While driving around a farm with this fellow's great-grandparents, we were discussing their family, which consists of three daughters.?ÿ One will get this side of the dividing boundaries we will be setting on Monday and another will get the other side.?ÿ The third daughter will be getting the farm across the road.?ÿ The third one lives on a farm in Coggon, Iowa.?ÿ The 84 year-old great-grandmother starting talking about University of Iowa football and how her daughter's grandson is the starting right guard and will playing in the Citrus Bowl on New Year's Day against Kentucky.?ÿ I think she's a wee bit proud of him.
I love this bit of info from Wikipedia on Coggon, Iowa, especially their proud claim to fame at the very end.
Coggon was founded in 1857, and celebrated its sesquicentennial in 2007.?ÿThe town's motto is "The One and Only." This is because Coggon, Iowa is the only town named Coggon in the whole world. Previously, the motto was "Some bigger, none better." Coggon is most well known as the site of the 1953 tornado that damaged much of the northwest portion of the town. Coggon is home to The Coggon Rockets baseball and softball teams, which, in 2012 won the Coggon Little League Championship game and took home the title of best softball team west of the?ÿWapsipinicon River.
This is the great-grandson who has some pro scouts watching him fulltime as he was selected for the All Big 10 Team this year.
https://hawkeyesports.com/sports/football/roster/season/2021-22/player/kyler-schott/
I have known the great-grandfather my entire life as he grew up about two miles from my home and his older brother was one of my father's best buds in school.
The great-grandfather mentioned above grew up one mile south of a fellow who had a grandson playing in the NFL for several years.?ÿ That was Josh Freeman, quarterback for Tampa Bay, after being taken by them in the first round of the 2009 draft.
I seem to recall that @james-fleming has connections to Coggon.?ÿ
I live in the same county as Coggon, but it's been a few years since I did anything there.?ÿ I think the last time was a concert in their opera house before COVID.
sesquicentennial
didnt even know that was a thing
@dmyhill?ÿ
I was making trips to Texas regularly in 1986.?ÿ Their car plates had "The Sesquicentennial State" emblazoned on them as I recall.?ÿ They were claiming the 1836 date for joining up with the US.?ÿ Many communities in Kansas have celebrated such claims since 2011, 150 years after becoming a State.
Dang, always learning something new tied into the conversations here.?ÿ Found out the Wapsipinicon River defines the western edge of the Driftless area.?ÿ So, what the heck does that mean??ÿ All you amateur geologists should enjoy this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driftless_Area
I have never been in the Driftless Area.?ÿ Close at Madison, Wisconsin.?ÿ A bit further from my one excursion to Grand Detour, Illinois to visit the blacksmith shop operated by John Deere when he developed the moldboard plow.
sesquicentennial
didnt even know that was a thing
I first learned that term relative to the family farm that my dad??s mom and dad farmed and lived on in Noble County. ?ÿJohn Ott bought 320 acres from Uncle Sam in 1835. ?ÿMartin Van Buren??s signature was on the land patent.
What was your great grandpa's first name on the Ott side? Thomas Morgan Ott, perhaps.?ÿ Is this his grandfather?
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35124940/john-anderson-ott
Yes
John
Abraham
Thomas Morgan (built the barn in 1854 that still stands on the farm today)
Harvey Thomas
Then my grandpa
Then my dad.
Then me.
There are quite a few Ott family members in the Wolf Lake Cemetery.?ÿ A few are in the Oak Park Cemetery.?ÿ The largest grouping appears to be in the Christian Center Cemetery.?ÿ One wandered off all the way to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, home of Phillips 66.
@bill93 Yup.?ÿ The Fleming farm (patented in 1857) was between Coggan and Monticello...my great uncle kept the farm until the late 70's the moved to Marion and went into the real estate business and my great aunt was a school teacher who lived in Ryan.?ÿ My grandfather went off to seminary in Dubuque, and when that didn't take moved to Chicago to "make his fortune".?ÿ
Looks as though you were named for one of the former owners.
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3Aatlases_13157_2_3
This atlas from 1930 shows Flemings in Sections 11 & 12 of Township 86N, Range 5W.?ÿ This is Boulder/Bowlder Township.
The next atlas is from 1895 listing different Fleming names.
That is some very expensive farmground today.?ÿ Still, you should offer to buy it back from the Smith family.
