For
Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume II, Biographical, 1911, page 541
EMERY E. SISSEL....Emery E. Sissel, a native son of Muscatine county, was born on the farm where he now lives in Fulton township on the 25th of February, 1870, a son of William and Virginia( Chambless ) Sissel. The parents were married in Iowa, but the father was a native of the Buckeye state and the mother of Virginina. In 1855 they located on eighty acres of land which they had bought in Fulton township. It contained no improvements whatever with the exception of a log house, in which the young couple lived for fifteen years and where the older members of the family were born. They were the parents of eleven children : Frank, who now resides in Nebraska ; Eveline, the wife of George Daum, of Kansas ; Martin, living in Greenfield, Iowa ; Jessie, the wife of William McGarvay, of South Dakota ; Nora, a resident of Kansas ; John, who lives in Nebraska ; Julia, who married Alec MacDonald and lives in Illinois ; William, living in Muscatine county ; Hattie, the wife of William Endicott, of Alabama ; Emery E.; and a son who died at the age of two and one-half years. The father passed away in October, 1878, but the mother survived until the 23d of April, 1909. They were both buried in Parr's cemetery, Fulton township.The early years of Emery E. Sissel were very similar to those of other boys who are reared in the country. He attended the district school, assisted with the work of the farm and in his leisure indulged in the sports and pastimes in which most lads delight. On the 23d of May, 1895, he was united in marriage to Miss Ella Lanz, who was born in Scott county, Iowa, on the 25th of July, 1875. Her mother, also a native of Scott county, was born on the 22d of June 1853, of English parentage, but her father was born in Germany and came to the United States in 1859 at the age of fourteen years. They were married in Davenport, Iowa, in 1870 and immediately after their marriage located on a farm. At the present time they are living in Jasper county, Iowa. Unto them were born seven children : Rose, born on the 18th of August, 1871, the wife of Joseph Stecher of Jasper county ; May, born on the 11th of March, 1873, the wife of August Schuman, of Jasper county ; Mrs. E. E. Sissel ; Myrtle, born October 3, 1881, who married Charles Haugh of Polk county, Iowa ; Herman, born August 10, 1885, a resident of Jasper county ; Colen, born on the 6th of May, 1886, also a resident of Jasper county ; and Grace, born on the 14th of January, 1890, the wife of George Allen, of Jasper county. Mr. and Mrs. Sissel have three children : Henry, born April 30, 1896 ; Herman, born on the 8th of May, 1898 ; and Earl, born on the 27th of September, 1903. The family attend the Presbyterian church, of which denomination the parents are members.
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