Dean miners to Seymour Iowa (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Tuesday, August 14, 2012, 22:00 (4486 days ago) @ bonnie1man

Hi Bonnie,
please see the direct email I've sent you containing Derrick Kear's home postal address etc. Luckily his own holiday just avoids clashing with your visit dates and he's looking forward to hopefully meeting you in September. You mentioned you were surprised to find a mining town in what you thought was the stereotypical flat corn lands of the mid-West; Derrick told me he was too, and thought the Seymour area very alike to his Forest home, which I hope you'll enjoy visiting. Derrick also reminded me that altho many Foresters did migrate to Seymour in it's heydays, some of them eventually returned to the Forest when the Seymour mines went into decline.
This excellent site shows the population peaked in 1910 at abt 3 times the current 800ish. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour,_Iowa

Another usefull site which includes links to the local Wayne County family history forum is
http://www.americantowns.com/ia/seymour-information#History

Re the Seymour area this forum has had several prior threads which may help other researchers, including yours Bonnie thankyou, such as:

http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=17874
http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=31298
http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=16343
http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=22638
http://www.forest-of-dean.net/gallery/coleford/pages/page_2.html