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Title

Letter from Jan LeCocq to Frank LeCocq, Sr., 1896

Authors

Jan LeCocq

Translators

Liesbeth ten Hoeve

Transcribers

Liesbeth ten Hoeve

Files

Description

Letter describing a tornado that hit close by Pella, in Bondurant, and the damage it caused as well as a disaster caused by two trains crashing into each other in Leighton. Enclosed in the letter is a poem: "The Christian's Homesickness for the Heavenly Homeland", written because of the troubled times on earth and financial struggles.

Publication Date

8-17-1896

Keywords

Letter, LeCocq, Jan, Frank Sr., Pella, Harrison, family, Maggie, Dorus, Kobus, Charley, Ziegeler, cigars, poetry, train crash, tornado, Christian's Homesickness for the Heavenly Homeland

Recommended Citation

LeCocq, Jan, "Letter from Jan LeCocq to Frank LeCocq, Sr., 1896" (1896). Jan LeCocq. 4.
https://nwcommons.nwciowa.edu/janlecocq/4