Born in Logan County, West Virginia, USA
Ancestors 
Daughter of Riley Spry Sr
and Grace Marie (Ring) Vance
Sister of
[private sister (unknown - unknown)] [half], [private brother (unknown - unknown)] [half], Jimmy Spry [half], Zachary Spry [half], Helen Marie (Spry) Toppings, Billy Joe Spry [half], Barbara Ann (Spry) Perry [half], Riley Spry Jr [half] and [private sister (1940s - unknown)] [half]
Wife of
Spencer Toppings
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Wife of
Cush Vance
— married
24 Feb 1945 (to 1945) in Logan County, West Virginia, United States
Descendants 
Mother of
Richard Allen Toppings, [private son (1940s - unknown)], Paris Jennings Toppings, Tennis Foy Toppings and Maxine Marie Toppings
Died
at age 57
in Huntington, Cabell, WV, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 29 Jul 2016
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Biography
1. Emma Mae Spry was born in Logan County, West Virginia to Riley Spry and Grace Ring. She was born February 10, 1929. In 1945 she married her first husband, Cush Vance, in Logan, West Virginia. She was 18 yrs old.[1]
2. In about 1947 Mae married her second husband Spencer Toppings in Lincoln County, West Virginia. Spencer and Mae had 5 children together and only one boy lived. She passed away in 1981 and was buried in Pack Cemetery at Atenville, West Virginia.[2]
Sources
- "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FRNF-156 : 4 December 2014), Cush Vance and Mae Spry, 1945; citing Logan, West Virginia, United States, , county clerks, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 571,287.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Emma by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Emma:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Emma by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Emma:
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~25.00%
~25.00%
Betty Toppings 
:
23andMe, GEDmatch M262537 [compare]
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~0.78%
Lynn Willard :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member betywillard_1
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~0.39%
Jacqueline (Chapman) Williams :
AncestryDNA, yourDNAportal JACf09d8d6c, Ancestry member jacquelinechapmanwilliams
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