Gerald Edgar Emmert was born on September 6, 1921, in Nachusa Township, Lee County, Illinois, to Myrtle Herbst, age 30, and Wilbur H. Emmert, age 30. Unlike the large families of many of his cousins scattered around Illinois, Gerald was evidently an only child.
THE EMMERTS OF MARYLAND
Gerald's branch of the Emmert family tree came to America from Bavaria in 1732 when his 5th great-grandfather, Johann Jorg Friedrich "George" Emmert (1718-1796), stepped off the ship Loyal Judith in colonial Philadelphia. George and his wife, Eve Maria Graff, became naturalized British subjects in 1751, but then disavowed the king in 1778 when George took the Oath of Allegiance to the State of Pennsylvania before Judge Peter Spycker in Berks County.
George's son was Leonard Emmert, a beloved "Old Pathfinder" of the Brethren church. Leonard was born to George and Eve Maria in Bethel Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America in about 1745. He served as a militiaman in the Revolutionary War before converting from Lutheranism and moving his family to Washington County, Maryland, in 1798. Leonard's impact on the growth of the Church of the Brethren would reverberate down through the generations, and would reach into Illinois, Wisconsin, and even overseas to India and Denmark.
Leonard Emmert was Gerald's 4th-great grandfather. In the generations following Leonard's death in 1804, many members of the family emigrated to Illinois in the 1840s, then to Iowa in the 1860s and 1870s, most of them carrying the Church of the Brethren west with them. That is how Gerald came to be born in Illinois.
A LIFE LIVED
Gerald grew up on a family farm, but his father seems to have rented rather than owned land. The years during the Great Depression may have been specially lean for a grocery farmer like Wilbur Emmert with so many cash-poor neighbors.
The 20-year-old registered for the draft February 16, 1942. He reported that he was employed by the Illinois Northern Utilities Co., but we do not know in what capacity. He had not reported any employment to the 1940 census enumerator.
Despite the strong pacifist sentiments of his Brethren ancestors, Gerald enlisted in the U.S. Army on July 13, 1942, in Chicago. Gerald had far surpassed the educational attainments of his parents, having completed two years of college. We do not know his Army unit, nor the nature or length of his wartime service.
Gerald married Marilyn Betty Hoyle on May, 17 1947 in Dixon, Lee County, Illinois. The couple would make their home in that town as well.
A 1949 city directory showed that Gerald and Marilyn lived at 1703 West 2nd in Dixon, and that Gerald was employed as a clerk with "INU Co." (possibly meaning an insurance company?).
The couple had a daughter, Janice Louise, born on April 25, 1954. However, the baby died three days later, and there was evidently not another attempt.
Gerald's father Wilbur, passed away on August 1, 1956, in Alameda, California, at the age of 65. We do not know why he was in California. His mother, Myrtle, passed away two years later in Dixon, Illinois, at the age of 67.
Gerald died in January 1966 in Dixon, Illinois, when he was just 44 years old. His remains were committed to the earth in the Emmert Cemetery in Nachusa Township near his baby daughter, his parents, and many other kinfolk.
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Researched and written by: P. A. White, Esq.
© 2018-2021 – All Rights Reserved
Subject's relation to author: 5th cousin
See also https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GQYY-D6F
THE EMMERTS OF MARYLAND
Gerald's branch of the Emmert family tree came to America from Bavaria in 1732 when his 5th great-grandfather, Johann Jorg Friedrich "George" Emmert (1718-1796), stepped off the ship Loyal Judith in colonial Philadelphia. George and his wife, Eve Maria Graff, became naturalized British subjects in 1751, but then disavowed the king in 1778 when George took the Oath of Allegiance to the State of Pennsylvania before Judge Peter Spycker in Berks County.
George's son was Leonard Emmert, a beloved "Old Pathfinder" of the Brethren church. Leonard was born to George and Eve Maria in Bethel Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America in about 1745. He served as a militiaman in the Revolutionary War before converting from Lutheranism and moving his family to Washington County, Maryland, in 1798. Leonard's impact on the growth of the Church of the Brethren would reverberate down through the generations, and would reach into Illinois, Wisconsin, and even overseas to India and Denmark.
Leonard Emmert was Gerald's 4th-great grandfather. In the generations following Leonard's death in 1804, many members of the family emigrated to Illinois in the 1840s, then to Iowa in the 1860s and 1870s, most of them carrying the Church of the Brethren west with them. That is how Gerald came to be born in Illinois.
A LIFE LIVED
Gerald grew up on a family farm, but his father seems to have rented rather than owned land. The years during the Great Depression may have been specially lean for a grocery farmer like Wilbur Emmert with so many cash-poor neighbors.
The 20-year-old registered for the draft February 16, 1942. He reported that he was employed by the Illinois Northern Utilities Co., but we do not know in what capacity. He had not reported any employment to the 1940 census enumerator.
Despite the strong pacifist sentiments of his Brethren ancestors, Gerald enlisted in the U.S. Army on July 13, 1942, in Chicago. Gerald had far surpassed the educational attainments of his parents, having completed two years of college. We do not know his Army unit, nor the nature or length of his wartime service.
Gerald married Marilyn Betty Hoyle on May, 17 1947 in Dixon, Lee County, Illinois. The couple would make their home in that town as well.
A 1949 city directory showed that Gerald and Marilyn lived at 1703 West 2nd in Dixon, and that Gerald was employed as a clerk with "INU Co." (possibly meaning an insurance company?).
The couple had a daughter, Janice Louise, born on April 25, 1954. However, the baby died three days later, and there was evidently not another attempt.
Gerald's father Wilbur, passed away on August 1, 1956, in Alameda, California, at the age of 65. We do not know why he was in California. His mother, Myrtle, passed away two years later in Dixon, Illinois, at the age of 67.
Gerald died in January 1966 in Dixon, Illinois, when he was just 44 years old. His remains were committed to the earth in the Emmert Cemetery in Nachusa Township near his baby daughter, his parents, and many other kinfolk.
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Researched and written by: P. A. White, Esq.
© 2018-2021 – All Rights Reserved
Subject's relation to author: 5th cousin
See also https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GQYY-D6F
Gerald Edgar Emmert was born on September 6, 1921, in Nachusa Township, Lee County, Illinois, to Myrtle Herbst, age 30, and Wilbur H. Emmert, age 30. Unlike the large families of many of his cousins scattered around Illinois, Gerald was evidently an only child.
THE EMMERTS OF MARYLAND
Gerald's branch of the Emmert family tree came to America from Bavaria in 1732 when his 5th great-grandfather, Johann Jorg Friedrich "George" Emmert (1718-1796), stepped off the ship Loyal Judith in colonial Philadelphia. George and his wife, Eve Maria Graff, became naturalized British subjects in 1751, but then disavowed the king in 1778 when George took the Oath of Allegiance to the State of Pennsylvania before Judge Peter Spycker in Berks County.
George's son was Leonard Emmert, a beloved "Old Pathfinder" of the Brethren church. Leonard was born to George and Eve Maria in Bethel Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America in about 1745. He served as a militiaman in the Revolutionary War before converting from Lutheranism and moving his family to Washington County, Maryland, in 1798. Leonard's impact on the growth of the Church of the Brethren would reverberate down through the generations, and would reach into Illinois, Wisconsin, and even overseas to India and Denmark.
Leonard Emmert was Gerald's 4th-great grandfather. In the generations following Leonard's death in 1804, many members of the family emigrated to Illinois in the 1840s, then to Iowa in the 1860s and 1870s, most of them carrying the Church of the Brethren west with them. That is how Gerald came to be born in Illinois.
A LIFE LIVED
Gerald grew up on a family farm, but his father seems to have rented rather than owned land. The years during the Great Depression may have been specially lean for a grocery farmer like Wilbur Emmert with so many cash-poor neighbors.
The 20-year-old registered for the draft February 16, 1942. He reported that he was employed by the Illinois Northern Utilities Co., but we do not know in what capacity. He had not reported any employment to the 1940 census enumerator.
Despite the strong pacifist sentiments of his Brethren ancestors, Gerald enlisted in the U.S. Army on July 13, 1942, in Chicago. Gerald had far surpassed the educational attainments of his parents, having completed two years of college. We do not know his Army unit, nor the nature or length of his wartime service.
Gerald married Marilyn Betty Hoyle on May, 17 1947 in Dixon, Lee County, Illinois. The couple would make their home in that town as well.
A 1949 city directory showed that Gerald and Marilyn lived at 1703 West 2nd in Dixon, and that Gerald was employed as a clerk with "INU Co." (possibly meaning an insurance company?).
The couple had a daughter, Janice Louise, born on April 25, 1954. However, the baby died three days later, and there was evidently not another attempt.
Gerald's father Wilbur, passed away on August 1, 1956, in Alameda, California, at the age of 65. We do not know why he was in California. His mother, Myrtle, passed away two years later in Dixon, Illinois, at the age of 67.
Gerald died in January 1966 in Dixon, Illinois, when he was just 44 years old. His remains were committed to the earth in the Emmert Cemetery in Nachusa Township near his baby daughter, his parents, and many other kinfolk.
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Researched and written by: P. A. White, Esq.
© 2018-2021 – All Rights Reserved
Subject's relation to author: 5th cousin
See also https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GQYY-D6F
THE EMMERTS OF MARYLAND
Gerald's branch of the Emmert family tree came to America from Bavaria in 1732 when his 5th great-grandfather, Johann Jorg Friedrich "George" Emmert (1718-1796), stepped off the ship Loyal Judith in colonial Philadelphia. George and his wife, Eve Maria Graff, became naturalized British subjects in 1751, but then disavowed the king in 1778 when George took the Oath of Allegiance to the State of Pennsylvania before Judge Peter Spycker in Berks County.
George's son was Leonard Emmert, a beloved "Old Pathfinder" of the Brethren church. Leonard was born to George and Eve Maria in Bethel Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America in about 1745. He served as a militiaman in the Revolutionary War before converting from Lutheranism and moving his family to Washington County, Maryland, in 1798. Leonard's impact on the growth of the Church of the Brethren would reverberate down through the generations, and would reach into Illinois, Wisconsin, and even overseas to India and Denmark.
Leonard Emmert was Gerald's 4th-great grandfather. In the generations following Leonard's death in 1804, many members of the family emigrated to Illinois in the 1840s, then to Iowa in the 1860s and 1870s, most of them carrying the Church of the Brethren west with them. That is how Gerald came to be born in Illinois.
A LIFE LIVED
Gerald grew up on a family farm, but his father seems to have rented rather than owned land. The years during the Great Depression may have been specially lean for a grocery farmer like Wilbur Emmert with so many cash-poor neighbors.
The 20-year-old registered for the draft February 16, 1942. He reported that he was employed by the Illinois Northern Utilities Co., but we do not know in what capacity. He had not reported any employment to the 1940 census enumerator.
Despite the strong pacifist sentiments of his Brethren ancestors, Gerald enlisted in the U.S. Army on July 13, 1942, in Chicago. Gerald had far surpassed the educational attainments of his parents, having completed two years of college. We do not know his Army unit, nor the nature or length of his wartime service.
Gerald married Marilyn Betty Hoyle on May, 17 1947 in Dixon, Lee County, Illinois. The couple would make their home in that town as well.
A 1949 city directory showed that Gerald and Marilyn lived at 1703 West 2nd in Dixon, and that Gerald was employed as a clerk with "INU Co." (possibly meaning an insurance company?).
The couple had a daughter, Janice Louise, born on April 25, 1954. However, the baby died three days later, and there was evidently not another attempt.
Gerald's father Wilbur, passed away on August 1, 1956, in Alameda, California, at the age of 65. We do not know why he was in California. His mother, Myrtle, passed away two years later in Dixon, Illinois, at the age of 67.
Gerald died in January 1966 in Dixon, Illinois, when he was just 44 years old. His remains were committed to the earth in the Emmert Cemetery in Nachusa Township near his baby daughter, his parents, and many other kinfolk.
◙ ◙ ◙ ◙
Researched and written by: P. A. White, Esq.
© 2018-2021 – All Rights Reserved
Subject's relation to author: 5th cousin
See also https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GQYY-D6F
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