Emery Crosby (1819 - 1889)

Born 26 Jan 1819 in New York

Ancestors

Husband of Nancy (Miller) Crosby — married about 1838 in New York [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 24 Jan 1889 at age 69 in Michigan

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Biography

Emery was born at Albany, Albany, New York, 26 August 1819, and died in Emerson Township, Gratiot County, Michigan, 24 January 1889. He is buried in Ithaca Cemetery in Ithaca. He married first in New York, about 1838 Nancy M. Miller; he married second in Michigan, 13 May 1877 Elizabeth Holiday Morton.^[1] Emery and Nancy were married about six years when they moved to Wayne County, Michigan, where Emery was engaged in teaching and preaching for some time, afterward doing duty in the same lines in Lenawee and Hillsdale Counties. He moved to North Shade in 1856, locating on section 32. Emery was North Shade's third supervisor, having been elected in the spring of 1858. The following fall he was elected county clerk, and served one term. He moved to Ithaca early in 1859 to take up the duties of county clerk, living in Ithaca until his removal to Lafayette in 1873. While a resident of Ithaca he served as clerk and justice of the peace of Newark Township. Emery was a well-known and popular teacher, officiating in the St. Louis school in 1864. In 1863, at the age of 44, he enlisted in the Michigan 4th Cavalry Regiment for the Civil War, and mustered out October 26, 1864 in Jackson, Michigan. He was considered as a man above reproach in private life and as an official. Nancy died in 1872, and in 1877 Emery married Elizabeth. Emery died at the home of his son Virgil in Emerson Township at the age of 69. He belonged to the Christian Church, and was also an active member of the I.O.O.F. and of the Masonic order.^[2]

Burial

Ithaca Cemetery, Ithaca, Michigan.

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Sources

1. ↑ Ithaca Genealogy Library
2. ↑ Ithaca Genealogy Library