previous findings, from other source books or documents. Continued next photo. Photo File = RoyREstleMemorialLibrary1308 WalnutStreet Dallas Center IA NightIllum GoogSrchClkImages1 … Posted 22 Aug 2020. Technical Detail => Because no photo available for the above Top Headline, the Photo /\ Above /\ was substituted, since it suitably “sets stage”, for this days Field Research, at The Estle Library.


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