David Elliott Eckert and Mrs. Eliza Pope

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Husband David Elliott Eckert ¹

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           Born: 19 Jun 1830 - Washington, Washington Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 11 Aug 1879 - Fairfield, Jefferson Co, IA 1
         Buried:  - Fairfield, Jefferson Co, IA

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         Father: David Eckert (1778-1850) 1
         Mother: Susanna Slagle (      -1876) 1

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       Marriage: 23 Sep 1852 - Fairfield, Jefferson Co, IA 1

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Wife Mrs. Eliza Pope ¹

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           Born: 1830 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 10 Mar 1911 - Fairfield, Jefferson Co, IA 1
         Buried:  - Fairfield, Jefferson Co, IA

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - David Elliott Eckert

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He was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, and was educated there. At the age of twenty-one years he went to Fairfield, Iowa, in the autumn of 1851. He went into the land and land warrant business under the firm name of Hamilton and Eckert. In the winter of 1853 Mr. Eckert joined the Methodist Church of Fairfield. On the morning of Sunday, August 7th, 1879, Mr. Eckert was stricken with a severe attack of paralysis, which rendered him helpless and speechless, and which terminated in his death on Thursday night, August 11th, 1879, at 10:30 o'clock.

1 Ella Campbell Slagle Nichols, Family Record (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately published, 1914).