Day 50 - Eagle Grove, Iowa

We spent a very pleasant day doing something we have done a lot of -- tromping through old cemeteries looking for ancestor headstones. In addition to that, we roamed around the beautiful countryside near Eagle Grove, Iowa, looking for the farmsteads that Gary's great grandparents (several sets) owned in past years. We also walked around charming Eagle Grove and went to the Wright County Fair currently running at the fairgrounds. It was a perfect day for weather, and we found almost everything we were looking for.

I took a large number of photos, too numerous to post here, but the one of the barn probably built by Gary's great grandfather is one I will post, and also the one of Gary in a pose near this barn mimicking the pose his grandfather had when photographed as a boy, holding his recently caught fish.

I will also post a photo of the main street in downtown Eagle Grove - a thriving town of about 4,000, bustling with farm product activity, on a major rail line with lovely residential areas. The photos of the headstones we found will reside on a different Web site at a later date. We were highly successful, thanks to the wonderful genealogy research of Betty McMurry, Gary's cousin, previously pictured here.