William
Cole
Emmit
Born in Emmitsburg, Frederick, Maryland, United States
Ancestors 
Son of William Emmit
and Henrietta (Coale) Emmit
Brother of
Elizabeth (Emmit) Tawney [half]
Husband of
Rebecca (Stokes) Emmit
— married
about 1825 in North Carolina, United States
Died
at about age 63
in Tennessee, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 1 Nov 2019
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Biography
Son of William Emmit and Henrietta Coale.
Husband of Rebecca Stokes, daughter of a North Carolina governor.
North Carolina marriage records for Wilkes, North Carolina, show a marriage bond between William C. Emmit and Rebecca C. Stokes on 21 Jun 1820. (Source: Ancestry)
1830 Census, Wilkes County, North Carolina: William C. Emmit, one male aged 30-40, one female aged 20-30.[1]
Aged 49, unmarried, in 1850.[2]
After his first wife died, William married a widow named Taylor and moved to Tennessee where he died in 1863.
He had no children by either marriage.
Sources
- ↑ "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHPV-JFQ : 19 August 2017), William C Emmitt, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States; citing 348, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 125; FHL microfilm 18,091.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4BG-MN2 : 12 April 2016), William C Emmet, Wilkes county, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States; citing family 430, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHLT-SSX : accessed 1 November 2019), William C Emmit, Rutherford, Rutherford, Tennessee, United States; citing p. 141, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 124; FHL microfilm 193,686.
- North Carolina, State Supreme Court Case Files, 1800-1909, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1B-B2TT : 7 January 2016), William C Emmit, Dec 1851; citing Probate, , North Carolina, United States, Division of Archives and History, North Carolina State Archive, Raleigh; FamilySearch digital folder 004751119.
- "An Emmit Returns to Emmitsburg," Emmitsburg Dispatch, 21 Aug 2008 page 1
http://www.emmitsburgchronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20080821.pdf
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