The Emeigh Family

The Family of Jeremiah Emeigh & Elizabeth Lossing

NAME BIRTH LOCATION DEATH LOCATION MARRIAGE LOCATION SPOUSE NOTE
Emigh, Jeremiah 6 March 1754 Beekman, NY 7 December 1811 Beckman, NY 29 December 1777 Hopewell Reformed Church, Hopewell, New York Elizabeth Lossing/Loessing 1
Gertrude "Charity" Emigh   Beekman, NY         Henry Emeigh 2
Philip Emigh 13 May 1779   25 May 1852       Margaret Crouse 3
Egbert Emigh               4

NOTES :

  1. "Minute Man" in the Revolutionary War and served as Private in Dutchess Co. militia regiment of Minutemen under Col. Jacobus Swartout. Elizabeth was b. 9 October 1758, Beekman, New York; d. 1812, Beekman, New York.
  2. Charity and Henry were cousins of some sort, but several SAR/DAR applications show both Henry as well as Charity as children of Jeremiah and Elizabeth Lossing...
  3. Source: SAR applications of Whitney G. Case (1926), Edward W. Case (1939), Arthur W. Emigh (1957) and Albert B. Cole (1965).
  4. Family history notes, "was of Waterloo, NY - had liquor money made in American Revolution."

The Family of Henry Emeigh & Charity Emeigh (cousins)

NAME BIRTH LOCATION DEATH LOCATION MARRIAGE LOCATION SPOUSE NOTE
Emeigh, Henry

approx. 1770-1790

 Beekman, NY         Gertrude "Charity" Emeigh  
Emeigh, Michael June 23, 1805 Saugerties, NY January 23, 1890 Buffalo, New York     Sharp, Margaret  

 

The Family of Michael Emeigh & Margaret/h Sharp

NAME BIRTH LOCATION DEATH LOCATION MARRIAGE LOCATION SPOUSE NOTE
Emeigh, Michael June 23, 1805   January 23, 1890 Buffalo, New York     Sharp, Margaret 1, 2
Emeigh, Isaac Henry July 4, 1830 Buffalo, NY June 20, 1833 Buffalo, NY        
Emeigh, Mary Helen December 28, 1831 Buffalo, NY August 1908       Whitney Asa Case  
Emeigh, Sarah Jane October 20, 1833 Buffalo, NY December 21, 1854 Buffalo, NY        
Emeigh, Julia Elizabeth March 4, 1835 Buffalo, NY November 25, 1855          
Emeigh, Frances Augusta December 7, 1837 Buffalo, NY November 20, 1866          
Emeigh, Louisa December 05, 1839 Buffalo, NY June 16, 1916 Buffalo, NY 1856   Allen, George Beardsley 3
Emeigh, John Dempster August 2, 1843 Buffalo, NY     1869 Buffalo, New York Amy K. 4
Emeigh, Anna Maria February 12, 1846 Buffalo, NY January 18, 1876          
Emeigh, Ellen Ophilia February 3, 1848 Buffalo, NY October 22, 1848          

NOTES :

  1. Michael was a cabinet and funrniture maker. In 1850/51 he is listed in the Commercial Advertiser Directory for the City of Buffalo as a Piano Forte Maker on page 134. In 1875 & 1876, he lived at 140 N. William, Buffalo, Erie County, New York according to the City Diurectory. In 1884, the City Dirtectory places him at 20 Fifteenth St., Buffalo, Erie County, New York as well as at 20 Ketchum Place - perhaps one place was his shoip and the other the home? In 1887, he is listed as a Cabinetmaker at 20 Ketchum Place... 
  2. Margaret b. July 23, 1803, d. April 5, 1853. 
  3. Louisa Emeigh Allen is enumerated in 1880 as divorced and working at the Buffalo Homeopathic Hospital as Matron. In 1900 and 1910, she lives with daughter, Julia Allen Fielder.
  4. John is enumerated in Buffalo; living in the household of Whitney A Case who married his sister Mary Helen Emeigh in 1860 along with their sister Frances Augusta Emeigh (unmarried). He is a Coppersmith Apprentice. He is listed as a Coppersmith living with wife, Amy, in Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin in the 1870 census. In 1880, still in Breen Bay, Wisconsin, he is listed as a Machinist. He and wife, Amy, had no issue as of 1900 after 31 years of marriage where he is listed as an Iron and Copper Manufacturer.

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