If a metes and bounds description for a piece of real estate indicates that the property line goes “with the meanders” of a certain stream or creek, it means that that portion of the property line is not straight but follows the waterway.
From a while back… People move–sometimes further than one really expects. Emma Cawiezell was a native of Davenport, Iowa, who went to New York City to become an actress around 1892. She died there a year later. There were no family stories about her travelling to New York City and it took me a while to find her. People sometimes leave their comfort zone searching a new career, a new life, or greener pastures? Is it possible that your relative “up and moved” in some atypical fashion? Most of the Cawiezells were farmers in rural Scott County, Iowa. I never dreamed one of them ended up in New York. I still have room in both of my group research trips this summer. Our trip does not include a […]
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