OBITUARY: William P. Bordwell, 1803-1884, Mitchell County, Iowa Wm. P. Bordwell ST ANSGAR -- Old Mr. Bordwell died at Newburg last Sunday at the ripe old age of eight-one years. He was a native of Massachusetts, but for fifteen or twenty years has been a resident of Mitchell County, and has been widely known and well liked. [Sept. 11, 1884] Wm. P. Bordwell. Died of paralysis, September 7, at St. Ansgar township, Iowa, age eighty-one years and five months. Copyright 2005 - Marilyn Oconnor