SHOEMAKER, Emmit 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Other names for Emmit were Emerit, Emmet, Emit and Euceil. Emmit married Joseph G. or H. HOLROYD, son of Unknown and Sarah HOLROYD, on 10 May 1843 in Mt. Carroll, Carroll County, Illinois.1 (Joseph G. or H. HOLROYD was born in 1821 in Washington, DC and died after 1880 in Prob. Eagle Point, Ogle County, Illinois.) |
1 Illinois Marriages (Carroll County Court, Carroll County, Illinois). Surety: 4. Records a marriage between Holroyd, Joseph H. and Shoemaker, Emit on 10 May 1843.
2 Illinois Marriages to 1850 (Illinois Vital Records, Carroll County, Illinois). Surety: 4. Holroyd, Joseph H. to Shoemaker, Emit
3 1850 US Census (Mill Creek, Jo Daviess County, Illinois). Repository: Ancestry. Surety: 4. Lists Joseph Holroyd [sp. Hallroid] (age 29, b. D. Columbia), wife Emmit [Shoemaker] (age 24, b. IN) and children Jerome (age 3, b. IL), Milton (age 1, b. IA) and Emmeline (age 4 mos, b. IL), living in Mill Creek, Illinois. Joseph is listed as a "farmer." Also in the household is Emmit's brother, William Shoemaker (age 17, b. IA), who is listed as a "laborer."
4 1860 US Census (Lancaster, Grant County, Wisconsin). Repository: Ancestry. Surety: 4. Lists Joseph Holroyd (age 39, b. Maryland), wife Emmit [spelled Emet] (age 39, b. IN) and children Jerome (age 13, b. IL), Emmeline (age 10, b. IA), Alvina [Ervilla] (age 8, b. IL), Javilla (age 7, b. IL), Homer (age 5, b. WI) and Alice C. (age 3, b. WI), living in Lancaster, Wisconsin. Joseph is listed as a "farmer."
5 1870 US Census (Loran, Stephenson County, Illinois). Repository: Ancestry. Surety: 4. Lists Jerome B. Holroyd (age 22, b. IL) [as head of household], parents Joseph G. Holroyd (age 49, b. Wash, DC), wife Emit [spelled Emerit] (age 49, b. IN), and siblings Evilla [Ervilla] (age 17, b. IL), Homer M. (age 15, b. WI) and Allice (age 13, b. WI), living in Loran, Illinois. Jerome B. and Joseph G. are listed as "farmers." Living a few houses away is Emit's sister, Margaret [Shoemaker] Grigsby, and her family.
6 1880 US Census (Eagle Point, Ogle County, Illinois). Repository: Ancestry. Surety: 4. Lists Joseph Holroyd [spelled Halroyd] (age 59, b. D.C.) wife Emmet [Shoemaker] (age 59, b. IN), and son Homer M. (age 24, b. WI), living in Eagle Point, Illinois. Joseph is listed as a "laborer," and indicates that both of his parents were born in England. Emmet indicates that her father was born in New Jersey and her mother in Indiana. Living next door is their son, Jerome Holroyd, and his family.
7 1855 Wisconsin State Census (Lancaster, Grant County, Wisconsin). Repository: Ancestry. Surety: 4. Lists Joseph Holroyd and his family, living in Lancaster, Wisconsin.
8 1840 US Census (Honey Creek, Vigo County, Indiana). Repository: Ancestry. Surety: 3. Lists John [spelled Jno, for Jonathon] Shoemaker (age 30-40, b. 1800-1810), wife (age 30-40, b. 1800-1810) and children 2 males (age 5-10, b. 1830-1835), 1 male (age 10-15, b. 1825-1830), 1 female (age <5, b. 1835-1840), 1 female (age 5-10, b. 1830-1835), 1 female (age 10-15, b. 1825-1830) and 2 females (age 15-20, b. 1820-1825), living in Honey Creek, Indiana. This information lines up well with the family members we know of. There are three additional children on this census that we do not yet have information on. Numerous relatives of this family are also living in Honey Creek at this time, including John's aunt, Mary Curry Clem. The name Jonathon is likely this man's correct given name, as his grandfather was Jonathon Long.
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