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Surnames: EMERY, HAYS, RAYBURN, MCWHIRTER
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THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Friday, February 26, 1909,Volume
XXXIII, Number 15, Page 5, Column 3, “DEATH’S HARVEST. Emery. ” [Transcribed February 28,
2003 from microfilm of the original newspaper on file in the Bloomfield-Eastern Greene
County Public Library.]
With a constitution weakened by various attacks of illness, Nathaniel EMERY, succumbed to
la grippe at 6 a.m. last Sunday at his home a short distance south of the Monon depot.
His home had been in Taylor Township since 1848 until a few years ago when he moved to
Bloomfield to pass the declining years of his life.
He was born April 2, 1831, in Coshocton County, Ohio, and was therefore aged seventy-seven
years, ten months and nineteen days. A funeral service was conducted at the family
residence in the presence of a large gathering of relatives and friends Monday noon by
Rev. E. H. WOOD, of the M. E. church, after which the funeral party left for Simpson
Chapel in Taylor Township, where Rev. J. A. SPENCER, of the Christian church, conducted a
service in the presence of a large gathering of old neighbors and friends and relatives of
the deceased. Interment was in the cemetery adjoining the chapel grounds.
Mr. EMERY united with the M. E. Church many years ago at Simpson Chapel under the pastoral
labors of Rev. Jesse WALKER, of previous memory. After removal to Bloomfield he and his
wife attached their membership to the Methodist Church at this place and he continued a
faithful and acceptable member until death. He was a good man and has gone to his
reward.
He was married November 15, 1855, in this county to Miss Susan MCWHIRTER, who, with five
of the eight children, survive him. The surviving children are Major Jonas A. EMERY, U.
S. A. Retired, of New Castle, Indiana; Jesse W. EMERY, of Parsons, Kansas; Charles S.
EMERY and Harvey N. EMERY, of Taylor Township, and Mrs. Lillie V. RAYBURN, of this place.
Mr. EMERY was proud of his service as a soldier during the Civil War, serving as a private
in COMPANY G, ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-NINTH REGIMIENT VOLUNTEER INFANTY, from February until
May 1865 when he was compelled to retire on account of disease contracted in his brief
service.
Mrs. Susan EMERY and children wish to extend their heartfelt thanks to the community at
large for many acts of kindness during the last illness of their beloved husband and
father, Nathaniel EMERY.
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NOTES—RLJ: (1) 1850 US CENSUS OF GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, Taylor Township, 30 Sep 1850,
Page 414, Dwelling 105, Family 526, Lines 9—16: Ambrose EMERY (55, M, farmer, $800, PA),
Nathaniel (19, m, farmer, OH), Mary (54, f, PA), Clementine (20, f, PA), Jesse (14, m,
OH), Jonas (14, m, OH), Charles HAYS (12, M, OH), Rebecca EMMERY (55, F, PA). Dwelling
106, Family 527, Lines 17-19: Ambrose EMMERY (29, m, Farmer, $400, PA), Ann (21, f, VA),
Mary K. (1, f, IN). (2) 1880 US CENSUS OF GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, Taylor Township, 1 Jun
1880, Page 195B, Dwelling 15, Family 16, Lines 14-19: EMERY, Nathaniel (w, m, 49, Farmer,
OH, VA, PA), Susan (w, f, 45, wife, keeping house, OH, OH, OH), Jessie (w, m, 19, Son,
Works on farm, IN, OH, OH), Charles (w, m, 16, Son, Works on farm, IN, OH, OH), Harvey (w,
m, 11, Son, At school, IN, OH, OH), Lilly (w, f, 5, Dau, IN, OH, OH). (3) DEATH RECORDS OF
GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, Health Department, E. Spring Street, Bloomfield, IN, Death Re!
cord H-6, Page 29: Nathaniel EMERY, d. 21 Feb 1909 Bloomfield, age 77, born Ohio,
Father—Ambrose EMERY; Mother—Mary ANDERSON.
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Link to the Obituary of his son, Maj. Jonas Aden EMERY [1856IN—1915IN]:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.n...
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Link to the Obituary of his son, Charles S. EMERY [1863IN—1925IN]:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.n...
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Link to a 1908 Biography of his adopted son, Charles Anderson EMERY:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ingreene/bios.htm#emery
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Link to the Obituary of his sister-in-law, Rebecca Caroline (MCWHIRTER) WHITE
[1851IN-1925IN]:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.n...
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