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JRT.TNGTON, TOWA, SATUBIIHERE AND THERE ABOUT TOWNIn a brief history of the North Sixth Street Catholic cemetery, published in this newspaper last week, appeared a paragraph quoting an inscription on a gravestone: “MaryJane Workman, Consort W. H. Pos-telwaite, died September 26, 1819.”A reader asks, how come when the cemetery was not opened until 1848', or thereabouts, that a person whodied 29 years previously, when thisregion was populated by Indians,could have found a resting place there.It really offers an interestingproblem and elderly Catholic people of Burlington, who were quizzed could offer no explanation. The Pos-tclwaite family was prominent in social and church circles here many years ago. The family built a tine residence on the southeast corner of Fourth and High streets, now the property of Mercy hospital and occupied as a nurses home. It is believed the last member of the family, a daughter named Mrs. Buford, died in Tulsa or Oklahoma City several years ago and none of the family have lived here for at least a half century. Mrs. Buford was a;generous contributor to the cemetery upkeep fund until she died.The only explanation of the tombstone inscription might lie in the I fact that Mrs. Postelwaite died in her eastern home and when the family settled here and purchased a lot in the North Sixth Stret cemeterythat her remains were brought here from their original resting place and interred with other members of the family of whom there were several,I according to other tombstone records.The inscription in question is almost obliterated but it is sufficiently decipherable that there can be no question about the date.
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Burlington Daily Hawk Eye Gazette
Burlington, Iowa, US
Sat, Jun 01, 1935
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