Jasper Edward Emerson

M, #2529, b. circa Jul, 1828, d. Feb 26, 1890
Pedigree
Father*Moses Emerson b. circa 1796, d. May 30, 1845
Mother*Marcia Marenda Leete b. circa Mar, 1798, d. Oct 1, 1862

Family

Polly Pope b. Dec 2, 1836, d. Nov 6, 1910
Children

Chronological Events

Birth*circa Jul, 1828 Jasper Edward Emerson was born circa Jul, 1828 at Shipton, Estrie Region, Quebec, Canada. 
 He was the son of Moses Emerson and Marcia Marenda Leete. 
Marriage*Apr 8, 1857 Jasper Edward Emerson married Polly Pope, daughter of Francis Pope and Belinda Willey, on Apr 8, 1857 at Danville, Estrie Region, Quebec, Canada. 
Death*Feb 26, 1890 Jasper Edward Emerson died on Feb 26, 1890 at Riverside, Riverside County, California, United States. 
Burial*Feb 28, 1890 He was buried on Feb 28, 1890 at Evergreen Memorial Park, Riverside, Riverside County, California, United States. Find A Grave Memorial# 7621812.1 
ObituaryMar 1, 1890  OBITUARY: Jasper Edward Emerson, born July 1828 in Quebec, Canada (most probably in or around Shipton). He married in Danville, Richmond Co., Quebec on April 8, 1857 to Polly Pope, daughter of Francis and Belinda (Willey) Pope, born December 2, 1836 in Shipton, Richmond County, Quebec. The marriage record stated Jasper was of Chester, and Polly was of nearby Warwick. They moved by 1863 to Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, and in 1866 to Dunlap, Harrison County, Iowa, where they had a farm four miles south of the town. They were here until in about 1887 Jasper left the family to go to California to "seek gold", and he resided in the area of Fontana, San Bernardino County. It seems he may have had regrets about leaving his family behind, for he wrote in 1889, "This shuntry life that I am leading is wearing me out pretty fast, but as we make our bed so must we occupy it." During most of his stay in California he suffered illness, he describing it on November 17, 1889 as "not being confined to bed but troubled with sick headaches and could not keep anything on my stomach. To tell you what is truth I should rather die and be at rest than put in another two years like what the last have been." Jasper did not long survive the writing of this letter, as he died on February 26, 1890, and was buried two days later in Evergreen Cemetery, Riverside, California besides his sister Mariam and her husband, James Goodhue. In 1903, Polly moved from her Dunlap, Iowa farm and resided with her children in nearby Woodbine and Missouri Valley, Harrison County, Iowa. She passed away in Missouri Valley on November 6, 1910.2
 

Citations

  1. [S80] Gravestones, online at findagrave.com.
  2. [S19] Obituary - Online, Newspaper or Funeral Home.

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