Unknown Noakes, Wilcox, Starr
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in Red Oak, Iowa USA
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Unknown Noakes, Wilcox, Starr
Updated Jun 26, 2025
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David Starr
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01/01/2001
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AncientFaces
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07/14/2020
The person who owns this photo found it in a family album with no identification. The surname could be Noakes, Wilcox, or Starr from Red Oak Iowa. We haven't seen one quite like it - do you think it's a fancy memorial photo?
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Yeah I think the scroll and flowers suggest memorial.
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Familysearch.org is free and has a lot of the same info Ancestry does, and often it's possible to search death certificates up to 1915 or so, if they want to try to narrow it down to a specific family member who died, say, 1890-1915 (hard to date photos of men)
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