Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-02-23

NAS Vos~y
Wien they snigrsted TO tbis county.
Ekr fathdF died 10 this county. her
= nther I'd three npothsrs survive her.
So - married q The ~ Of February,
1859, end died in this county on the
gath Of September. 1850.
Mrs. Sophia Parker was the daughter
Of Nj. - Croppis, farmer, IN the
town Of Egrement in the State OF Mas
sachusett4. where she Vas born in the
year 1903. She received the benefits
Of . common school education, and hav-
inc grown to womaa's estate. was mar
RED 10 M. Samuel Parker, in Troy. in
the State Of New York, in the year 1881.
With her husband, she remained IN
Troy, for the period Of two years, when
they changed their home to Albany,
where they renamed . year, then they
removed to Rochester, where they re-
sided about two years, then they re-
moved TO Laporte, in the State Of Ind'-
ana, where they resided about - long
thence they came TO Rock Island, lii
nois, where they stayed few weeks,
and settleed in Scott county, in August,
1888. Mrs. Parker was . resident OF
this county about. twenty-five years.
Her welded life was about thirty. She
was = woman Of great evenness OF tenn
per, gravity OF demesnor and kind heart
ed to q great degree. She had no chill
dreu, but adopted and educated Miss
Isabel Wood, now the wife Of I. Chan
dler, of Chicago. her last days were
passed in great physical suffering. She
was confined to her room, and for much
Of her time, to her bed, for nearly two
wear. Uoder the expectation OF benefit
from . change Of climate, she, in he'
last sickness, made visit TO Massachu.
setts. where she died in the town Of
Darlington, on the 9th of September
1860. During her long residence in
this county, il was my privilege to know
this excellent lady. | bear cheerful wit
ness to her good isfuence on all per
sons, young or old, with whom her lo'
was cast.
Mr.. Alexander w. McGregor, son O.
Alexander W., and Sarah A. McGregor
vas born in Henry county. Kentucky
on the 18th Of February, 1885, and wal
brought by his parents to thu. county
in the fall Of the same year.
Many persons supposed that he ws'
the first child born in ahis county, but il
appears that he was some eight or nine
months old when his parents emigrated
to this place. His father and Gilber,
q. X. Mitchell, Esq, who settled in THU
county, Simon Meredith and Johnsthar
Parker, were tho two next, and believe
that | was the fifth.
Mr.. Alexander w. Greger, Jr., died in
mis- place on the lat Of October, 1860
and is the third Old Settler of the same
family that has died in this county since
the OF organization of this Society.
Mr.. Christopher Rowe was born in
the State Of New Jersey, on the 18th
of October, 1888. He was of German
extradition, and when he was eight years
old, his father em,grated to New York
aud settled in what is now called the
county Of Tomrkins. Fifty years age
the 18th Of last September, he was mar
ried to his wife, Miss Elizabeth Look
who now lives in the county Of Stubeu
in the same State, when he reached
manhood, in 1910, he went TO the head
OF Crooked Lake, where he vas mar.
ried. In 1918 he had enough Of thlt
worlds goods to buy farm in the town
OF Bath, in the county OF Stuben, and he
resided on that farm until the year
1886, when having endured all the trials
Of settlement in new country, and q
heavy forrest, aud having mastered all
the difficulties of making farm in .
wilderness, he sold out and emigrat.
ed from Stuben to this county,
in the spring of 1886. lie was one OF the
earliest settlers in Pleasant Valley, beng
one Of the original claimants he was al
his life farmer, and he SO pursued his
calling, that he was was always an indie
pendent one. No commercial panic ever
found him with mortgages Or debt, Lie
adopted the true mode OF becoming Jude.
pendent. lie never contracted debt fol
which he did not have the present means
Of payment. lie remained on his farm
in Peasant Valley until about 1856, when
he sod out his farm, having, in his opin'
ion, worked hard enough and long
enough to live At his ease, But in few
years he found himself like the old horse
who had been accustomed to haul stone
to the temple in Athens, and was turned
out to grass-when he saw the others per.
forming their accustomed load, be fell in.
to the line, though they would no: give
him cart, and he who had lived an &C.
tive life for over fifty years could not be
idle, while life and health lasted.
In early life Mr.. Rowe, like most set
tiers in q new country Astounding ia
game, was fond of the pleasure of the
chase he had quick eye and steady
nerves, and he was "mighty hunter
One day his rifle exploded 10 his hands
MIR. Rowe was q man inscnsible to fear,
but not insensible to caution, and from
tina. accident, which providentially
brought no injury to him, until the day
Of his death, it is said that he never
handled gun. Mr.. Rowe passed q
great deal Of his time in the latter part
Of his lie, at Attalissa, where his son,
Mr.. v. X. Rowe and son-in-Iaw, Mr,
Hyde, had q mill, and another soma farm
er. The noise and motion Of machinery
the care and attention Of stock furnish.
cd employment and delight to his active
body and mind. On the 20th Of October