Iva Jane Shanabrook ^{2 3 4 5 6}

  General Notes:

(Source: Juneau County Chronicle, Juneau County Wisconsin, Tuesday, May 12, 1959)

Names of County Pioneers Flavor Mile Bluff's History

(Ed. Note: The following article by Mrs. Henry Schoeder of Reeder, N. Dak., formerly Evelyn Murphy of Mauston, concludes the series on Mile Bluff school history. It was at the suggestion of Mrs. Schoeder, a former student there, that the present members of the school and its teacher, Mrs. Virginia Brown, have collected the information presented last week by the students and this week by the Mrs. Schoeder, herself.)

How many people around Mauston realize that the Mile Bluff school is really one of the city's oldest landmarks?

From the earliest records, we find that the old school house was a frame building and it stood across the road from the present one.

Many families comprised the district from its very beginning; Gregory, McNown, Smith, Ryan, Craine, Maloney, Train, Murphy, Stewart, Stevens, Dockstader and Wermuth. Early teachers include Rhodina Train, Grace Gulverson, Sarah Seckerson, Linderman Wright, Marcia Ackerman and George McNown.

As the need arose, a larger and better schoolhouse was erected in 1882. It is still in use after 75 years. The first teacher was G. A. Temple, with 26 pupils enrolled.

We are very grateful to Emil Wermuth, Bridget Larkin, Mrs. John McNown and Sophia Norton for much of the information concerning the present building and its activities through the years.

Here I would like to name the teachers that have taught this school: G. A. Temple, Anna Lavin, E. Dodge, Clara Long, E. E. Darren, Ada Hull, Clara McNown, Katie Murphy, Lillian Robinson, Jennie Murphy, Nellie Carter, Iva Shanabrook, Iva Tremain, Grace Baldwin, Agnes Jennings, Dieda Robinson, Ora Boorman, Theda Carter, Will Tiedman, Rose Murphy, Rebecca Murphy, Elizabeth Hamilton, Mary E. Larkin, W. W. Dyer, Bertha Foote, Anna Rosenbush, C. H. Potter, Harriet Dalton, Emily Machovee, Mary Kieffer, Bertha Tiederman, Beatrice Fletcher, Alice Baldwin, Mildren Sherman, Claire Ferguson, Magdalene Pfiefer, Margaret Petrowitz, Katherine Bohen, Georgia McNutt, Mary Vlna, Antoinette McIntyre, Harry Hanson, Helen Gardner, Mildred Thompson, Persis Ackerman, Lorraine Sumiec, Leona Robinson, Avancile Maxwell, Blanche Hepp and Virginia Brown.

I visited this school in February and I couldn't help but think how well it has been preserved. On the outside, it's the same as the day it was built, but now it has an oil heating system instead of the old wood stove. I also noticed a new floor, seats, electric lights and inside toilets.

The records of the school have all been kept since it was built, which I think is remarkable, so that today, in 1959, we may salute the memory of our predecessors.
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Iva was baptized at the Catholic church in Trempealeau in October but the year is missing on a copy of the certificate. She seems to have taken the name Elizabeth. It says Elizabeth Iva Shanabrook, born 17 August 1871, and baptized 1 October .... Her sponsors were Elizabeth Drugan and Baites Good...

On 29 July 1917, Iva was working at Marshall Field's in Chicago for $10 a week. She apparently had left her husband Phillip.

In a letter dated 14 Aug 1919, her mother, Mary Keeffe Shanabrook writes her daughter, Iva: "that you were wise to leave...[the abusive husband].

In 1930, she was a member of the Madisonville Methodist Episcopal Church of Cincinnati but she was leaving and transferring to a new church.
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  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1880 US Census in Clay Township, Saline, MO on 1 June 1880. ³

1880 US Census
Page 599B, District 72, Family 15, Roll 0716
Clay Township, Saline County, Missouri
Iva J. Shanabrook..Daughter..8..PA

(Living with parents.)
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• She appeared on the 1885 Minnesota State Census in Winona, MN in May 1885. ⁴

1885 Minnesota State Census
Page 285, Family 829
Winona, Winona County, Minnesota
Ira Schanbrook..14..PA

(Living with parents.)

NOTE - Her name was mistakenly entered as Ira instead of Iva. Her gender was listed as Male instead of Female. If her birth date was 17 Aug 1871, then her age should have been 13 instead of 14.
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• She appeared on the 1895 Wisconsin State Census in Mauston, WI in 20 June 1895. ⁷

1895 Wisconsin State Census
Page 5
Mauston, Juneau County, Wisconsin
Mary Shanabrook..Head
3 white females: (Iva, Margaret, and Mary; Anna was married in 1888)

(Iva was living with her mother.)
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• She appeared on the 1910 US Census in Trempealeau, WI on 15 April 1910. ⁵

1910 US Census
Sheet 1B, District 173, Family 22, Roll 1739
Trempealeau, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
Home owned, no mortgage
Iva Shanabrook..Daughter..38..PA..Saleslady, General Store

(Living with mother.)
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• She appeared on the 1920 US Census in Chicago, IL on 7 January 1920. ⁶

1920 US Census
Sheet 4B, District 389, Family 104, Roll 315, Ward 7
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
6159 University Avenue
Iva Smith..Lodger..48..PA..Seamstress, Clothing Company..Widowed

(Living as a lodger in what appears to be a boarding house. Her husband was still alive and living elsewhere but for some unknown reason, Iva was listed as widowed when her husband did not die until 1954.)
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• Her obituary was published in the Winona Daily News on 16 October 1956 in Winona, MN.

GALESVILLE, Wis. (Special)

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon for Mrs. Iva J. Smith, who died early Saturday at the home of her sister, Mrs. Earl Adams, near Centerville. Services were held in the Adams home. The Rev. W. T. Walker of Trempealeau officiated. Burial was at Trempealeau.

Mrs. Smith had lived with her sister for the past 16 years. She was born in Mechanicsburg, Pa., and lived in the East before moving to the Midwest.

Surviving are a stepdaughter, Mrs. Clarence Stingl of La Crosse; two sisters, Mrs. John Herman of Trempealeau and Mrs. Earl Adams; two brothers, Edgar and Warren Shanabrook of Cincinnati and Trempealeau, respectively.

(Source: Winona Daily News, October 16, 1956)
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Iva married Phillip Smith on 26 April 1916 in , Winona County, MN.¹ (Phillip Smith was born in 1871 in Wisconsin ¹ and died on 28 February 1954 in , Winona County, MN ¹.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They resided in Trempealeau, WI in January 1919.
In Jan 1919, her mother's obituary listed her as one of the surviving children:
- Mrs. (Iva) Smith
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• They resided in Trempealeau, WI in 1935.

  Marriage Notes:

Name: Philip Smith
Birth Date: 1871
Age: 45
Spouse's Name: Iva Shanabrooke
Spouse's Birth Date: 1872
Spouse's Age: 44
Event Date: 26 Apr 1916
Event Place: Winona, Winona, MN
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M75159-1
System Origin: Minnesota-EASy
GS Film number: 1377828
Reference ID: 203

Citing this Record
"Minnesota, Marriages, 1849-1950," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FDXC-6ZR : accessed 07 May 2013), Philip Smith and Iva Shanabrooke, 26 Apr 1916.
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