Floyd County IA Archives History .....Description Of Burial Of Mrs. Fleming Dewitt, 1854 
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...No lumber for a coffin was to be had nearer than Cedar Falls or Cedar 
Rapids, so the wagon box in which he (Fleming Dewitt) moved to this new and 
wild country in, was taken apart and a rude coffin made of the boards, and his 
tried and ture companion laid away to rest 'mid the wild woods on the banks of 
Lime Creek.  There was something unusually sad in a scene like this. Such an 
event is hard enough when surrounded by sympathizing friends, but doubly hard 
to bear in a wild and unsettled country like this, to when one's last friend 
is striken down and taken away.

Additional Comments:
Could be the first death in Rockford, Iowa.  From Vala, Michael F. The Story 
of Rockford, 19.  M.F. Vala Publishing, Dubuque, IA. 1970.
ORIGINAL CITATION: Cataloged notes from teh recollections and pivate 
memorabilia of Floy (Wyatt) Michell, Item 287.

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