News : Remembering forgotten IBSSS students; Ingalls Society plans memorial dedication at Evergreen Cemetery

The Mary Ingalls Society cordially invites you to a memorial dedication of 11 former students of The Iowa College for the Blind who died during their time at what we now call the Iowa Braille and Sight-Saving School, and are buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Vinton.

A short committal service will take place on Sunday, October 16, 2016, at 2:00 p.m. at Evergreen Cemetery, 1002 E 10th Street, Lot 31, Vinton.

These graves had remained unmarked until recent research led to the identity of the students buried there. Thanks to the generosity of many donors, a granite monument and headstones will now mark their place of rest. Local historian Rich Farmer will lead a cemetery tour following the service. We would like to include the families of these students from Eastern Iowa listed below, but we need your help locating them:

Sarah A. Cook (Delaware Co.) 1864 (died)

Louisa F. Lunberg (Clinton Co.) 1869

Jesse Palmer Hampton (Linn Co.) 1875

James L. Mitchell (Benton Co.) 1876

Elizabeth "Lizzie"� Adair (Jackson Co.) 1879

Mary Retta Rath (Linn Co.) 1880

George Washington Hopkins (Mahaska Co.) 1892

Buena Vista Culp (Washington Co.) 1892

Leo Vogt (Mason City) 1905

Mabel Lilie Carter 1915

Meta Christine White 1918

If you have any information or questions, please contact Pat Barr at Iowa Braille 319-472-5221 x1110 or email pbarr@iowa-braille.k12.ia.us.