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Grandmother Waterbury Remembered Heroic Iowa Pioneer
Jane Elizabeth Brower Waterbury died at 94 in Akron Iowa after a long life of pioneer farming. Born in Bridgeport Connecticut in 1888, she and her husband Henry Waterbury settled in Norwalk and later moved west, enduring prairie hardships, Deep snow and floods, raising nine children, and a large extended family. Funeral held at First Baptist, burial Riverside. Special election called July 11 to grant Northwestern Bell Telephone rights in Akron.
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Freddy
Waterbury
Akron
Jane 1
Ehis
Citigen
Grandma Waterbury
Ig Deseryng
Ethan Allen
Jane Hlizabeth Brower
Briggeport
Connecticut
Westport
Henry Waterbury
Angonia
Bridgeport
Norwalk
Pound Ridge
N.Y
New Canaan
Seventeenth Regiment
New Carlan
Great West
Dennison
Iowa
Towa
Big Sioux Valley
Sioux Valley Township
Union County
Waterburys
Grandfather Waterbury
Sioux Jolly
Severy
Missouri
Sioux City
Bik Point
Alfred B
Prank
Robert
George W
Woodburn
Oregon
Hudson
Ss. D
Fred
First Baptist Church
A. G. Miller
Riveraide Cemetery
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Des Moines
D. G. Ross
M. W. Redmond
Northwestern Bell. Telephone Company
Yowa
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