Emmons, Philander Humphrey 1822 – 1912

EMMONS, JOHNSON, MINTERN

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Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:20

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Apr. 9, 1912, P-FP, C-6

OBITUARY.
EMMONS.
Philander Humphrey Emmons was born at Hartland Conn., Dec. 4, 1822. He was the youngest of a family of four children consisting of three boys and one girl.
When grown to manhood he went to Chenango county N. Y., but remained there only a short time. Having a brother, “L. F." in the jewelry business in Youngstown, Ohio, was an incentive for him to go thither. He joined himself to his brother’s business in the role of “Yankee Pedeler” and labored in this capacity for a number of years, spending two of them in Miss.
Miss Cornelia Johnson, an Ohio girl became his wife. Four children were born to them but only one grew to maturity, a daughter, Cora.
Miss Cora became Mrs. Elmer E. Mintern and now lives at Parkman, Ohio. The wife, also, survives the deceased and has a home with her daughter.
In 1857 L. F. Emmons came to Iowa while Philander remained in the east. After the lapse of half a century the heart of the younger brother yearned to see the older and he ticketed for Cresco to give his brother a great surprise. Just before arriving he fell in company {with} a gentleman who informed him that his brother Loren had been buried ten days. The heart, pulsing with pleasure and a long cherished expectation, was chilled with disappointment. In this way he went out to the Emmons farm in New Oregon Twp. He remained with the family of his nephew, L. E., and has been most conscientiously and tenderly cared for until nine months ago the physical and mental weakness of age made it necessary that he should be taken to a hospital for professional treatment and care. He died at 10 o’clock the morning of the 4th of April 1912 in Independence, Iowa.
The funeral occurred Friday afternoon at 2:30, April 5th, at the residence of L. E. Emmons in Cresco, conducted by Rev. B. W. Soper, pastor of the M. E. church. Interment was in the Emmons family lot in New Oregon cemetery.

Transcriber’s Note: His gravestone shows he was born in 1823.

New Oregon Cemetery
 

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