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Jasper County Oral Histories

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Photograph of a horse buggy on a dirt road and women in front of a restaurant.

Step back into the early history of northern Jasper County with these oral histories sponsored by the DeMotte - Kankakee Valley Rotary Club.

To listen to these histories, and other oral histories, visit our oral history collection at the Internet Archive.

The following PDF files are transcripts of taped interviews.

application/pdf iconCasper Belstra
application/pdf icon Henry Boezeman
application/pdf iconJohn DeKock
application/pdf iconTeenie DeKock
application/pdf iconJames Dickey
application/pdf iconEmily & Dick Evans
application/pdf iconCornelius R. Evers
application/pdf iconRuth Kiersma
application/pdf iconRon Mosier
application/pdf iconElsie Nannenga
application/pdf iconJake Nannenga
application/pdf iconJ. Wayne Oliver
application/pdf iconEster Richards
application/pdf iconGrace Seegers
application/pdf iconLeonard (Buzz) Swart
application/pdf iconDan Tanner & Gerben Eenshuistra
application/pdf iconMary Thatcher
application/pdf iconGarret and Teenie Walstra

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