BURKE COUNTY, GA - Bios  Emery Lasseter

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Emery Lasseter, was born November 7, 1778 (place
unknown) and died February 4, 1813.  This information
was from a Lasseter family Bible.[Bible of  (Harold)
Tonge Bird greatgrandson of Emery Lasseter]

The Bible   records also shows that Emery had a
brother, Amos and a sister, Nancy. Their father was
Emory Lasseter. 

Emery married Mary Bell Jourdan about 1800.  She was
born December 25, 1783, and died August 4, 1873 in
Attapulgus, Decatur County, GA.

An article in an 1807 Augusta Chronicle states that
Emery Lasseter was a jailor in Burke County.

Emery and Mary are found in the census records for
1810, living in Waynesboro, Burke County, GA.  Also in
the 1810 census was a Edward Lasseter, a Lemuel
Lasseter and a William Lasseter.  

Emery and Mary's children were Ann Caroline Lasseter,
b. Dec. 21, 1806, John Lasseter, Born Nov. 9, 1808,
Martha Ann Lasseter, born Feb. 4, 1810, and Emery
Lasseter, born Jan. 26, 1812.  All these children were
born in Burke County, GA.  The 1820 census lists Mary
as head of household.  Other heads of household in this
census were Edward Lasseter, Lemuel Lasseter and
William Lasseter.  

Mary subsequently moved her family to Attapulgus,
Decatur County, GA where she raised her family.  She
never remarried.

According to family tradition, the immigrant Lasseter
came to South Carolina with Lafayette.  I have not been
able to confirm this, looking at the names of
individuals on Lafayette's ship which arrived in
Charleston in the 1770s (I can't remember the exact
date.)