NameIona De Elda Van Fossen
Birth19 Mar 1893, Benton Township, Benton County, Iowa
Death11 Jun 1916, Shellsburg, Benton County, Iowa
BurialOakwood Cemetery, Shellsburg, Benton County, Iowa
Spouses
Birth1 Nov 1880, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio3,5
OccupationDay laborer--1900; house painter--1910; threshing--1918.
Marriage26 Mar 1913, Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa
Notes for Iona De Elda Van Fossen
Source: Ancestry.com--Iowa, Select Marriages, 1809-1992; www.findagrave.com; and MyHeritage.com--FamilySearch Family Tree.
For the last year of her life she lived with her parents.
Notes for Albert Peter (Spouse 1)
Source: Ancestry.com—Mason-Sanders-Cress-Van-Fossen-Hopper family tree; Ohio, Births and Christenings Index, 1800-1962; and U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918.
In 1900 he lived with his mother and siblings in Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio. In 1910 he was a border living with the Ewald Bring family in Sheffield, Lorain County. In 1918 when he registered for the draft he lived in Welsh, Goodhue County, Minnesota. He gave his mother’s name and address as a contact person.
An Albert Born (or Barn), age 39, was a boarder in Clinton County, Iowa in 1920. He gave Ohio as his parents’ birthplaces.