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OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 68

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  #1 bio: Emerick, William C. - Montgom   [christina m hursh <frog158@juno.co]

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Subject: bio:  Emerick, William C. - Montgomery county
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"The History of Montgomery County, Ohio." by W. H. Beers & Co., pub. 1882
page 283 & 284    

German Township

    William C. Emerick, retired merchant, Sunsbury, one of the pioneers
of
Montgomery County, emigrated to Ohio, coming with his parents,
Christopher
and Catherine (Kern) Emerick, natives of Pennsylvania, from that State in
1804.
The parents died, the father in 1837, and mother in 1836; was born in
Berks
County, Penn., June 29, 1794.  In 1820, Mr. Emerick was united in
marriage with
Sarah, daughter of Daniel and Catharine (Shuey) Gunckle, who were also 
pioneers of this vicinity, emigrating from Pennsylvania in the year 1811.
 Both
were natives of Daauphin County, Penn.  The mother died in 1832, and the
father
in 1837.  Sarah, the wife of our subject, was born July 1, 1801, and
became the 
mother of eleven children-Isreal (born May 24, 1821), Catherine (born
December
3, 1822), William D. (born February--, 1826, Levi (born May 1, 1828),
Elizabeth (born September 25, 1830), Jacob (born October 17, 1832), David
(born
November 15, 1834), Harrison (born May 7, 1837), Daniel (born February
26, 
1840), Mariah (born March 17, 1842), and Henry, (born August 23, 1844);
of whom
six sons and one daughter are living, and all are married except one son.
 This
pioneer couple are the grandparents of twenty-eight, and
great-grandparents
of sixteen children.  Mr. Emerick has followed a variety of vocations in
life, having learned he shoemaker's trade and followed it some twenty
years, 
then butchered a number of years, when he became a merchant, continuing
life.
In 1835, he was chosen a Justice of the Peace, in which capacity he acted
for fifteen years.  He also filled various other township offices, among
which were School Director, Clerk and Trustee.  Mr. Emerick has been a 
life-long member of the Lutheran Church, his wife adhering to the United
Brethren denomination.


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