Emmons, Phebe Almyra (Humphrey) 1825 – 1910

EMMONS, EMMONDS, HUMPHREY, HOWARD, SHAW, MORRIS

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Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:23

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Jan. 21, 1910, FP, C7

Mrs. Emmonds passed away Wednesday afternoon at the home of her son, L. E., in Cresco. The funeral will be held this afternoon at the residence, Rev. Gammons officiating, with interment in the New Oregon cemetery.

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Jan. 28, 1910, FP, C1

OBITUARY.
EMMONS.
Phebe Almyra Humphrey was born at Durham. Green county, N. Y., Aug. 22, 1825. She spent her girlhood days in this locality; then her people moved to Guilford Centre, Chinango county, the same state.
At this place she met and married Loren F. Emmons on March 8th, 1848, the Rev. Justus L. Janes officiating. They went at once to Trumble county, Ohio, making their first home at Gustavus. Their first daughter, Pluma, was born there. At Vernon the second daughter, Ella, and at Youngstown a third named Frances C.
In 1856 Mr. Emmons came to Iowa and pre-empted in New Oregon twp. After a couple of years he returned east and brought his family to his new prairie home, which was primitive. The last child, a son, Lewis, came to make the family complete.
On this farm the children all grew to maturity while the parents struggled with the vicissitudes of pioneer life. They were hopeful, cheerful, brave and courageous.
Their home was a center of social influence always characterized by hospitality. From it radiated that kindness of heart, that sympathy of feeling which makes friends and keeps them.
They had scant privileges of school and church. In 1890 a Methodist church was built in Paris twp., five miles from the Emmons farm. Mrs. Emmons became a member of this church and when she came to Cresco transferred her membership to the local church.
She was one of a family of eleven children of whom only one, a brother, remains, M. C. Humphrey of Greenwood, Miss.
Half a century of love and labor crowned the declining years of Mr. and Mrs. Emmons with hard earned comforts and made the scene of their labors a sacred place they would not consent to leave until the husband and father died about six years ago. A year later Madam Emmons came to Cresco and to this home with her son and wife and has been the recipient of the most tender care until she died Wednesday at three o’clock in the afternoon Jan. 19th, 1910, being 84 years and five months old.
Her children survived her and were present at the home funeral to give their last fond care to a devoted mother who lived a finished life and fell like a sheaf of grain fully ripe. They are Mrs. Pluma Howard, Cresco; Mrs. Ella Shaw, Madison, S. D., Mrs. Frances Morris, Cedar Edge, Col., and Lewis Emmons. Two of the eighteen grand-children were also present- Norman Howard and Ray Morris, both of Cresco.
Rev. John Gammons, pastor, conducted the services, focusing his thoughts of comfort on the text John, 14-2. “In my father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.”
Mrs. E. O. White and Miss Adah Robinson, alto and soprano, sung “Go Bury Thy Sorrow” and “Beautiful City of Gold.” Interment in New Oregon cemetery.

Transcriber’s Note: Her last name is spelled two different ways. Her gravestone shows Emmons.

New Oregon Cemetery
 

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