John and Anna Pool are my gggg grandparents. I am related through their daughter Louisa and then her daughter Corilla Hyden who was married to Robert Apple.
Louisa was born 15 Aug 1842 in Indiana and died 19Aug 1891 in Story Co, Iowa. She married George Hyden on 14 November 1859 in Story Co, Iowa. They had 7 children, Florance Ann, Corilla, Robert John, Mabel, George, Rose and Emma.
George was born 12 May 1828 (although his death notice says 1826) in Chorelv, near Litchfield, Staffordshire, England (also per obituary) and died 28 Feb 1911 in Fernald, near Nevada, Iowa, (pronounced with a long a per local residents). I also have his obituary which is rather long and I will include it at another time. If you like, I could also email it to you.
My husband and I took a trip to Des Moines in May 2008 and were able to visit some of the cemeteries that the Pools, Hydens, and other family members were buried in. If interested, I have pictures of headstones for:
John P. Pool, Anna Pool Campbell, George & Louisa (Pool) Hyden and their children, Thomas Pool, T.S. Pool, B.P. Pool, Wm. Pool, Katy Pool, Butler Pool, Elias & Hannah (Dunning) Apple, Clark & Corilla (Hyden) Apple, George & Eva Apple, John & Margaret (Kuhn) Apple, Marcellus & Pearl (Wallace) Apple, other Hydens, other Hilburns, Emma Corcoran, Smay, Cornelius & Elizabeth Johnson, Joel Johnson, Bethel & Charity Dunning, Hannah (Judd) Dunning, Kuhn, Booher and Shearer from the Nevada Municipal Cemetary, Murphy Cemetary and Franklin Cemetary in Story Co, Iowa and Pine Hill Cemetary in Polk Co, Des Moines, Iowa.
I don’t know for sure how all of them tie in, but ask and I might know the answer to some. There are too many to attach so please contact me and I will email directly to you. My email address is
dollsy@hotmail.com.
We also found the following death notices:
Register of Deaths (Story County), Iowa
#48 Date of Report 3/14/1893
John Presley Pool (I think this is Louisa’s father. In George’s obituary it says that Louisa’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. Presley Pool.)
80 years
Male, White, Farmer
Died: Feb 14, 1893
Born: Ohio
Cause: Extreme age with mitralaortic insufficiency, Length-6 mos.
Died: Iowa Center
Burial: 2/16/1893, Nevada
Coroner: F.S. Smith, Nevada
Pg. 6
Wm. Pool
Died: December 15, 1895: 3:25 a.m.
69 years, 9 mos
Male, White, Retired Farmer
Place of Death: Story Co., Iowa
Cause: Brighop Disease Pneumonia Complications
Buried: Murphy or Pool Cemetary
Death Record – Story Co., Iowa
Township – Richland
Reg #149
Hyden, George
Born: May 12, 1826 (Headstone and obituary read 1828, 82 yrs, 9 mos, 11 days)
Age at Death: 84 yrs, 9 mos, 11 days
Widowed, Farmer
Born: England
Father: Robert Hyden
Mother: Mary Nook
Informant: Carl Hilburn, Nevada, Iowa (son-in-law, Rose’s husband)
Died: February 23, 1911
Cause: Probably heart failure, was dead before I had seen him. Had not attended deceased at all but was called at time of death.
Coroner: FH. Conner, 2/27/1911
Burial: Richland Twp.; February 25, 1911
Undertaker: C.E. Morfoot, Nevada, Iowa
Records of Death - Story County, Iowa
Page 3
Apple, Clark
Male, White, Widowed, American
Died @ 80 years
Died: 2/25/1938, Nevada
Died: Carcinoma ascending colon
Undertaker: Frank O. Bishop
Page 3
Apple, Chas Edward
Male, White, Married, American
Died 64 years old
Date of Death: 6/1/1936, Nevada
Cause of Death: Gastric hemorrhage
Doctor: H.W. Bowers
Undertaker: F.O. Bishop
Apple, Margaret
Female, White
Died @ age 92
Died: 4/18/1926, Nevada
Apple, Corilla
Female, White, Married, American
Died: Age 66
Died: June 4, 1928, Nevada
Cause of Death: Cerebral Hemorrhage
Doctor: W.B. Sperow
Undertaker: F.O. Bishop
Death Register, Volume 2, Roll #160
Film 14390122, Unit Serial No. 1954E
Polk Co, Iowa
Recorded Feb 26, 1891
Wm Prozman
Male, White, Laborer
27 years
Died: 2/16/1891, Des Moines, 1024 E. Lyon
Born: Layette Co., Indiana
Cause of Death: Implroyd Pneumonia
Duration - 61 days
Elkhardt Twn
Burial 2/17/1891
Physician: W.S.H. Matthews
D (F) Pool
Record Jan 1, 1890
Died: Des Moines
Marriage Records - Story County, Iowa
Volume A-3, 1869-1882
Reel #318
5/20 Apple, Clark, Male
16 Hyden, Corilla
Issue Date: 9 Jan 1878
Authority issued: Grv? Hyden
Solemized: J.A. Smay, Minister
Married: 9 Jan 1878
Albert Apple & Margaret Ellen Smay
Issued: 31 Dec 1877
Authorized by: Albert Apple
Solemized by A.B. Shipman, E.C.P.
Marriage: 1 Jan 1878
Returned: 3 Jan 1878
Volume 1, 1854-1866
Elza Pool & Nancy M. Jackson
Married: 22 December 1859
Returned: 22 December, 1859
Solemized: George H. Kellog, County Judge
Polk County, Iowa - Birth Register 1899-1905
Polk County Courthouse, Des Moines, Iowa
Apple, Bulla M.
Female
Born: July 13, 1901
Place of Birth: Des Moines, Iowa
Mother: Clarah W. Johnson
Father: Robert E.
Apple, Corilla
Female
Born: September 6, 1901
Place of Birth: Des Moines, Iowa
Mother: Hyden, Corilla
Father: Clark
This was a lot to type, so let me know if you have any questions or if there appears to be a typos. Darla