EMERSON Family records

EMERSON, FOSTER, OLNEY, WILSON, CHANDLER, MASDEN, DEVAIN, SPRAGUE, WHITE, GATES, SCOTT, BISELL, LITTON

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/23/2011 at 20:42:27

"Jefferson County Records"
by Orville & Mary Prill
Volume 3, Pages 188-190

EMERSON Records contributed by Miss Iva Scheffel:

Deacon Asa EMERSON, who served in the Revolutionary War, was born in 1749 and died Feb. 10, 1822. He married Eunice FOSTER Oct. 25, 1781. His wife Eunice FOSTER EMERSON died June 17, 1822. Asa EMERSON was a Corporal, Clerk and Sergeant in Vermont troops, under Captains Hodges and Hazen and Colonels March and Wood.

Asa EMERSON Jr., son of Deacon Asa and Eunice (FOSTER) EMERSON, was born March 14, 1786; died 1855. His wife was Elizabeth OLNEY; she died May 3, 1842. They were married Jan. 26, 1809. They came from Ohio (probably Morgan Co.) north of the Ohio River where two sons had drowned. They came down the Ohio River and on the Mississippi, and located in Lee County, Iowa, near Denmark or Lowell and lived on a farm near Pilot Grove and were buried on their farm.

Their son William John EMERSON was born May 7, 1833 and died Sept. 23, 1889. He was united in marriage with Catherine WILSON Sept. 19, 1858. She was born Oct. 31, 1837; died Jan. 6, 1918 (sic - 5th on gravestone). William John EMERSON attended the Denmark Academy. He was a rural school teacher for many years, and he was a farmer. They lived in Jefferson County and are buried in the Lambirth Cemetery. They lived about five miles south of Lockridge, Iowa.

EMERSON FAMILY BIBLE, published New York; A. J. Johnson, 11 Great Jones Street (near Broadway); W. D. Cummings, 64 Grant Street, Pittsburg, Pa. MDCCCLXXV. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. Asa EMERSON Jr. brought the Bible with him from Ohio to Iowa. (Handwritten note: Bible was in custody of Mrs. Anna EMERSON CHANDLER, aunt of Amy EMERSON MASDEN.)

MARRIAGES
Asa EMERSON and Eunice FOSTER, Oct. 25, 1781
Leuke EMERSON and Katherine DEVAIN, Sept. 13, 1814
Asa EMERSON Jr. and Elizabeth OLNEY, Jan. 26, 1809
David EMERSON and Nancy SPRAGUE, June 5, 1810
Eunice EMERSON and Samuel WHITE, Dec. 21, 1809
Susannah EMERSON and Samuel GATES, April 20, 1809

BIRTHS
Abigail EMERSON, July 15, 1782
Leuke EMERSON, July 9, 1784
Asa EMERSON Jr., Mar. 14, 1786
David EMERSON, May 28, 1788
Eunice EMERSON, Mar. 14, 1790
Susanna EMERSON, Jan. 25, 1792
Daniel EMERSON, Aug. 25, 1794

Children of Asa and Elizabeth (OLNEY) EMERSON:
John EMERSON, born Dec. 23, 1809
Abigail EMERSON, born Dec. 26, 1810
Lusena EMERSON, born Mar. 7, 1812
Asa EMERSON Jr., born Aug. 27, 1813
Eliza EMERSON, born Mar. 2, 1815
Enoch EMERSON, born May 1, 1816
Susana EMERSON, born Aug. 29, 1819
Anna EMERSON, born Jan. 30, 1821
Samuel EMERSON, born Sept. 30, 1822
Amanda EMERSON, born May 28, 1825
Eunice Edith EMERSON, born May 29, 1827
Lydia EMERSON, born Jan. 24, 1830
William John EMERSON, born May 7, 1833
Sarah EMERSON, born April 7, 1835

Mary Elizabeth SCOTT was born July 6, 1833
(Daughter of Lusena EMERSON SCOTT)

DEATHS
John EMERSON died Sept. 1, 1813
Abigail EMERSON died Jan. 2, 1812 (?)
Lusena EMERSON SCOTT died Mar. 18, 1844
Asa EMERSON Jr. died Dec. 14 (or 18), 1843
Eliza EMERSON died July 3, 1832
Enoch EMERSON died July 15, 1818
Susana EMERSON died Sept. 20, 1831
Anna EMERSON died June ____ 1911 (written in)
Samuel EMERSON died Sept. 29, 1845
Amanda EMERSON BISELL died Nov. 23, 1846
Lydia EMERSON died Nov. 1, 1846
William John EMERSON died Sept. 23, 1889
Sarah EMERSON died Mar. 17, 1900
Elizabeth, wife of Asa EMERSON died May 3, 1842
Deacon Asa EMERSON died Feb. 10, 1822
Eunice wife of Deacon Asa EMERSON, died June 17, 1822
Nancy SPRAGUE EMERSON died Mar. 20, 1813
Katherine DEVAIN EMERSON died Aug. 7, 18??

William J. EMERSON died Sep. 23rd, 1889
Katharine A. EMERSON died Jan. 5th, 1918
Edith J. EMERSON died Apr. 20th, 1861
Asa A. EMERSON died Aug. 4th, 1870
Luella EMERSON died June 15th, 1873
Louis W. EMERSON died Aug. 22d, 1877
Ada A. LITTON died June 11th, 1901.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I am not related to the person(s) mentioned.