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Aug 29, 2023

A mystery: How a gravestone from Jackson County ended up in Indianola garage

Dixie & Ross McConnell with the Moses Littlefield tombstone that they found

Dixie & Ross McConnell with the Moses Littlefield tombstone that they found while renovating a house on Jefferson Way

He was a veteran of the War of 1812 and a pioneer who came west to the Iowa Territory. He and his wife settled in newly-formed Jackson County, raised a son and farmed until he died in 1878 at age 88 and was buried in the family plot on the farm north of Andrew.

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Jim Breeden of Maquoketa, left, poses with his daughter, Vickie Anstey of Cumberland, Iowa; Vickie's daughter, Melissa Mulder of Atlantic and Melissa's 4-year-old daughter Caroline with the tombstone of their ancestor Moses Littlefield. The tombstone turned up recently in a garage in Indianola. The family members attended a program presented by Don Wentworth, Jackson County Historical Society volunteer, on the discovery of the tombstone at the May 17 "brown bag lunch" at the Clinton Engines Museum.

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