Clay County, Iowa on the Web

Clay County, Iowa has several excellent web sites to visit and to serve as models for other county website projects. One is the "Clay County, Iowa Biographies", which are indexed, including over 120 individuals such as Horatio Nelson Castle, Adelaide Knight, and Frank M. Tuttle. Several women were included in this 1889 county history, which speaks well to including women's history. The website address is www.rootsweb.com/~iaclay/biondx.htm

Equally helpful are the seventeen county cemeteries indexed and complete with digital images and transcriptions of the tombstones at "Clay County, Iowa Cemeteries". My favorite inscription was for Maggie G. Capstick Austin buried in Fairview Cemetery, who "deserted this life January 11, 1894." Check this site at www.rootsweb.com/~iaclay/cemetery. htm