Courtenis S. Emmons (1831-1903)

EMMONS, LONG, LOVELL, ROE, BRIGGS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 2/18/2021 at 13:44:22

From Nevada Representative January 21, 1903 (page 5)

OBITUARY

Mr. Courtenis S. Emmons died Sunday morning, January 11, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. J. C. Lovell Jr., Estherville, after an illness of many month, in which heart trouble and dropsy figured prominently.

Mr. Emmons was born in Franklin, Warren County, Ohio, April 17, 1831; at the age of eighteen he entered Antioch College at Yellow Springs, the institution of which Horace Mann was president; in 1854 he was married to Elizabeth Jane Long near Middleton; and two years later he moved to Springfield, Ill., in a covered wagon, Mrs. Emmons and little son following on the only railroad then built in the west. At Springfield he engaged in the milling business, and his home was directly across the street from Abraham Lincoln's. Some years later he moved to Champaign, where for many years he owned one of the largest lumber yards and also was engaged in the grain business, and where the Chicago fire visited upon him, as upon many others, heavy losses. He came to Story county, Iowa in 1878, and here resided until the death of his wife, after which he sent to Oakland, Cal. That city was his home for thirteen years previous to last April. Then his health being very poor, his daughters went out and brought him to Iowa where they could care for him.

To Mr. and Mrs. Emmons were born six children--two sons who died in infancy, and the four daughters who survive him namely, Mrs. Minnie Lovell of Estherville, Miss Flora Emmons of Nevada, Mrs. Elizabeth Roe of Des Moines and Mrs. Grace Briggs of Nevada.

Funeral services were held in Des Moines Wednesday, January 14, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ole O. Roe, and the remains were laid to rest in Woodland Cemetery.