MRS. EMMA BOWLING

BOWLING

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/21/2020 at 11:10:32

MRS. EMMA BOWLING resided near Carbon, Adams county, Iowa, for more than a score of years. She was well known in this vicinity, and her biography will be of interest to many. Briefly, it is as follows:

She was born in Germany, the daughter of George and Lena (Marshaw) Orf, and was five years old when she came with her parents to America and settled in Pennsylvania. Her father was by trade a knife-maker; but after coming to this country he was in the railroad employ. His death occurred at the age of fifty-seven years. The mother died at Mrs. Bowling’s when in her seventieth year.

Emma grew up and was educated in Pennsylvania. Arriving at young womanhood, she was married in 1866 to Monroe Martin. Mr. Martin was born in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, in 1840, a descendant of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. He was reared on the farm and educated in the public schools of his native State. When the war came on he enlisted in Company A, Forty-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers, and served nine months, after which he returned home. Six months later he enlisted again in the Pennsylvania Infantry
Volunteers, remaining in the service three years. He was at the battles of Petersburg, Gettysburg, Wilderness and others, and was honorably discharged at the close of the war.
While in the service he met with an accident by which his leg was broken. His marriage, as already stated, occurred in 1866, and the following year they moved to La Fayette
county, Wisconsin. Mr. Martin was a butcher by trade, and had followed that business five years in Pennsylvania. After residing two years and a half in Wisconsin, they came to Adams county, Iowa, bought wild land and developed a fine farm of 280 acres. Mr. Martin also bought a farm of eighty acres in Lincoln township, which he gave to their only child, Carrie. She is the wife of William Roath, a native of Knox county, Illinois, and has three children: Emma Luella, Lotta May and Alice Elizabeth. Mr. Martin died September 9, 1884, aged forty-five years. On that day he had become a member of the G. A. R., Llewellyn Post, and while returning home was stricken with heart disease and died before reaching the house. He was a man of industry and integrity, and was an honored and respected citizen. Politically he was a Democrat.

In November, 1886, the subject of our sketch was united in marriage with George Bowling, a native of this State, and an enterprising and well-to-do citizen of Douglas township. Mrs. Emma Bowling died November 24, 1891, and was buried at Quincy, November 25, 1891.