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A preceded Alcoholics Anonymous display of historical items is always by almost a century. popular for such events and while Perhaps the stigma of having searching for memorabilia in the been reprimanded was too much church archive room, I came across for Phebe and Joseph. Soon after a fascinating story about a couple Joseph’s difficulty with the church named Joseph and Phebe McCloy. elders, the couple moved thirty Phebe has always been a well - miles south to Jackson County, known figure in our church. Per - Iowa, and became founding mem - haps current members would not bers of another First Congrega - know her by name, but they would tional Church in the tiny village certainly recognize the fact that she of Maquoketa. was one of the fourteen women What became of Phebe and Phebe Strong Bellows McCloy (1802-1871), who along with five men founded first wife of Joseph. Born in New Hamp - Joseph? Where had they come what would become the First Con - shire. Died in Maquoketa. (Courtesy of from? What did they do in gregational Church in 1839, when Helen and Richard Rockrohr) Jackson County? Did they raise a Dubuque was just six years old and Iowa’s statehood designation was family and if so, who and where still seven years in the future. are the descendants today? An - The May 1869 Handbook, published on the church’s 30th anniver - swers can certainly be found on sary, tells us that Joseph finally joined the church in 1841, two years the Internet. Let’s search census after his wife. Also noted is the fact that both Phebe and Joseph “joined reports, county histories, old news - by letter” and both were “dismissed by letter”, telling us they had papers, birth, marriage, death, belonged to a church before they came to Dubuque and joined another cemetery, and military records to when they left. see if we can discover the rest of One of our oldest record books recounts in spidery handwriting the McCloy’s story. a sobering tale involving poor Joseph. Apparently, he liked to drink alcohol. The teetotaling church elders called him to task for his intem - Where did the McCloys live perance shortly after he joined the congregation. Imbibing alcohol was before coming to Dubuque? one of the behaviors not tolerated by a church which descended from The 1879 History of Jackson the puritanical Pilgrims. County has been reproduced Joseph was formally accused of intemperance in 1842 and was asked online, http://archive.org/details/ to submit a letter of explanation to the church council in order to avoid historyofjackson00west , and pro - excommunication. We do not have his reply, however, according to vides biographical information council proceedings, the church found Joseph’s explanation wanting and for Joseph and Phebe McCloy.