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| Sign at south entrance in March 2020 |
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| Sign at north entrance in March 2020 |
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On March 8, 2020, my husband, John and I along with
our daughter, Sarah Worden, drove around Forest City as we were
traveling back to TX after attending the wedding of my nephew, Jonathan
Berndt to Courtney English on March 7, 2020. We just passed through as
we had no names of any of my maternal Grandmother's relatives that may
still live in the area where she was born.
I add
another article which my brother-in-law, Robert Berndt, has been able to
find in his research of family members who lived in Forest City, Iowa.
JOHN ISAACSON
John Isaacson, justice of the peace of Forest City, a veteran
of the Civil war
and a retired business man and farmer, has in many ways left
the impress of his individuality upon the history of Winnebago
county, where he has ever stood for those things which are
most worth while in the life of the community. He was born in
Norway on the 12th of March, 1840, a son of Knud and Mary
(Berg) Isaacson, who came to the United States in 1855,
settling in Dane county, Wisconsin, where they resided until
called to their final rest.
