Email from Joan dated May 2007
"We also visited the cemetery where James Arthur Smothers is buried near Garnavillo. He was in the old folks home when he died and there is no marker on his grave either. I have a letter from one of his granddaughters telling us about him and how mean he was. When he died he had nothing but a handkerchief that his daughter and her family had given him for Christmas. They couldn't afford anything more because they were so poor."
"We also visited the cemetery where James Arthur Smothers is buried near Garnavillo. He was in the old folks home when he died and there is no marker on his grave either. I have a letter from one of his granddaughters telling us about him and how mean he was. When he died he had nothing but a handkerchief that his daughter and her family had given him for Christmas. They couldn't afford anything more because they were so poor."
Email from Joan dated May 2007
"We also visited the cemetery where James Arthur Smothers is buried near Garnavillo. He was in the old folks home when he died and there is no marker on his grave either. I have a letter from one of his granddaughters telling us about him and how mean he was. When he died he had nothing but a handkerchief that his daughter and her family had given him for Christmas. They couldn't afford anything more because they were so poor."
"We also visited the cemetery where James Arthur Smothers is buried near Garnavillo. He was in the old folks home when he died and there is no marker on his grave either. I have a letter from one of his granddaughters telling us about him and how mean he was. When he died he had nothing but a handkerchief that his daughter and her family had given him for Christmas. They couldn't afford anything more because they were so poor."
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