REVEREND E. J. LOCKE was born in Rhode Island on November 27, 1809. He married Chloe Woodmansee in Rhode Island on October 27, 1833, and the couple had seven children survive to maturity - Waity, Pardon, Hannah, Almon, Charles, Sarah, and John. At age thirty-three, E. J. Locke entered the ministry of the Baptist church and remained at his original pastorate for twenty-seven years. In 1868 he assumed duties at a church in Stonington, Illinois, but his health failed after one year there, and he left the ministry and he brought his family to Cass County, Iowa, where he purchased eighty acres in Section 31 of Brighton Township and forty acres in Pottawattamie County in 1870 from James Pantier. This farm was in the southwestern corner of the township.

Transcribed from "The First Century, A History of Marne, Iowa 1875 - 1975", published in 1975, Marne, Iowa: The Marne Centennial Historical Committee, pp. 31-32. Transcribed (2015) by Cheryl Siebrass and contributed September, 2019.

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