Samuel Emery

Name: Samuel Emery Sex: M Birth: 1795 in Pennsylvania Death: 26 JUN 1878 in Indiana Note:

   Notes for Samuel Emery:

   From "History of Randolph County," pages 417- 418:

   " Samuel Emery. Among the quaint personages of the pioneer times of Randolph Co., Samuel Emery was conspicusous. We regret that no detailed history of him has been obtained. He was an early settler, among the first, and he died a very old man, only a short time ago, yet no one has been found who can give a definite history of his life. Andrew Aker, in his 'reminiscenes' furnishes a hint from which to draw a picture of the odd, quaint, sturdy, brave, honest backwoodsman. He says in substance: " There came to my store in Winchester a strange, uncouth - looking fellow, with a bundle of skins on his back. His pants were buckskin and ripped up to the knee; the rim of his straw hat was half torn off, his shoes were ragged and tied up with hickory bark, and everything else in proportion. He wished to 'trade out' his roll of buckskins. He got several articles; we reckoned up, and found the account nearly even. He then said 'I wish to get some other things - - powder, lead and flints; will you trust me? I asked Charles Conway at the back end of the stove. ' O, Sam Emery is all right; he is one of the substantial citizens out of the Mississinewa.' So, I 'trusted' him, and he paid promptly. He traded much with me afterward, dealing always fairly, like the honorable man that he was." "( Mrs. Evans, dauther of Allen Wall, who settled on the river in 1819, says that Samuel Emery came years after her father, probably in 1826. He lived two miles north and one mile east of Deerfield, north of the river.)

   Since writting the ablove, another incident has come to hand, which is so odd that we can say nothing, for we know nothing. A truthful man told us, but how it came to him we cannot tell. Samuel Emery lost some money and was considerably worried, for ' money was money' in those times; besides, no one likes to lose a thing by having it stoled, at any time. Edward Edger, then at Deerfield, thinking perhaps he could guess where the money had gone, since 'boys will be boys', and sometimes think they need for than thier 'pap' thinks they do, advised Mr. Emery to a certain course, which he followed faithfully. He took the Bible and read a certain chapter five nights in succession and told his famly that he was doing it to find out who took his money, and that the one who had taked it would die on the firth night. The last night, as the old man took down the Bible for the fifth time and began to read, one of the boys sang out. 'Stop, dad; you might have a death in your own family ! He stopped, and made no more inquiry for his money (at leastm not among the outside world). What transpired between 'dad' and the boy, this deponent saith not, for a very good reason - - he does not know. The boy who is concerned may be alive yet for all the author knows; if so, it is to be hoped that the whilom lad, be the story true or not true, will not be angry since the crime, even if it were so, was not a very heinous one; and the story was really too good not to be told, and because, in so large and dry a work as a history to be, some fun is, in fact, a sine eua non (thing indispensable); since also, according to the old couplet , ' A little nonsense now and then is relished by the best of men. ' Some of the descendants of Mr. Emery are living in the region still."

   More About Samuel Emery:

   Fact 1: From 1850 Census found in Cecil Beeson Historical Office in Hartford City, Ind

   Fact 1: Samuel & Elizabeth lived in Ward Twp., Randolph Co., In, near Deerfield.

   Fact 3: It appears Samuel went to Deefield area cira 1820 from Pennsylvania.

   DEATH: Date approximate

   BIRTH: Date approximate

   Source: 1850 United States Federal Census

   Home in 1850

   (City,County,State): Ward, Randolph, Indiana

   Source: 1860 United States Federal Census

   Home in 1860: Ward, Randolph, Indiana

Marriage 1 Elizabeth Ensminger b: 1801

Children

   Has Children Peter Emery b: Abt 1822 in Ohio

   Has Children Elizabeth Emery b: Abt 1825 in Ohio

   Has No Children Mary Ann Emery b: Abt 1827 in Ohio

   Has Children Samuel J Emery b: Abt 1830 in Randolph County,Indiana

   Has No Children Sarah Emery b: Abt 1832

   Has Children George Washington Emery b: 1834 in Randolph County,Indiana

   Has No Children Susannah Emery b: Abt 1834

   Has No Children John Emery b: Abt 1836

   Has No Children Simeon Emery b: Abt 1839

   Has Children William Phillip Emery b: 10 SEP 1840 in Randolph County,Ind

Marriage 2 Melinda Wood b: Abt 1815 in Ohio