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Citation: 79.414.2 (Full image size: 106Kb)
Tombstone of M. K. (Marcellus K.) Smith and his first wife, Laura West, who was the daughter of the first mayor of Ames, William West. The Smiths lived on Kellogg Avenue. M. K. Smith owned one of the first stores in Ames and served on the city council. When Laura died at the age of 32, she left two small children. Their son, Marcellus K. Smith, Jr., was age 5; and their daughter, Cecile H., was age 2. M. K. married again and his second wife, Rose Smith, survived him. Writing on the stone: LAURA WEST/MAR. 20, 1860/APR. 21, 1892/ M. K. SMITH/APR.11, 1859/MAY 17, 1915.
Citation: 79.414.3 (Full image size: 114Kb)
Tombstone in the Ames Municipal Cemetery for the Hoggatt family reads: L. Q. HOGGATT/Born Mar. 21, 1815/Died Mar. 11, 1896/ ABIGALL HIS WIFE/1821-1905/ ELLEN H. MOFFITT/1856-1891. L. C. Hoggatt donated the land, west of Grand Avenue, for Ames's first school, the Hoggatt School. The Ames Heritage Association rescued this one-room schoolhouse from destruction and restored it in the early 1980s. Hoggatt School is now located on the grounds of Meeker Elementary School.
Citation: 80.415.2 (Full image size: 106Kb)
Monument in the Ames Municipal Cemetery for John E. Duncan and Harriet B. Duncan. John Duncan was an editor (1882-1889) of The Intelligencer, Ames's first newspaper. He came to Ames from a newspaper in Eldora, Iowa, and before that he had been with a Wisconsin newspaper. For more information, see Chapter 17, "Clark vs. Duncan--1886," in "Ames the Early Years in Word and Picture; from Marsh to Modern City," by Farwell T. Brown, 1993. Inscription on the moument reads: JOHN E. DUNCAN/APR. 12, 1836/OCT 8, 1900/ HARRIET B. DUNCAN/JUNE 19, 1843/JAN. 14, 1915. (For another view of this tombstone, see 80.415.1)
Citation: 80.415.4 (Full image size: 95Kb)
Grave marker of Alexander and Cynthia O. Duff, both prominent settlers of Ames, in the Ames Municipal Cemetery. The Duff farm was located in the area before the town was platted by John I. Blair who bought the railroad right-of-way from the Duffs. A number of streets and other areas of Ames have names that are connected with the Duffs.
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