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Emily Gray Bagby

Emily Gray Bagby

Female 1851 - 1936  (85 years)

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  • Name Emily Gray Bagby 
    Birth 21 May 1851  Houston, Harris, TX Find all individuals with events at this location
    Gender Female 
    Census 10 Nov 1860  Houston, Harris, TX Find all individuals with events at this location ; age 9, born TX, living with parents
    Census 22 Jul 1870  Houston, Harris, TX Find all individuals with events at this location ; age 19, born TX, living with mother
    Census 8 Jun 1880  Houston, Harris, TX Find all individuals with events at this location ; age 29, born TX, living on mother's estate
    Census 4 Jun 1900  Houston, Harris, TX Find all individuals with events at this location ; age 49, born May 1851 in TX, widowed, 2/2 children living, school teacher, living with mother on Bagby homestead
    Census 22 Apr 1910  Houston, Harris, TX Find all individuals with events at this location ; age 55, born TX, widowed, 2/2 children living, parents born VA/NY, living with daughter Marguerite's family
    Census 14 Jan 1920  Houston, Harris, TX Find all individuals with events at this location ; age 68, born TX, widowed, parents born VA/NY, living with family on Vandervoort homestead
    Census 14 Apr 1930  Houston, Harris, TX Find all individuals with events at this location ; age 77, born TX, 1st marr at 23, parents born VA/NY, living with daughter Nannie's family
    Death 4 Jun 1936  Houston, Harris, TX Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial   Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, TX Find all individuals with events at this location
    Person ID I1674  Family Tree
    Last Modified 21 Jan 2022 

    Father AncestorsThomas Madison Bagby,   b. 18 May 1814, New Canton, Buckingham, VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 May 1868, Houston, Harris, TX Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 53 years) 
    Mother AncestorsMarianna Baker,   b. 3 May 1824, Baldwinsville, Onondaga, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Dec 1904, Houston, Harris, TX Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years) 
    Marriage 23 Feb 1848  Houston, Harris, TX Find all individuals with events at this location
    Histories
    History of Texas, together with a biographical history of the cities of Houston and Galveston
    History of Texas, together with a biographical history of the cities of Houston and Galveston
    Family ID F420  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family AncestorsFrancis Clements Usher,   b. 14 Feb 1843, Princeton, Caldwell, KY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jun 8 1882, Houston, Harris, TX Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 39 years)  [1
    Marriage 26 Nov 1873  Houston, Harris, TX Find all individuals with events at this location
    Children 
    +1. Marguerite Usher,   b. 4 Jan 1875, Houston, Harris, TX Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Jun 1955, Houston, Harris, TX Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
    +2. Marianna “Nannie” Usher,   b. 12 Jul 1877, Houston, Harris, TX Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Mar 1964, Harvey, Cook, IL Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years)
    Family ID F421  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Sep 2014 

  • Photos
    Lucy Gray Bagby Usher
    Lucy Gray Bagby Usher

    Headstones
    Bagby Family Grave Site
    Bagby Family Grave Site
    Plot: Sect. C-4, Lot 171
    Emily Bagby Usher Headstone
    Emily Bagby Usher Headstone
    EMILY BAGBY USHER / MAY 21, 1851 / JUNE 4, 1936

  • Notes 
    • from "Texas, Death Certificates, 1903?1982" (ancestry.com)
      Emily Bagby Usher, a widow residing in Houston TX, daughter of Tom Bagby b. VA & Marianna Baker b. NY died on 4 Jun 1936 in Houston of encylialsmoloia folowing apoplexy. Burial on 5 Jun 1936 in Glenwood Cemetery. Informant Mrs. Nannie Ketterson.
    • from "The Houston Chronicle", 5 Jun 1936 (genealogybank.com)
      Funeral services for Mrs. Emily B. Usher, 85, a member of a well known Texas pioneer family, will be held at 4 p.m. Today at the Morse Funeral Church with Dr Charles L. King officiating. Burial will be in Glenwood Cemetery. Mrs. Usher died at her home, 1403 Westheimer, at 5:30 p.m. Thursday. She had been in ill health for more than a year. Active pallbearers will be her nephews, Richard Tankersley, Raymond tankersley, Francis Berleth, Nelson Berleth, William Berleth and John Allen. A lifelong resident of Houston, Mrs. Usher was a member of the Tom M. Bagby family, one of the prominent early families of Houston. For many years she resided at the old family homestead, on which site the Houston Public Library is now located. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. A. S. Vandervoort and Mrs. Nannie Ketterson, both of Houston, and six grandchildren. Mrs. L. J. Woodruff, A. S. Vandervoort,Jr., and Randolph Vandervoort, all of Houston; John B. Ketterson, New York; Frank Ketterson, Dallas and Tom B Ketterson, Bryan.

  • Sources 
    1. [S141] Texas Deaths, 1890-1976, (Transcribed by LDS), Ref Num: Item 6 cn 31051.