Emmons, Lester – Obituary

Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon Funeral services for Lester B. (Bloom) Emmons, of 1706 K. Ave., La Grande, who died in a La Grande Hospital on Saturday, Jan. 21, 1967 will be held Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at the Bollman chapel in Enterprise, with the Rev. Wendel Sullivan, pastor of the La Grande Baptist church officiating. Interment will be in the Enterprise cemetery. Emmons, a retired farmer, was born April 19, 1897 at Enterprise, son of Leonard and Ivy Emmons, and had lived near Enterprise for 45 years. For the past five years he and his wife had lived in La … Read more

Emmons, Martha Emeline Mrs. (Day) – Obituary

Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon Mrs. Martha Emeline (Day) Emmons, died Nov. 7, 1909 Mrs. J. W. Emmons passed away Sunday morning at 3:30 o’clock after a very brief illness of pneumonia. Funeral was held Monday at 10 a.m. from the Christian Church. Rev. W. S. Crockett conducting the services. Internment was in Enterprise Cemetery. A very large concourse of friends assembled in the church and followed the corpse to its last resting place. Mary Emeline Day was born at Flemingsburg, KY, April 13, 1847 and was married to J. W. Emmons Dec. 21, 1865. They moved to Illinois in 1871 … Read more

Biography of Hon. Gardner Batchelder Emmons

Hon. Gardner Batchelder Emmons, a successful business man of Concord, N.H., who is now serving his first term as a State Senator, was born in Bristol, Grafton County, this State, February 18, 1847, son of Horace M. and Maria (Batchelder) Emmons. The paternal ancestors have been identified with the history of Bristol, N.H., for at least one hundred and fifty years; while the Batchelders have been inhabitants of Reading, Mass., about two hundred and fifty years. Gardner B. Emmons attended the public schools of Bristol in his boyhood, and completed his course of study in New Hampton Institute at the … Read more

Emmons, Edith Gayle – Obituary

La Grande, Oregon Edith “Gayle” Emmons, 69, of La Grande, died Oct. 29 at Grande Ronde Hospital. A memorial service will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday at Daniels Chapel of the Valley, 1502 Seventh St. Edith was born on May 22, 1938, to Harry and Ethel (Gardner) Thomas in Baker City. As a teenager, she moved with her family to La Grande where she finished her education, attending business college. On Oct. 29, 1955, she married Don Emmons in Weiser, Idaho. They made their home in La Grande and she worked as a fry cook for the Sac Annex, for … Read more

Emmons, Leonard- Obituary

Leonard Emmons Services Today Another pioneer of Wallowa County, Leonard Berton Emmons, of Enterprise, passed away at the Don Huffman ranch on upper Imnaha Sunday evening, September 19, 1954. He had been in ill health for the past six years. Funeral services will be held this afternoon (Thursday) at 2 o’clock from the Booth-Bollman chapel, with Rev. John Munsey officiating. Interment will be in the Enterprise cemetery. Son of John and Martha Emmons, he was born at Carthage, Ill., December 8, 1874. For a time he lived in Nebraska but for the past 65 years he had been a resident … Read more

Emmons, L. B. Mrs. – Obituary

Death of Mrs. L. B. Emmons Last Saturday at 7:30 o’clock, the spirit of Mrs. Iva M. Emmons quietly passed from earth at the age of 21 years and 4 days. Mrs. Emmons had been suffering with the dread malady, consumption, for some time, and although the physicians had pronounced her case hopeless the end was not thought to be so near, and the summons came as a terrible shock to relatives and friends. The deceased was the second daughter of R.W. Bloom and Mary Etta Bloom, a native of Wallowa County and was married to Leonard B. Emmons about … Read more

Emmons, Charles – Obituary

Services Honor Charles Emmons Memorial services for Charles Dayton Emmons who passed away at Wallowa Memorial Hospital Saturday evening, May 26, 1962 were held Tuesday at 2 pm at the Bollman Funeral Chapel. Rev. A.L. Kinter officiated and his wife was organist. Rev. Kinter and Mrs. Dean Harrison sang ” Beyond the Sunset” and “No Night There”. Casket bearers were: Clarence Shaver, Hoke Ollis, Wilmer Cook, Oscar Hammack, Ted Landis, and Donald H. Davis, and vault entombment was in the Enterprise Cemetery. The deceased was the son of John W. and Martha Emmons early pioneers of Wallowa County and was … Read more

Emmons, John W.- Obituary

Served through the Civil War in the Southern army, passed away Monday night., Jan. 2, 1933 at the home of his grandson, Harold Emmons on Alder Slope. He had been in failing strength for months, owing to advanced age and the end came as to one falling asleep from the weariness of many days filled w/ labor. Born 3/29/1843. At the close of the Civil War, he was married 12/21/1865 to Martha E. Day and they shortly moved to Ill. and later to Neb. In 1885, they came west and settled in the Grande Rhonde Valley. Came to Wallow Co. … Read more

A Genealogy of the Lake Family

Ancestor Register of Esther Steelman Adams

A genealogy of the Lake family of Great Egg Harbour in Old Gloucester County in New Jersey : descended from John Lade of Gravesend, Long Island; with notes on the Gravesend and Staten Island branches of the family. This volume of nearly 400 pages includes a coat-of-arms in colors, two charts, and nearly fifty full page illustrations – portraits, old homes, samplers, etc. The coat-of-arms shown in the frontspiece is an unusually good example of the heraldic art!