City and county seat of Wapello County, Iowa

Usage examples of ottumwa.

The farmers who had emigrated from Ottumwa were astonished to see him, for it was Thomas Dole Creevey, now an old man who had lived to see the desolation he had fathered.

She had been reared on a farm east of Ottumwa, one of seven children of deeply religious parents, and Earl had met her at church.

The women of Ottumwa who watched as she pledged her vows concluded that here was a girl who would give her husband little trouble and much support.

And in the last days of summer, 1911, two families from Ottumwa reported to the station for the journey west: Earl and Alice Grebe and a crafty older pair already familiar with emigration, Magnes and Vesta Volkema, accompanied by their two teen-age children.

She had been valedictorian of her class in Ottumwa, a very bright girl who should have gone on to college, her teachers said.

She thought that Robert had obliterated half a dozen policemen in Ottumwa, Iowa, and killed two young women hiking in Vermont.

I left it all there after taking a copy of the certificate, and then I went out to a phone booth and made a long distance call to Ottumwa, Iowa.