Henry Emrick 1833-1914

EMRICK, COCHRAN, BEALER

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 7/1/2017 at 08:43:42

12 February 1914 - The Tipton Advertiser

On Tuesday Feby 10th, at his farm home adjoining Buchanan Henry Emrick died at the advanced age of 81 years. He was one of the pioneer settlers of this county coming here in 1852 from Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania where he was born in 1833.

The sketch of his life as it appears in the Cedar county history states that in coming to Iowa he traveled by steamboat as far as Muscatine and from that place on foot to Cedar county. He secured work in a Tipton brickyard for his first employment and later worked at the carpenter's trade. He saw the possibilities of the then virgin lands of the county and began to deal in farm lands. At one time he owned 1500 acres of land in the county, and at the time of his death still owned a section farm on which he lived.

He was married June 11, 1861 to Miss Mary Cochran who came with her parents to this county in 1839. Their union was blessed with three sons and two daughters, one daughter dying in infancy. One daughter Libbe passed away at the age of twenty-six. One son William A. died about two years ago. One son Frank W. of Tipton, and a daughter Mrs. M. Y. Bealer of Davenport together with his wife survive.