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Descendants of Henry R. H. Emery Generation No. 1 1. HENRY R. H.1 EMERY1,2,3,4 was born March 22, 1816 in Woodend Farm, Staffordshire, England5,6,7,8,9, and died September 11, 1894 in Whetstone, Gregory County, South Dakota10,11,12. He married SUSAN A. BROWN13,14,15 February 12, 1849 in New Jersey16,17. She was born December 23, 1829 in Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey18,19,20,21, and died May 05, 1897 in Valentine, Cherry County, Nebraska22,23,24. Notes for HENRY R. H. EMERY: From "The Saga of Sully Flats," by Adeline S. Gnirk, published 1977, by Gregory Times-Advocate, Gregory, South Dakota, page 159-160. Henry R. H. (1816-1894) immigrated from Woods Ends Farm, Straffordshire, England and settled in New Jersey. Here he met Susan A. (1829-1897) and they were married February 12, 1849. Henry R. H. and Susan Emery moved to Muskegan, Michigan and here 5 more children were born to them, Robert H. being the 7th child. In 1882 the Emery family moved to the Rosebud country, Dakota Territory. Henry R. H. Emery set up headquarters in the southern part of Section 31, named Emery Township. The home was located on the south bank of the south fork of Whetstone Creek, Miyogli Wakpala. This is Indian for Whetstone Creek. The Emery Cemetery was established to the northwest of the section. Northwest of the Emery land was built the Emery school in Emery District. Henry R. H. Emery had built his own American domain; home, cemetery, and school, with his cattle roaming Emery Township. Henry R. H. Emery was born March 22, 1816 on Woods End Farm in Straffordshire, England. He was a young man when he immigrated to the United States in a sail boat, settling in Newton, New Jersey. There he met his wife, Susan, who was born December 23, 1829 in Newton, New Jersey. They were married February 12, 1849 and journeyed to Muskegan, Michigan to make their residence. Five children were born to them there: William, Harriet, George W., James H. and Martha L. The family departed from Michigan in 1859 seeking adventure in the new Dakota Territory. In 1860 they secured a homestead in Bon Homme County. In 1862 they were issued a deed to the property (the homestead is now underwater). Holbert, Robert H., Henrietta, Alice and Henry came to join their five sisters and brothers, increasing the family to ten children. In the 1882, preceding the pioneers to the new frontier, they followed the wagon trails to the Rosebud Country, then the Sioux Indian Reservation. Henry and Susan chose their headquarters in Section 31, Emery Township, which later became Lucas Township: The Emery ranch was situated in the lower southwest portion of the section, beside the south bank of the south fork on the Whetstone Creek, or Miyogli Wakpala in Indian, on the Sully Flats. Diagonally in the very northwest corner of the section lies the Emery Cemetery. Five graves, possibly seven, are to be observed currently in this burial plot: the patriarch himself - Henry R. H. Emery; mother Susan A., wife of Henry; their grandson, Amos A. - January 17, 1895-March 25, 1895, son of William and Addie Emery; Cecil Blanche Durfee, 1870-1898, daughter of Uriah T. and Belle G. Duncan; Maurice A. November 19, 1901-January 6, 1902, son of George and Maggie Pete. The Emery school was established for the children in the very northeast corner of the Emery land, later known as the Frank A. Servine quarter, in the Emery Township. Church was held in the homes by a traveling priest or later the priest from the St. Francis Mission in Todd County. Neighbors to the young adventurous Emerys were the Dimonds, Dions, Reynolds, Sullys and Turgeons, who had also ventured early to this last great frontier. Here they established homes, schools, and cemeteries. They grazed their cattle and horses on the rolling prairies of the Sully Flats, with an abundant water supply in the Whetstone Creek and the Missouri River, they had chosen wisely and well. Henry R. H. Emery had been an ambitious farsighted Englishman. He had set up his headquarters to known as the Emery ranch; a school for his children to be referred to as the Emery School, and the Emery Cemetery in Emery Township. The Emery Domain, from the old country to the new country, was now well established with descendants to carry on. Henry enjoyed his sovereignty for twelve short years. September 11, 1894 he was dead. The head of this family had every right to christen the Emery Cemetery. Three years later his wife, Susan A. died May 5, 1897, to be buried on a gentle slope of a hill facing the setting sun, across the Miyogli Wakpala beside her husband. Their children were not buried in the Emery Cemetery at their deaths. Henry and Susan, unfortunately, never lived to see the opening of Gregory County west. Fairfax, barely two years old, followed shortly by Bonesteel were merely trading posts to the new Gregory County. These were the 1 only towns in existence except for trading posts, the Papin Brothers Trading Post, Whetstone Landing, Porter's Landing, Fort Randall, and Trudeau's Trading Post near Fort Randall. William, Henry's eldest son, assumed the work load of the Emery ranch operation for ten years. However, when Burke was established in 1904 William sold the ranch to William Richtor and moved into the new inland town site. _______________________________________________________________ From "Saga of the Missouri River Reveille," by Adeline S. Gnirk, published 1981, by Gregory Times- Advocate, Gregory, South Dakota, page 313-314. Henry R. H. Emery was born March 22, 1816 in Woods End Farm, Straffordshire, England and died September 11, 1894 on his ranch north of Burke, South Dakota on the Sully Flats. Susan A. Emery was born December 23, 1829 at Newton, New Jersey and died May 5, 1897 at Valentine, Nebraska. The Emerys came to the Sully Flats on section 31, Lucas Township, Gregory County, Dakota Territory in 1882 from Bon Homme County, Dakota Territory where they had homesteaded in 1860. Henry R. H. Emery set up the Emery domain on the Sully Flats which consisted of the Emery log cabin headquarters and ranch, the Emery School District and schoolhouse, and the Emery Cemetery in Emery Township. (Later the township was renamed Lucas). Henry R. H. Emery 1816-1894 was buried in the Emery Cemetery as were - Mother Susan A. Emery 1829-1897; Cecil Blanche Durfee 1870-1898, wife of Thomas Durfee; and Maurice A. Pete 1901-1902, son of George and Maggie Pete (with markers). Henry R. H. and Susan A. Emery had ten living children: William, Harriet, George, James H., Martha, Hulbert, Robert H., Henrietta, Alice and Henry Jr. ___________________________________________________________________ The 1880 Federal Census of Township 93, Range 59, Bon Homme County, Dakota Territory, page 107A, lists him as age 64, born in England, both parents born in England, occupation: farmer. The South Dakota Territorial Census of 1885 for Charles Mix County has him listed as age 67, race: white, birth place: England. More About HENRY R. H. EMERY: Date born 2: 1818, England25 Date born 3: 1820, England Burial: Emery Cemetery, Gregory County, South Dakota26,27 Census: 1850, Rockaway Township, Morris County, New Jersey, page 316 Census 2: 1860, Chesaning, Saginaw County, Michigan, page 531 Census 3: 1870, Bon Homme County, Dakota Territory, page 1 Census 4: 1880, Township 93, Range 59, Bon Homme County, Dakota Territory, page 107 Census 5: 1885, Charles Mix County, Dakota Territory Land Patent: January 15, 1856, Saginaw County, Michigan, 120 Acres28 Land Patent 2: January 15, 1856, Saginaw County, Michigan, 80 Acres29 Land Patent 3: January 15, 1856, Saginaw County, Michigan, 37.4 Acres30 Occupation: 1850, Boatman Occupation 2: Bet. 1860 - 1880, Farmer31 Value of Pers. Estate: 1860, $150 Value of Pers. Estate 2: 1870, $270032 Value of Real Estate: 1860, $1000 Notes for SUSAN A. BROWN: The 1880 Federal Census of Township 93, Range 59, Bon Homme County, Dakota Territory, page 107A, lists her as age 54, born in New Jersey, both parents born in New Jersey, occupation: keeping house. The South Dakota Territorial Census of 1885 for Charles Mix County has her listed as age 57, race: white, born in New Jersey. More About SUSAN A. BROWN: Date born 2: 1826, New Jersey33 Date born 3: 1828, New York34 Burial: Emery Cemetery, Gregory County, South Dakota35,36 Census: 1850, Rockaway Township, Morris County, New Jersey, page 316 2 Census 2: 1860, Chesaning, Saginaw County, Michigan, page 531 Census 3: 1870, Bon Homme County, Dakota Territory, page 1 Census 4: 1880, Township 93, Range 59, Bon Homme County, Dakota Territory, page 107 Census 5: 1885, Charles Mix County, Dakota Territory More About HENRY EMERY and SUSAN BROWN: Marriage: February 12, 1849, New Jersey37,38 Children of HENRY EMERY and SUSAN BROWN are: 2. i. WILLIAM ZENIL2 EMERY, b. July 03, 1850, Rockaway Township, Morris County, New Jersey; d. January 11, 1916, Burke, Gregory County, South Dakota. 3. ii. HARRIET A. "HATTIE" EMERY, b. September 04, 1852, New Jersey; d. March 10, 1916, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon. iii. GEORGE W. EMERY39,40,41, b. September 09, 1857, Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michigan42,43,44,45; d. Aft. 1920; m. (1) JULIA FANNIE SNANAJINWIN CAMPBELL, February 18, 1893, Church of Our Most Merciful Saviour, Santee, Knox County, Nebraska46,47; b. April 1875, Nebraska48; d. Abt. 1912; m. (2) ANNA R. HALE, October 09, 1915, Tyndall, Bon Homme County, South Dakota49; b. 1866, South Dakota49; d. Aft. 1920. Notes for GEORGE W.