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Called Oldest Living Pioneer in 1910, Iowa Native Trekked The Across Country

โ€œI have experienced the first real trial of my life. After a few days of suffering our little Hannah died of lung fever so we are left with one baby,โ€ Keturah Belknap wrote in her diary in November 1843 of the death of her first child. But it would not be the last time she […]

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