thanks for your reply. I have a Margaret Whalen married to an Everett Nye, so I assume that that is your grandmother.
If you are at all interested I have some photos of her father James Whalen's family, as well as a bit of family history.
James Whalen moved west from Allamakee Co., Iowa in the late 1800s, but there are still a number of his siblings and cousins descendants living back there, even on the home farm his mother purchased in 1856.