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Adonijah Emmons

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Adonijah Emmons Veteran

Birth
Vermont, USA
Death
15 Apr 1843 (aged 58)
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA Add to Map
Plot
Sec A Lot 83
Memorial ID
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Son of Solomon Emmons and Sabra Canfield Emmons

Married Harriet S. Clark

Newpaper publisher, attorney

Additional source: Death Records, Elmwood Cemetery, Michigan Works Progess Administration, Vital Records Project, Vol. 1-2, which indicates that Adonijah Emmonds (sic) was born in Cornwall, CT and died on 15 Apr 1843, in Detroit, MI.

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Per Find A Grave contributor Jeff Lloyd ©2004-2014

Sons Norman Jay, Halmor Hull, and Jed P.C. were all attorneys.

From Spooner Memorial:
He was in company with his brother, Horatio, in the mercantile business at Berkshire, VT in 1808 and 1809. Subsequently in the same business in Glenns Falls, NY where he was also Postmaster. He edited and published for a time "The Sandy Hill Times" at Sandy Hill, NY; practiced Law in that place and at Keesville, NY, and was in this practice with his sons, Halmer H. and Jed C., at Detroit, MI, where he died.

"'The Keeseville Argus", edited by Adonijah Emmons, was begun about 1831, and continued 5 or 6 years.


Son of Solomon Emmons and Sabra Canfield Emmons

Married Harriet S. Clark

Newpaper publisher, attorney

Additional source: Death Records, Elmwood Cemetery, Michigan Works Progess Administration, Vital Records Project, Vol. 1-2, which indicates that Adonijah Emmonds (sic) was born in Cornwall, CT and died on 15 Apr 1843, in Detroit, MI.

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Per Find A Grave contributor Jeff Lloyd ©2004-2014

Sons Norman Jay, Halmor Hull, and Jed P.C. were all attorneys.

From Spooner Memorial:
He was in company with his brother, Horatio, in the mercantile business at Berkshire, VT in 1808 and 1809. Subsequently in the same business in Glenns Falls, NY where he was also Postmaster. He edited and published for a time "The Sandy Hill Times" at Sandy Hill, NY; practiced Law in that place and at Keesville, NY, and was in this practice with his sons, Halmer H. and Jed C., at Detroit, MI, where he died.

"'The Keeseville Argus", edited by Adonijah Emmons, was begun about 1831, and continued 5 or 6 years.


Gravesite Details

Marker well worn and difficult to read.



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