Jacob Philip Empie

Jacob Philip Empie

Jacob Philip Empies DAR record, is listed under his fathers (Philip Empie, Corporal DAR # A036710)

Jacob Philip Empie married: Hannah Estes listed under three-DAR National Reference Numbers: 158585 166373 and 194372

At one point in time Jacob settled in Lyme, Jefferson, New York, USA as this website states [http://jefferson.nygenweb.net/lyme.htm]

note: this couple known to have a daughter Elizabeth, who married Lewis Trombley this couple is said to have had a son Charles

Philip Empie, a native of Germany, came to America before the Revolutionary war, and settled in Fulton County, this state, where he died at the age of 60 years. His wife, Katie, bore him three children, Jacob P., Daniel, and Margaret. Jacob P. was born in Montgomery County, and in 1835 came to this town and located on a farm on road 35, where he died in 1840, aged 54 years. He married Hannah, daughter of James Estus, of Fulton County, and their children are Angeline, Caroline, Margaret, Betsey, Catharine, Charlotte, James, William A., and Charles. The latter, born in Fulton County, came to this town with his father, and now resides on the homestead farm. He married Abigail, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Demick) Laselle, and his children are Joseph L., Frances E., Charles M., Augustus G., Frank B., and Dewitt C. His wife, Abigail, died in 1873, aged 61 years. His son, Frank B., married Etta, daughter of Orange and Caroline Harris, of this town, who bore him children as follows: Carrie, Emma, Maude, and Myrtle. Joseph L. Empie served in Co. M, 10th N. Y. H. A., and was honorably discharged. He now resides in Florida. Charles M. Empie married Amelia Etta Wells, of this town, daughter of Nathaniel and Amelia (Ousterhout) Wells, and they reside on the homestead farm setled by his grandfather. Their children are Gertrude L. and Dewitt C.