I love some #genealogy serendipity. I made a homemade book scanning rig to image an out-of-print book which celebrates the 100th anniversary (in 1981) of the small town of Cushing, Iowa, where my great-great-grandfather August Reyman lived. He's been a big focus of my research off-and-on for over 20 years. This book has many biographies of the residents and my relatives. While I've been cleaning up the images of the individual pages, I stumbled across this gem in the biography of another family that gives me a bit of back story about my family that I'd never seen before:
> Robert and Jennie and the babe made their way to Clinton County, Iowa, where they began to farm. They continued always to look west. When neighbors of theirs, Reymans, Heitts, and Hunters, talked of the new lands opening up in western Iowa, they were interested in making the move with them…They settled in Ida County; Reymans a little further west in Woodbury County; and the Hunters north of Blooming Prairie, in Minnesota.
I knew that August had come west from Clinton, but never knew that these families had migrated together. August's wife Louisa was a Heitt, and her sister was a Hunter who I knew had lived in Blooming Prairie.
