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Permalink Reply by cndyhoughton on February 24, 2012 at 9:31am

Yeah I have a lot of this information.  Have been corresponding with Dotty for a couple of weeks.  We have the Anamosa prison records showing that he was there. I have also contacted Anamosa to see if there are other records there that they will share with me.  He was put in prison for incest.  We are trying to establish for sure which of his daughters it was and if his youngest son listed with Agnes is really the child of the incest.  George Washington Anderson's birth date make a strong case that it is him.

Permalink Reply by Eliz on February 24, 2012 at 3:12pm

wow, then I see why the papers didn't run it..even then they would(the courts) have done their best to protect the child and family...in 1886  the family probably would have had to leave the area, which for the wife and children might not have been easy $ wise

was there a birth cert for the child? have you a copy and did it have anything about parents?

It's hard to say if the records still exist for  that far back, when towns and court houses expanded often they did a clean out and just tossed /destroyed old records,as everything  was hand written and as you can imagine took up reams of space. Have you tried asking the Historical Society in that area if they  know what happened to old court records? I think I would contact them and Local Library and ask ?? about them

Permalink Reply by Eliz on February 24, 2012 at 3:18pm

I did notice poking around that some of the Court work back then was handled i Cass Co have you tried there?  Not every township had  Courts early on, many were taken to the nearest Court of Record, for Criminal trails .

a few emails to the State  Historical Records might not hurt

ARCHIVES AND RECORDS

Name Position Phone Email
Jerome Thompson Interim State Archivist 515.281.4221 Jerome.Thompson@iowa.gov
Jeffrey Dawson Archives Supervisor 515.281.7801 Jeffrey.Dawson@iowa.gov
Sharon Avery Archivist 515.281.6863 Sharon.Avery@iowa.gov
Meaghan Christensen Archivist 515.281.0310 Meaghan.Christensen@iowa.gov
Bruce Kreuger Archives Technician 515.281.4192 Bruce.Kreuger@iowa.gov
Mary Messinger Warehouse Operations Worker 515.321.0372 Mary.Messinger@iowa.gov

Permalink Reply by cndyhoughton on February 24, 2012 at 3:20pm

Yeah actually I have and I keep hitting brick walls. Everybody says someone else does it. And the birth records list Agnes Anderson as the mother of George Washington, but I wonder if they were falsified. I am hoping that Anamosa might turn something up.

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