Site #2 - $14. p/w (x2)
The wind was mainly on our tail today. Prior to our arrival at this campground, we stopped at a Super Walmart in Ottumwa. They sold everything including liquor. Also, we were able to get our tire replaced! Ron took the opportunity to attend a rotary luncheon.
On to the campground and a relaxing dinner!
The good news? This was a really nice campground on beautiful little pond.
The bad news? Right beside the train tracks. ugh!
Anyway, we turned on the fan and we used our ear plugs.
We spent the day at Fort Madison. The home of Ron's forefathers. We found lots of records at the local library and at the Recorder's Office. So many Vital Statistics records. We drove around the community and we took pictures of the old Kesslar and Seemann family homes and the church they would have attended. We couldn't find any records for the burials or for their graves.
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| Pa Kesslar home |
And we found remnants of the old Button Factory where Pa Kesslar worked.
We went back on Wednesday morning for further information but the fellow there wasn't able to help us with this. We spent another hour wandering through the town (and the grave yard) looking for Seemann and Kesslar graves. We learned later that there was another old graveyard in the town that we had missed.This is where they would have been buried. Anyway, we were back on the road at 10:30 am.
It was not a good travel day. There were a lot of slow downs and some missed turns. We had to turn around when we found one Highway was closed for repairs with no warnings posted. We didn't get as far as we had hoped, but we did find a nice Municipal Campground to spend the night.
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