Andrew Eli Emery (1870 - 1942)

Born 4 Apr 1870 in Ft. Scott, Bourbon Co., Kansas

Ancestors

Died 7 Aug 1942 at age 72 in Grandview, Missouri

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Biography

Burial: 12 Aug 1942. Forest Hill Cem, Kansas City, Missouri.

Notes

Name, birth: 1875 Census for Kansas, Ft. Scott, Bourbon Co.

Death: Death Certificate, Missouri State Board of Health. Cause of death is listed as silicosis.

At the time of death, Andrew lived at 118th and Grandview Road, Grandview, Mo., with his wife Cora A.

The 1900 census lists Andrew "H" Emery in Kansas City as a stonecutter of slate and marble. Verna Gail Johnson, a researcher at the Jackson County Genealogical Society in Independence, MO, says that "Andrew E. Emery is listed in 1920 as living at 4240 Euclid Ave" in Kansas City, MO, "and employed at the M. H. Rice Monument Co.".

The 1930 Census, dated April 23, 1930, for Washington Township, Jackson County, Missouri shows:

Andrew E. Emery, age 61, born in Kansas, father and mother both born in Pennsylvania. Age at first marriage: 24. That would give him a marriage year of 1894.

Obituary from Kansas City Star, August 7, 1942:

"ANDREW E. EMERY DIES.

Andrew Eli "Andy" Emery, 73 years old, a retired stone cutter, died today at his home, One Hundred Eighteenth street and Grandview road. Mr. Emery was born at Fort Scott, Kansas, the son of a stonecutter, and had followed the same craft since he was 16 years old.

He had been a resident here more than forty years. He retired two years ago after many years at the Rice Monument Company. He was a member of St. Catherine's church.

Mr. Emery leaves his wife, Mrs. Cora A. Emery of the home; a stepson, John R. Campbell, Orchard, Colorado, and a sister, Mrs. Effie Marvin, 429 Brighton Avenue." (Obituary and newspaper reference from research by Joan Riddle Giles.) (Funeral services were held at the Stine McClure Funeral Chapel, 3235 Gillham Plaza, Kansas City, MO, on Wednesday, August 12, at 3:30 p.m.).

Andrew's child, Fred Vian Emery, was the result of a liaison with Ella Myrtle Baker.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCJF-VVP : 24 May 2021), Andrew E Emery in entry for Cyrus B Emery, 1870.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFPV-X3W : 19 February 2021), Andrew E Emery in household of Cyrus Emery, Fort Scott, Bourbon, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district ED 26, sheet 206C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,373.
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3C1-NRC : accessed 3 October 2021), Andrew Emery, Precinct 1 Kansas City Ward 5, Jackson, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 43, sheet 10B, family 229, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,861.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2YN-N3N : accessed 3 October 2021), Andrew Emery, Kansas Ward 13, Jackson, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 171, sheet 7A, family 161, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 788; FHL microfilm 1,374,801.
• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8HP-C9Z : 2 February 2021), Andrew E Emery, 1920.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHFN-XFK : accessed 3 October 2021), Andrew E Emery, Washington, Jackson, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 283, sheet 21A, line 39, family 119, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1204; FHL microfilm 2,340,939.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7QP-9MK : 7 May 2020), Andrew E Emery, Washington Township, Jackson, Jackson, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 48-52, sheet 8A, line 29, family 166, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2116.
• Newspaper obituary, Kansas City Star, Aug 7, 1942