Posted on 04/09/2009 5:04:30 PM PDT by slowry
My brother from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan called me, somebody he knows found a Gideon New Testament in or near a little town called Homestead in Wisconsin. (Maybe it was an entire Bible, I'm not sure.)
Written in it was "Samuel C. Peaslee, Dubuque, IA, American Expeditionary Force, France, 1918"
I have no idea if it's proper to post this here.
After my initial internet searches found that there were numerous Peaslees in Iowa, I renewed my old membership on ancestry.com to see if any descendants could be located. I did find what apparently was a father and son with that exact name in Dubuque. The father would have been about 55 in 1918, the son about 17.
But I feel like I'm stymied right now, there aren't any descendants listed. The son showed up on the 1920 census.
My brother thought it would be nice to locate a family member. Anybody have any suggestions? I had read a story this week in the NYT about restoring lost items to owners with the help of the internet. But after looking at some "lost/found" websites, none so far seem up to this task.
It happens that last year I found out that a personal Bible of JS Bach, including his written notes, was found in the 1930s in a farm outside Detroit.
Was wondering if it was a Catholic Bible?
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