Emily was born in 1816 in Stowe, Vermont, and died in 1851, after moving from Ohio to Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois, and having two children with husband Charles Cumings, an abolitionist and Methodist Minister. They had been married in 1838 in Unionville, Union, Ohio, registered in nearby Ashtabula, Ohio[1] Both cities were active stops on the Underground Railroad, protecting escaped slaves from slavecatchers as they awaited their ships to freedom in Ontario on the far side of Lake Erie. After Emily's young death, Charles moved the family back to Ohio, and later remarried Rebecca Sullivan, their longtime nanny/ housekeeper/ maid, which was common practice at the time. The family occupied a farm in Lake County, Ohio, and Charles continued his ministry until it was affected by his failing eyesight, but he remained an active church leader for life.
Research Notes
Note: 'Charles Cumings and Emily Amsden were married March 29, 1838 in the Woodworth house in Unionville, Ohio. We have picture of Uncle Woodworth house taken by E.R. Cumings, August 1905. (Note from unidentified GEDcom contributor.)
Emily Amsden is descended from several Revolutionary War veterans, and her son Henry Harrison Cumings would serve with distinction in the American Civil War.
Sources
↑ "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XD72-2ZF : 10 December 2017), Charles Cummings[SIC] and Emily Jomsden [SIC-Image clearly shows Amsden], 29 Mar 1838; citing Marriage, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States, P 235 No 2205, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
John W. Jordan, L.L.D, ed, "Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania, p. 301 (New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1913) Online Free ebook on Play.Google.Com. Accessed March 25 2019. [1]
Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 01 March 2019), memorial page for Emily Amsden Cumings (17 Jun 1816–14 Aug 1851), Find A Grave Memorial no. 52074042, citing Pioneer Cemetery, Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois, USA ; Maintained by Pat (contributor 47170093)
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M857-S6W : 12 April 2016), Emily Cummings in household of Charles Cummings, Warren county, Warren, Illinois, United States; citing family 1073, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Emily 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 Emily: