'Mrs Asa Emmons or Aunt Nancy who occupies a room with her daughter Mrs Hewitt She was born June 22 1814 at Beverly West Virginia Her father William Booth was in the War of 1812 She came with her father to Albany this county in 1837 and was there married to Asa Emmons an expert stair builder A devout Methodist and happy in her religious hopes She prefers to receive callers in her own apartments where she reads sews writes and meditates In pleasant weather she takes a walk This paragraph appeared in a Sterling paper Mrs Asa Emmons Rock Falls ninety three last June 1814 1907 in a conversation yesterday with WW Davis related an incident that gives her
a remote connection with 1776 Her mother's father Edward Hart was a brother of John Hart signer of the Declaration of Independence He was from New Jersey and the Hessians in 1777 burned his property Singular enough Mr Davis happens to have among his curios a piece of Continental Script with the signature of John Hart.' - History of Whitside County Illinois Volumne I
a remote connection with 1776 Her mother's father Edward Hart was a brother of John Hart signer of the Declaration of Independence He was from New Jersey and the Hessians in 1777 burned his property Singular enough Mr Davis happens to have among his curios a piece of Continental Script with the signature of John Hart.' - History of Whitside County Illinois Volumne I
'Mrs Asa Emmons or Aunt Nancy who occupies a room with her daughter Mrs Hewitt She was born June 22 1814 at Beverly West Virginia Her father William Booth was in the War of 1812 She came with her father to Albany this county in 1837 and was there married to Asa Emmons an expert stair builder A devout Methodist and happy in her religious hopes She prefers to receive callers in her own apartments where she reads sews writes and meditates In pleasant weather she takes a walk This paragraph appeared in a Sterling paper Mrs Asa Emmons Rock Falls ninety three last June 1814 1907 in a conversation yesterday with WW Davis related an incident that gives her
a remote connection with 1776 Her mother's father Edward Hart was a brother of John Hart signer of the Declaration of Independence He was from New Jersey and the Hessians in 1777 burned his property Singular enough Mr Davis happens to have among his curios a piece of Continental Script with the signature of John Hart.' - History of Whitside County Illinois Volumne I
a remote connection with 1776 Her mother's father Edward Hart was a brother of John Hart signer of the Declaration of Independence He was from New Jersey and the Hessians in 1777 burned his property Singular enough Mr Davis happens to have among his curios a piece of Continental Script with the signature of John Hart.' - History of Whitside County Illinois Volumne I
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