Sarah Catherine (Holland) Emery (1846 - 1907)

Born 15 Sep 1846 in Lee County, Iowa near Keokuk, USA

Ancestors

Wife of David Henry Emery — married 23 May 1867 in Oskaloosa, Iowa

Descendants

Died 27 Mar 1907 at age 60 in Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa USA

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Biography

Sarah was born in 1846. Sarah Holland ... She passed away in 1907.

She died from burns from a fire accidentally caused by poor eye sight from an eye injury. Sadly she fell down the basement steps carrying a kerosene lamp at her son Irving's house in Sioux City, Iowa.

Sarah is buried in the Ottumwa Cemetery in Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa, USA.

Sources

• Montezuma, Poweshiek County, Iowa August 7, 1860 US Census, Page 142 (580), Household ID 1034, Family ID 1003, Line 27 (NARA microfilm publication M653).

• Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa 1880 US Census, Page 23, Household 203, Line 33.

• Third Ward, Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa (January 1) 1885 US Census, Page 65 (461), Household ID 388, Family ID 451, Line 20.

• Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa 1900 US Census, Page 10-B, Household 204, Line 77.

• Listed as mother on her son Edwin's Cedar Rapids (20th precinct-24th precinct), Linn County, Iowa, 1925 State Census, Household ID 2055, Line 59.

• Listed as mother on her daughter Clara's "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935", database.

• Listed as mother on her son Irving's North Carolina State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death, No. 1188.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #24866334

Footnotes

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Dave McNally for creating Holland-1960 on 23 Jan 2013.

Thank you to Mary Clive for creating Patton-5322 on 21 Mar 2016.

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