Emma A. WRIGHT

  General Notes:

Wedding Announcement: In March 1875 Emma A. (Wright) McPherson became the widow of William McPherson after a marriage of less than two years. On September 16, 1877 she married widower William C. Baty, as reported in the EFFINGHAM DEMOCRAT of September 20. (Baty's wife, Sarah James, had died in March '77.) Baty brought four children to the marriage and Emma one, her son Samuel George McPherson. She died ten years later, in 1887. Her widower, William C. Baty, died in Colorado in 1905.

Wedding Announcement from DeeAnna Allum Granston



1849 BIRTH of Emma A. Wright (if not "Amandy" used in the 1850 census, Emma's middle name may have been "Amanda")

Emma was a daughter of George W. Wright and Thankful Spaulding

1850 CENSUS, Illinois, Effingham County ("Amandy," age 1, is with her parents)

1860 CENSUS, Illinois, Effingham County, P. O. Effingham ("Emma," age 9, is with her parents)

1870 CENSUS, Illinois, Effingham County, Douglas Township, P. O. Effingham ("Emma A.," age 20, "School Teacher," is in the home of her parents)

1873 MARRIAGE of Emma A. Wright and William McPherson on July 13 in Effingham County, Illinois by Nelson Hawley

1875 DEATH of first husband, William McPherson (in March), at 31 years 6 months 6 days


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1877 MARRIAGE of widow, Emma A. (Wright) McPherson, to second husband, William C. Baty, on September 16 in Effingham, Effingham County, Illinois by William Willis (Effingham County, Illinois marriage record, Book B, page 16)

Newspaper, EFFINGHAM DEMOCRAT, Effingham, Effingham County, Illinois, September 20, 1877:

"Wonders never cease. On last Sunday morning, Wm. C. Baty, ex-sheriff, was married to Mrs. Emma McPherson of this place ..."

and previously in the EFFINGHAM DEMOCRAT of March 1, 1877:

"Died, at her residence in Lucas township, Mrs. Sarah Baty, wife of ex-Sheriff W. C. Baty, after a painful illness of four weeks. Mrs. Baty was converted in 1859 and united with the Elliotstown Baptist church, of which she has ever remained a consistent member. She was born July 25th, 1840; not living quite two score years in this world of sorrow."

1880 CENSUS, Illinois, Effingham County, Effingham ("William C.," age 42, "Real estate agent") (wife "Emma A.," age 30) (In addition to four Baty children is "Sam'l. G. McPherson," age 5, son of Emma and her first husband, William McPherson, 1843-1875)

1887 DEATH, Emma A. (Wright) (McPherson) Baty, at 37 years 8 months 1 day

Samuel George McPherson, born August 8, 1874 -- son of Emma and her first husband, William McPherson -- was not yet age 1 when his father died and not quite 13 years old when his mother died

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1900 CENSUS, Colorado, Pueblo County, Pueblo ("William C.," age 63, born "January, 1837 in Ohio," is "stepfather" in the household of "Samuel G. McPherson," age 25, "Clerk," born "March 1874 in Illinois"; Samuel was the son of William McPherson and Emma A. [Wright] [McPherson] Baty, the former who died in 1877 [William], the latter in 1887)

1905 DEATH of second husband, William C. Baty, at 67 years 2 months 18 days




BOOK: HISTORY OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY, ILLINOIS, Munsell Publishing Company, 1910, pages 888-889:


GEORGE W. WRIGHT [younger brother of Emma A. Wright, subject of this web page], born in Summit Twp., Effingham Co, Ill., June 19, 1858, son of George and Thankful (Spaulding) Wright. His mother, Thankful, was born in the Western Reserve, Ohio in May, 1826; came to Illinois with her parents and married George Wright, Nov. 14, 1844. She died in 1892 in Dietrich, Ill. She was a daughter of Phineas Spaulding, who was born in Conn., Nov. 7, 1790 and in 1822 moved to Ohio and on to Ill., in 1839. He married Thankful Moses in 1845, moved to Iowa and died in 1847. Daniel Spaulding, father of Phineas, was born in Norfolk, Conn., July 25, 1750 and was a noted Rev. patriot. He enlisted in Capt. Andrew Bucher's company under Col. John Douglas. Daniel was the son of Jacob, who was born in Conn., Dec. 17, 1732 and his father, Edward, was born at Chelmsford, Mass., in Sept. 1693, a son of Edward, born Sept. 16, 1663 at Braintree, Maine, and came to Chelmsford with his father Edward in 1630.

John Wright, the paternal grandfather of George W., entered the first piece of land in Effingham Co. but was accidentally killed while working as a brickmason on the State House at Vandalia. John Wright came to Wayne Co. from Philadelphia prior to the birth of his son George [father of Emma, subject of this page]on Aug. 31, 1820. In 1834 the Wrights came to Effingham Co. Mr. Wright died July 15, 1871. To him and his wife were born the following children: Thomas N., Emma A. [subject of this web page], Millina, Hannah E., George W., Mary A., and Mina.

George W. [subject of this bio] married Clara Beard, who was born in St. Francis twp., Effingham Co., Sept. 10, 1867, and died Nov. 7, 1891, having borne two sons--Arland B., b. Feb. 1889, editor at Dietrich, and James A., b. Sept. 11, 1909, d. Aug. 3, 1907.

Emma married William McPHERSON, son of Samuel McPHERSON and Sarah Ann STREET, on June 13, 1873 in Effingham County, Illinois. (William McPHERSON was born on September 8, 1843 in Washington, D. C, died on March 14, 1875 in Effingham, Effingham County, Illinois and was buried on March 16, 1875 in Effingham Cemetery, Effngham, Effingham County, Illinois.)