Re: serendipity

["Brad Sinclair Barker" <sinclaire@mindspring.com>]

Hi Laurel - that is a wild story!  Enjoyed it.  See you - Sindy
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From: Spirit One Email <laurel@spiritone.com>
To: Sinclair Discussion <sinclair@matrix.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 2:21 PM
Subject: serendipity


> Well....you never know when something interesting is going to pop up
before
> your very eyes!!  How can people get bored???
>
> This from a Council Bluffs, IA  researcher:  (I know it would be helpful
to
> our readers around the world if we always add the State or Province these
> towns are in.)
>
> "  We have two stained glass windows in our church given by
> the Ivanhoe Commandry, Knights Templar back in about 1886 when the
original
> church was built.  A couple years ago I got interested in tracing the
people
> who had given the windows and those in whose memory they were given.  I
> couldn't imagine why the Knights Templar would give us these two huge
> beautiful windows.  Turned out that our pastor was a member of the Ivanhoe
> Commandry and one of our leading parishioners was a founding member of the
> Commandry.
> The most interesting window of all was given in memory of Dr.
> A. B. McKune.  It turns out he was shot and killed on a downtown Council
> Bluffs street by a fellow physician.  Dr Cross was cross <pun intended>
> because he had treated a dying woman who told him that Dr. McK had botched
> her abortion.  Dr. C. took Dr. McK to court at which point it was revealed
> that the dying woman had recovered - of her delirium tremiums  and that
the
> whole story was a result of her drunken mind.
>  Dr. McK was cleared,
> according to the newspaper, "by the citizens of this town as well as by
the
> courts".   Yes, I'm talking about 1885 not 1985.  Nothing new in the world
> is there?  An interesting, to me, side line on this story is that we got a
> request at the gene library about a month ago asking us to see what we
could
> find about Dr. A. B. McKune, the writer's great uncle, who family history
> told him had been murdered in C.B.!
>
> Keep your eyes wide open,
> Laurel
>
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