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vuviiuugivuu* 7Tells of Early Days.In response to a few questions they told of their trip to. this the old home of Mr. Dufur and the place where he wooed and won bis wife and passed the .Jjoppy first years of his wedded life.lt;40 They asked about the Dunbars and. Ure Emerys. They wanted to know about the Wileys and the Yocums but the names of the younger members of these Ga'lva pioneer families were unfamiliar to the gentlemen, except that of Wallace Emery. Michael Emery,* now dead, had with his wife and son Wallace, visited Mr. Dufur at bis Iowa home years ago.It was in the fall of 1861 that the Iowan was united in marriage with Elizabeth Drum, a pretty young school ma’am who taught in the Dunbar school, one mile south of Galva and also kept school, as they used to phrase it, in the little red school house, now only a memory, two miles further south. Mrs. Dufur died last March at her home in Iowa, her daughter preceding her in death about two weeks, leaving Mr. Dufur to care for bis grandson, who accompanied him on hia trip to the scenes of hie youth and early manhood.They stopped only a few hours in Galva, starting on the return trip to tbeir home in Iowa Tuesday afternoon.
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Galva Weekly News
Galva, Illinois, US
Thu, Oct 28, 1915
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