Impassable

The Youngs were Ulster Scots (people of Scottish descent who lived in Northern Ireland.)  The moved to the New World before the American Revolution and then, slowly over the years, made their way westward.  One one of the stops along the way was Jones County, Iowa.

I wasn’t able to explore as much as I would have liked because the roads—all mud and snow—were impassable to my poor little Prius.I couldn’t help but hear Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” playing in my head as I looked out at what, as far as I was concerned, might has well have been Russian steppes.My great-great-great-grandmother Eliza Davidson is buried in the Scotch Grove Cemetery alongside her brother-in-law, Thomas Young, who was a Civil War veteran who eventually committed suicide in 1894.