Burlington Iowa

I have been doing a lot of family history research since we have been here and Burlington, Iowa is a place where many of  my Grandma Crocker 's family lived.  Grandma (Jeannette Pauline Huss) was born in Burlington and it is less than 30 miles from Nauvoo.  We had to go!  

   From census records I found addresses of where family lived. One family home is now a parking lot, another is an apartment complex.  But here is the house where grandma's father grew up. 

 

And here is the Catholic Church where many family weddings, funerals, baby baptisms and Sunday worship took place.  It is only a few blocks away from the house we found.

 

 

We also found the cemetery where many ancestors are buried.  We were not able to find any family graves though.

 

 

I wish we could have found more, but it was awesome to see where some of our ancestors lived.  Grandma Crocker' father was a tinner in a stove store in Burlington .  (I think that would be a tinsmith.)  She and her parents lived one block down from her grandparents.