Charles Emmett Wagner

WAGNER, STEWART, CUMMINGS

Posted By: Jean Wenke, volunteer
Date: 3/7/2009 at 10:41:45

Charles Emmett Wagner, son of Benjamin and Margaret Wagner, was born near Dayton, Ohio, November 18, 1848 and died in Bonaparte, Iowa, July 15, 1924 at the age of 75 years, 7 months and 27 days.

He came with his parents to Iowa in 1855, the family moving to Mt. Pleasant where they resided until 1860 when they moved to the farm on the Des Moines river, two and one-half miles southeast of Bonaparte, where his boyhood days were spent until he was eighteen years of age when he entered the service of the Rock Island railway. He was at first a brakeman, then a fireman and later a locomotive engineer for twenty years. He left the service of the railroad about eighteen years ago, since which time he made his home in Bonaparte.

He is survived by one brother, William Wagner, of Moberly, Mo., three sisters, Mrs. A.A. Stewart of Omaha, Nebr., Miss Mollie Wagner and Mrs. Lewis Cummings of Bonaparte and other relatives.

Funeral services were held at the Lackey Hotel, where deceased had made his home for several years, Thursday afternoon, July 17, at two o'clock with Rev. G. W. Barber of Eldon in charge. Burial was in the Bonaparte cemetery.

From Dorothy Watson's scrapbook, Bonaparte, Iowa Library