EMMERT, Solomon

EMMERT, MCDOWELL, KRING, ROBERT

Posted By: P. Bergmeier (email)
Date: 2/26/2005 at 20:08:48

Solomon Emmert, deceased, was one of the progressive and substantial farmers of Black Hawk County. He was a man of strict integrity, perfectly honorable and upright in all his dealings, and was respected by a large circle of friends and acquiantances, who admired his many manly qualities, and genial, social manners.

He was born in Pennsylvania, January 7, 1821, a son of John Emmert, and was married in his native State, in Somerset County, in 1843, to Mattie Kring. He came West to Illinois in 1866, and thence in 1868 to Iowa, and settled on the farm in Big Creek Township, where his family now resides. He died November 20, 1881.

He was twice married, his family by the first marriage consisting of the following children--Lizzie, born December 11, 1845, now lives in Nebraksa; Lucy, born August 18,1847, lives in Benton County, Iowa; John, born November 28, 1848, of Nebraksa; David, born May 31, 1851, of Iowa; Mary, born April 11, 1853, lives in Illinois; Susan, born June 29, 1854, lives in Pennsylvania; Sophie, born November 8, 1857, lives in Ohio; George, born February 11, 1850, was stabbed and killed February 7, 1875, just as he was leaving church; Hattie, born May 17, 1860, lives in Nebraska; Ida, born Janaury 7, 1862, lives in Nebraska, and Wesley, born June, 1866. His second wife, to whom he was married in 1872, was Rose McDowell, born in 1841, a daughter of George and Mary (Roberts) McDowell. To them were born four children--an infant, born September 27, 1873, died November 5, following; Edwin, born September 25, 1874; Arthur, born May 12, 1878; and Miller, June 22, 1881. Mrs. Emmert has charge of the homestead, Wesley making his home with her.

Historical and Biographical Record of Black Hawk County, Iowa 1886