Emmons - Joseph
JOSEPH EMMONS
Source (plus extra information I found - kbz) -- Zach, Karen Bazzani. Montgomery Medicine Men. Crawfordsville, Indiana: Montgomery County Historical Society, 2002.
Active members of the Friend's Church, Joseph and Mary Emmons, along with their oldest child, Alden (who later became a jeweler in Crawfordsville), moved to the Garfield area in late Septembr of 1846 from Goshen, Ohio. While living in Montgomery County, the couple added daughters Rebecca and Eudora and sons David and Cassius before leaving the area in March of 1874 (Hinshaw Quaker Records) to return to Chesterfield, Ohio. Rebecca and Eudora were graduates of Earlham College and returned for awhile to teach in Montgomery County. Alden was also a graduate of Earlham. Their children scattered after their parents died in Morgan County, buried in Chesterhilld Quaker Cemetery (Ohio), he passing away on the 18th day of January in 1886, age 65, Mary dying September 24th, the same year age 68. They do not have a stone but are in records stating such burial. The good doctor also farmed while in Montgomery County for his close to 30 years having amassed $9,000 worth of real estate in the 1870 census. Adding his medical profession it seems obvious he was an extremely energtic, vigorous man.