Addison Emmer/Emor Lough (1859-1920)

LOUGH, FRY, VAIL, STRATTON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/5/2016 at 21:52:51

From Nevada Representative March 15, 1920 (front page)

Obituary.

Addison Emmer Lough, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lough, was born in Greeley, Iowa, Delaware county, May 25, 1859 and died March 11, 1920 at 7 a. m. in his home at Shipley. The cause of his death was pernucious anemia of which disease he was a patient sufferer for three years.

He moved with his people to Story county form Delaware county in 1876 at the age of 17 years.

He was united in marriage to Maria Jane Fry March 28, 1881, at the home of O. E. Fuller of Iowa Center. Three children were born to them, H. A. Lough of Wabasso, Minn., Clara Lough of Shipley, Iowa and Mrs. A. H. Vail of Guckeen, Minn. He and his wife moved on the Ephrem Bowen place 3 miles north of Iowa Center. Mr. Lough teamed the first year for Baldwin and Maxwell, hauling goods from Colo to Iowa Center. Then he bought and improved the 80 where Shipley is now located in the fall of 1889 and lived there for 13 years and then sold to the Short Line Railway Co. In 1902 they bought their present home of A. J. Mills of Nevada which he also improved and where they continued to make their home until death called him.

September 22, 1910, Mr. Lough was taken down with the flu and during that day he gave his heart to God and was converted. The next Sunday he was baptized with song and prayer by Rev. Miss Inman, pastor of the U. B. church, at the home in the presence of family and a few friends.

He leaves to mourn his loss, his wife, one son, two daughters, one granddaughter and two brothers, F. B. Lough and C. W. Lough and one sister, Mrs. John M. Stratton, all of Nevada and a host of friends.

He was a kind and loving husband and father and the death, a most trustworthy neighbor and his friends were numbered only by his acquaintances.