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Thursday, September 18, 2014

EMILY WIGHT’S 1st MARRIAGE, 52 Ancestors 52 Weeks


Great Grandmother Emily Wight married her 1st husband Ellsworth Taylor Sept. 24, 1887 in Goshen, Orange Co., New York. They were married by the Pastor Thomas LaMonte of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Certificate of Marriage Ellsworth Taylor and Emily Wight Sept. 27, 1887

Certificate of Marriage
Ellsworth Taylor & Emily Wight
Sept. 24, 1887

State of New York Return of a Marriage Ellsworth Taylor and Emily Wight

State of New York
Return of a Marriage

Emily and Ellsworth were both Slate Hill, New York residents (Slate Hill is in the Town of Wawayanda) and were married in the parsonage of the Goshen Methodist Episcopal Church. Emily was the daughter of Richard Wight and Emily Brundage and lived with her Brundage grandparents after her mother died in 1873. As a matter of fact, her grandmother Phebe Maria (Kimber) Brundage had died 5 months before her marriage. You can see from the ‘Return of a Marriage’ above, Emily was just 17 years old when she married. Ellsworth was 28 years old, a farmer and the son of David Taylor and Mary E. Turner.

Wilmot E. Taylor, Ellsworth’s brother, and Eleanor Wight, Emily’s sister, served as witnesses to the marriage. Pastor LaMonte was busy that evening as Wilmot E. Taylor and Eleanor Wight were also married in the parsonage with Ellsworth and Emily witnessing their marriage.




Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Tombstone Tuesday: James Clyde Clemmer and Ella Virginia White, Augusta Co., VA


CLEMMER
J. Clyde
1875-1928
Ella V.
His Wife
1881-1961

Great Grandparents James Clyde Clemmer and Ella Virginia White rest in Hebron Cemetery, Hebron, Augusta Co., Virginia. Their tombstone photograph can be located on FindAGrave.com (photo taken by David Simpson).

Please see an earlier post I published about James Clyde on this blog.


Click below for a post about Ella Virginia.