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Iowa Missouri Ogden Father: Robert Breeze Ogden Mother: Mary Foster   Date of birth: June 23, 1850 Location of birth: Garyowen, Indiana   Date of marriage: October 6, 1870 Location of marriage: Monticello, Iowa   Date of death: May 18, 1915 Location of death: San Jose, California Buried at: College Park, California No photo available Biography Family legend has it that Iowa Missouri was so named because she was born on the border of these two states. Her obituary placed her birth, however, in Dubuque County on the Iowa/Illinois/Wisconsin border. Other family history sources name her birthplace as Garyowen, Jackson County, Iowa. Garyowen no longer appears on modern maps, but Jackson County is directly north of Dubuque County--on the Iowa/Wisconsin border. Iowa Missouri married William Holston on October 6, 1870 in Monticello, Iowa. The 1880 census placed her and her family still living in Monticello with four kids and her mother. At that time, Iowa Missouri was 29 years old. Iowa Missouri and William moved thier family Oakdale, California in 1882 where they lived for only a short time before moving to Modesto. Later, they moved on to Watsonville, Benecia and finally, San Jose. In California, she became prominent as the treasurer of the state-wide Temperance Union, the W.C.T.U. (Many members of the Holston family we socially prominent or active in local politics.) Iowa Missouri was the mother of six children. Three of her children were lost before ther reached adulthood. Her seventh child, Klyde, passed away in 1891 from typhoid fever before reaching his first birthday. Two years later, in 1893, her fifth child, Guy (only 13 years old), drowned in a local creek. The following year, her fourth child, Fred succumbed to typhoid at the age of 16. Iowa Missouri died at the age of 64 after an unspecified nine-month illness. Her children were buried in Modesto, but she was buried in College Park, California.