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Franklin Scott “Frank” Emmert

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Birth	:	Oct 1852 Funkstown, Washington County, Maryland, USA
Death	:	10 Oct 1926 Berkeley, Berkeley County, West Virginia, USA
Burial	:	Green Hill Cemetery, Martinsburg, Berkeley County, USA
Coordinate	:	39.4538994, -77.9558029
Description	:	Franklin Scott Emmert was born on November 29, 1852, near Funkstown in Washington County, Maryland, to Mary Newcomer, age 41, and Samuel Emmert, age 45. He usually went by Frank. THE EMMERTS OF MARYLAND Frank's branch of the Emmert family came to America from Bavaria in 1732 when Johann Jorg Friedrich "George" Emmert (1718-1796) stepped off a small ship named ‘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 pledged allegiance to the State of Pennsylvania before Judge Peter... Read More	Franklin Scott Emmert was born on November 29, 1852, near Funkstown in Washington County, Maryland, to Mary Newcomer, age 41, and Samuel Emmert, age 45. He usually went by Frank. THE EMMERTS OF MARYLAND Frank's branch of the Emmert family came to America from Bavaria in 1732 when Johann Jorg Friedrich "George" Emmert (1718-1796) stepped off a small ship named ‘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 pledged allegiance to the State of Pennsylvania before Judge Peter Spycker in Berks County. George Emmert's son was Leonard Emmert, the 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 turning away from Lutheranism and in 1798 moving his family to Washington County, Maryland to join many other followers of Alexander Mack settling there. Leonard Emmert'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 Frank's 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. A smaller number went south to Berkeley County, Virginia (West Virginia after June 20, 1863), and that is where Frank spent his later years. A LIFE LIVED Frank had at least a dozen older siblings, all but one of whom lived to adulthood. The children grew up for a time on a successful family farm, then moved to the Funkstown area where their father had gone into the milling business with their uncle, Henry Newcomer, in 1857. Maryland was caught between the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War, and Washington County was hotly contested by both sides. In the leadup to the war in 1859, the abolitionist John Brown had sought support from the Emmerts and other anti-slavery Brethren faithful as Brown prepared to seize the federal armory at Harper’s Ferry. On September 12-13, 1862, Maryland's first battle raged around the Brethren church at Brownsville. The bloodiest single-day battle of the war was fought at Sharpsburg a few days later, wrecking the Brethren church at Antietam in the process. Confederate troops would seize horses, livestock, and provender from farmers, giving worthless script in return. Black Freedmen were taken prisoner and sent back into slavery in the Deep South. And in the summer of 1863, Gen. Robert E. Lee's army passed near Ezra's farm on the way to Gettysburg, and again on its way back to Virginia the following week. DRY GOODS After the war Frank's father went to Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia, where he went into the dry goods business with Benjamin Franklin Fiery, the husband of Frank's sister, Amanda. The store, known as Emmert & Fiery, was a great success. Frank married H. Virginia Stewart in Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia, on September 13, 1877, when he was 24 years old. The couple would have at least four children between 1878 and 1896. One or more of the children died in infancy, however. Frank's father retired from Emmert & Fiery in 1878; Samuel and his wife, Mary, returned to Maryland while Frank remained in West Virginia to take charge of the Emmert interest in the store. Frank's mother passed away on December 28, 1884, in Beaver Creek, Maryland, at the age of 73. His father Samuel died less than a year later at the age of 78. In 1900 Frank and Virginia lived in a fine brick home at 513 South Queen Street what is now the Boydville Historic District of Martinsburg. The family home was about 4/10 mile south of the family store in downtown Martinsburg. The family was clearly doing quite well, with three Black servants and plenty of room for the two children. Next door lived the accomplished George Meade Bowers, the U.S. Commissioner of Fisheries and a future U.S. Congressman, whose opulent home featured marble-clad columns from the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C. Frank's business partner and brother-in-law, Benjamin Franklin Fiery, died on March 30, 1901 at the age of 71. By that time Benjamin had become one of the leading citizens of Martinsburg. Sometime after Benjamin's death, but before 1912, Frank restyled and reformed the business as Frank S. Emmert & Son, Inc. (the son being Allen Rogers Emmert (1888–1961)). They continued the dry goods trade situated at 108-100 North Queen Street in Martinsburg. Virginia passed away on July 12, 1913, at the age of 59. They had been married 35 years. She was laid to rest at Green Hill Cemetery in Martinsburg. Frank died on October 9, 1926, when he was 73 years old. His body was committed to the earth beside Virginia in the Green Hill Cemetery, and near his old business partner, Benjamin Fiery. EPILOGUE Frank S. Emmert & Son was still in business when Frank passed in 1926, and would continue on with Allen at the helm. Allen's death in 1961 seems to have led to the final demise of the store and corporation. ◘ ◘ ◘ Researched and written by P. A. White, JD 2019 for @NewWorldAncestry at Shorewood, Wisconsin – All Rights Reserved Subject’s relation to author: 2d cousin 3x removed See also https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L6FX-F18

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Franklin Scott “Frank” Emmert death on 10 Oct 1926 in Berkeley, Berkeley County, West Virginia, USA
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Latitude: 39.4538994
Longitude: -77.9558029

Family Members:

Parent

Samuel Emmert

(1807 - 1885)

Mary Newcomer Emmert

(1811 - 1884)

Spouse

H. Virginia Stewart Emmert

(1854 - 1913)

Siblings

Amanda Emmert Fiery

(1835 - 1901)

Sarah T. Emmert Grimm

(1842 - 1871)

Victor Emmert

(1844 - 1860)

(unknow - unknow)

Mary “Mollie” Emmert Flippo

(1847 - 1903)

Amelia Louise Emmert Stewart

(1849 - 1912)

Ella V Emmert Snodgrass

(1851 - 1927)

Children

R. S. Emmert

(1878 - 1878)

S. E. Emmert

(1878 - 1878)

Frank Stewart Emmert

(1886 - 1888)

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Coordinate: 39.4538994, -77.9558029

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Coordinate: 39.4522930, -77.9825800

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Coordinate: 39.4454600, -77.9268400

15. Douglass Grove Cemetery
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Coordinate: 39.4182000, -77.9550500

16. Shepherd Family Cemetery
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Coordinate: 39.4180940, -77.9543920

17. Providence Quaker Cemetery
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Coordinate: 39.4653015, -78.0000992

18. Smoketown Cemetery
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Coordinate: 39.4575000, -77.9059000

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24. Pleasant View Memory Gardens
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