Jeremiah William Cory (1793-1860)

CORY, WOOD, SUNDAY

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 12/17/2016 at 16:39:29

From Nevada Representative January 21, 1910 (page 2)

SUBMITTER'S NOTE: When this "obituary" was found I thought it was a contemporary report of a death and that the 1860 date given was a typo. But it was apparently published in 1910 as a human interest story.

Death of the Elder Cory

One of the very earliest settlers and one of the best known of all this county was Jeremiah Cory of Cory's Grove in Polk county. He settled there in the '40s, before the first white man had made a permanent settlement in Story county, and it was from the Cory settlement that the first pioneering worked north into Indian Creek township and the vicinity of Iowa Center. W. K. Wood's first wife was one of the Cory family, and Evangelist Sunday's mother was another and the various other relationships that run through the south portion of the county and back to Cory's Grove we would not dare attempt to trace. But the death of Jeremiah Cory was a notable event and it is recorded in an editorial paragraph of the Advocate of January 11, 1860, as follows:

"Our citizens were shocked in learn of the sudden demise of this prominent and aged citizen of Iowa Center of Friday last. Mr. Cory was a active and enterprising citizen and much respected by all who knew him. Of his last hours we have but meager account but understand that his family were not aware of his being ill, until he fell from his chair while endeavoring to pick his spectacles up from the floor where he had dropped them. As soon as his condition was known, every effort was made to relieve him, yet without success he died in a few hours thereafter."