He was the son of Dr. John Patten Emmet and Mary Byrd Farley Tucker Emmet and the grandson of Thomas Addis Emmet. He was a distinguished physician and medical writer. After his death in New York, his remains were temporarily placed in his vault in White Plains until suitable arrangements could be made for his burial at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin (in the country of origin for his family).
Thanks to inmand15 for the following information:
Extensive obituary in The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA, 08 Mar 1919, page 1 at: https://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2114047/view#openLayer/uva-lib:2114048/626/2942.5/3/1/0
He was the son of Dr. John Patten Emmet and Mary Byrd Farley Tucker Emmet and the grandson of Thomas Addis Emmet. He was a distinguished physician and medical writer. After his death in New York, his remains were temporarily placed in his vault in White Plains until suitable arrangements could be made for his burial at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin (in the country of origin for his family).
Thanks to inmand15 for the following information:
Extensive obituary in The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA, 08 Mar 1919, page 1 at: https://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2114047/view#openLayer/uva-lib:2114048/626/2942.5/3/1/0
Gravesite Details
Date of birth is listed as 1828 in his autobiography, but 1826 on the monument.
Family Members
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John Patten Emmet
1796–1842
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Mary Byrd Tucker Emmet
1805–1860
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Catherine Rebecca Duncan Emmet
1827–1905 (m. 1854)
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Jane Emmet Griswold
1832–1909
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John Duncan Emmet
1857–1923
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Anne Emmet Harris
1859–1898
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Mary Tucker Emmet
1860–1877
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Thomas Addis Emmet
1864–1918
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Robert Griswold Emmet
1871–1955
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