Hi: Lookng for connections to the EMMITT family listed below, or any others
from Waverly, Pike Co. OH,.Indiana or Illinois USA
This Family was first living in Pike CO. OH. Where the first 3 children
were born. They were living in PEKIN ILLINOIS in the late 1800's where
4 of the children were born, by 1900 the family had moved to Terre Haute
Indiana. The family also lived in Kentucky at one time.
George (Ell) Elbert EMMITT(my g Uncle) b. June 1853, m. First wife Flora P.
HIGGINS ca 1879 Children: Robert M. b. 5 July 1880., Thomas H. b. 26
Jan.1883, and Earl EMMITT b. 1885. George divorced Flora ca. 1886. This
family lived in Pike Co. OH. in the latter half of the 1800's. All the above
born in Pike Co. OH. Some time after the divorce the family moved to Pekin
Illinois and eventually to Terre Haute Indiana.
Second Wife: m. Maude McCLURE. ca 1887
Children: Minnie FISHER b.. Nov. 1888 Pekin IL., George R. b. 7 Oct. Pekin
IL, John b. 1895 Pekin IL., and Arthur EMMITT b. Oct. 1897 Pekin IL. After
1897 the family moved to Terre Haute Indiana.
Eliza Jane Emmitt (my g grandmother) widowed mother of George Elbert was
living with the above family in Terre Haute, Vigo County IN. until her death
in 1906, buried in Evergreen Cem. Waverly OH..
I have searched for years and have found no living decendents of any of the
above except my g grandmother Eliza Jane Emmitt. Any help with the above
will be greatly appreciated. The first three children Robert, Thomas & Earl
EMMITT were not on the census with their father in 1900 at Terre Haute IN.
Have information to share. I have data three generations before
George Elbert EMMITT, as well as his 2 brothers and a sister.
John Emmitt <jwemmitt(a)mindspring.com>