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Descendants of Joseph Bemis

921. Jonas⁶ Bemis (Jonas⁵, Abraham⁴, John³, John², Joseph¹)⁴⁸¹⁸ was born 30 Jul 1796 in Lincoln, Middlesex, Massachusetts^4818,⁴⁸¹⁹. He married Johanna (Buchannan) Gibbs⁴⁸²⁰ 11 May 1823 in Lincoln, Middlesex, Massachusetts. She died 07 Feb 1840 in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts ⁴⁸²¹.

Notes for Jonas Bemis:
[Draper:100] m. Martha --- no issue. They adopted a girl naming her Mary, she m. a man named Congill, and had three children, is deceased, her husband and children living in Cumberland Co., O.

Note: This is not supported by [Bond:26], which indicates that he married Joanna Gibbs, May 1, 1823.

More About Johanna (Buchannan) Gibbs:
Name 2: Joanna Gibbs ⁴⁸²²
Died 2: 11 Feb 1840, Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts (aged 58 yrs.)⁴⁸²³

More About Jonas Bemis and Johanna Gibbs:
Intention filed: 09 Mar 1823, Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts ⁴⁸²⁴
Marriage 1: 11 May 1823, Lincoln, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Marriage 2: 01 May 1823 ^4825,⁴⁸²⁶

Child of Jonas Bemis and Johanna Gibbs is:

1889

James Henry Buchanan⁷ Bemis ⁴⁸²⁷, born 12 Feb 1824 in Lincoln, Middlesex, Massachusetts ^4828,⁴⁸²⁹. He married (1) Mrs. Susan Woodworth Nye ⁴⁸³⁰; born in Randolph, New York⁴⁸³⁰; died 25 May 1879 in Mt. Airy, North Carolina⁴⁸³⁰. He married (2) Louise S. Zimmerman ⁴⁸³¹ 19 Apr 1889 in Buffalo, New York ⁴⁸³².

Notes for James Henry Buchanan Bemis:
[Draper:101] Living March 1898, at Ontario, Calf.

More About James Henry Buchanan Bemis:
Name 2: James Henry Buchannan Bemis ⁴⁸³³

More About James Bemis and Louise Zimmerman:
Marriage: 19 Apr 1889, Buffalo, New York ⁴⁸³⁴

      923. Emory⁶ Bemis (Jonas⁵, Abraham⁴, John³, John², Joseph¹)⁴⁸³⁵ was born 30 Jun 1801 in Lincoln, Middlesex, Massachusetts ^4836,⁴⁸³⁷, and died 28 Nov 1882. He married Susanna Bemis Pickering⁴⁸³⁸ 28 Sep 1830 in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts ^4839,⁴⁸⁴⁰, daughter of George Pickering and Mary Bemis. She was born 18 Sep 1807 in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts ^4841,⁴⁸⁴², and died 10 Mar 1887 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts ⁴⁸⁴³.

Notes for Emory Bemis:
[Draper:102-4] Of Emery Bemis the Cambridge Mass. Tribune of Dec. 1st 1882, said: -- "A Boston merchant for more than fifty years, for twenty-five years an honored citizen of Cambridge, where his last days were spent. Such is the meager outline of a large life. Yet I deem it only fitting that one who has long known and loved him should add a word to this brief record of earthly years. There are many to whom this and the simple notice of death in another column will bring a shock of sad surprise. Not that death at an age so advanced was unlooked for or singular, but to those who knew him well, and were wont to meet him at his place of business, and in the streets of the neighboring city, he may well have seemed, up to the time of his enforced retirement from the scenes of active life, some six years since, the very embodiment of vitality and manly energy. It was impossible to look into the face of this man and not believe in him at once and completely, nor was such confidence ever misplaced. I have known and have had close business relations with many men, and can say with absolute truth, with neither exaggeration nor the fulsome eulogy that gushes so easily when death has closed a life record, that I never met his superior, scarcely his equal, for perfect integrity and unsullied and undoubted honor. As to a generosity, ever too free for his means, let the poor, to whom he was a providence; let the families of our soldiers absent in our defense, tell the story. For the last six or seven years Mr. Bemis has been confined at home, a victim of progressive paralysis, yet, despite the weakness and irritability consequent on such a complaint, his mind remained clear almost to the end.

Why weep ye, then, for him, who having won
The bound of man's appointed years, at last,
Life's blessing all enjoyed, life's labors done,
Serenely to his final rest has passed;
While the soft memory of his virtues yet
Lingers like twilight hues when the bright sun is set?'"
                              P. R. A.
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LINES WRITTEN TO MRS. SUSAN P. BEMIS
By George Francis Train
On the Death of Her Husband, Emery Bemis, Esq., of
      Cambridge, Mass.

                              MADISON SQUARE, New York
                              Thanksgiving Day, 1882

Dear Aunt Susan:

Yes! sad indeed Thanksgiving Day
To you? As winter, cold and drear,
As autumn leaves drop on the way,
Your life-long love has left you here!
For six decades so true to you
As you to him were always true!
Kind father, husband, and true
To friends', still friendly to the end!
('Tis two and forty years ago,
Do you remember, in the snow
You called for me when school was done,
At burning of the Lexington?)
Through all these years a friend more kind
Than "Uncle Em." 'tis hard to find.
(Through life's changes on land and sea
He had the kindest love for me.)
Long lifed our race (though desolate)
There still remains three out of eight!
How many generations gone
Yet Homestead still survives life storm?
(Hundred seventy years ago
Ancestral deeds were signed, you know.)
Death-stricken with Time's occult hand
For long he gazed on "Shadow Land!"
(That life-death none can understand?)
He lived to love and loved to live
And shared all that he had to give!
For four-score years (deny who can)
He never injured any man?
His joyous laugh and gentle words
Were pure as song of summer birds!
His "Honor Bright" is free from stain,
As is his character and name!
I wish that all my countrymen
Were "Simon Pure" like "Uncle Em!"
With kind regards these words I send
To souvenir my kind old friend.

More About Emory Bemis:
Name 2: Emery Bemis ⁴⁸⁴⁴
Date born 2: 30 Jun 1800

More About Susanna Bemis Pickering:
Name 2: Susan Bemis Pickering ⁴⁸⁴⁵

More About Emory Bemis and Susanna Pickering:
Intention filed: 07 Sep 1830, Lincoln, Middlesex, Massachusetts ⁴⁸⁴⁶
Marriage: 28 Sep 1830, Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts ^4847,⁴⁸⁴⁸
Newspaper: 02 Oct 1830, Massachusetts Centinal Marriage Notices ⁴⁸⁴⁹

Children of Emory Bemis and Susanna Pickering are:

+	1890	i.		Caroline Clark⁷ Bemis, born 14 Jul 1831 in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died 01 Oct 1855 in Cambridgeport, Mass..
	1891	ii.		Herman Emery Bemis ⁴⁸⁵⁰, born 18 Nov 1832 in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts⁴⁸⁵⁰; died 11 Mar 1834 in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts⁴⁸⁵⁰.

More About Herman Emery Bemis:
Name 2: Herman E. Bemis ⁴⁸⁵¹
Date born 2: 1832, Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts ⁴⁸⁵²
Died 2: 1834, Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts ⁴⁸⁵³

1892

iii.

Stebbins Fiske Bemis ⁴⁸⁵⁴, born 23 May 1835 in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts⁴⁸⁵⁴; died 13 Jun 1836 in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts⁴⁸⁵⁴.

More About Stebbins Fiske Bemis:
Name 2: Stebbins F. Bemis ⁴⁸⁵⁵
Date born 2: 1835, Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts⁴⁸⁵⁵
Died 2: 1836, Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts ⁴⁸⁵⁶

+	1893	iv.	Louise Maria Bemis, born 08 Jan 1837 in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died 07 Jan 1876 in Brooklyn, New York.
+	1894	v.	Hon. George Pickering Bemis, born 15 Mar 1838 in Boston, Massachusetts; died 11 Dec 1916 in Omaha, Nebraska.
+	1895	vi.	Alice Winslow Bemis, born 23 Nov 1840 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died 21 Apr 1888 in Omaha, Nebraska.
+	1896	vii.	Susan Pickering Bemis, born 03 Jun 1842 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died 04 Nov 1870 in Boston, Massachusetts.
	1897	viii.	Emery Bemis ⁴⁸⁵⁷, born 20 Apr 1844 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts⁴⁸⁵⁷.

Notes for Emery Bemis:
[Draper:105] unm. lives in Boston.

1898

ix.

Anna McLean Bemis⁴⁸⁵⁷, born 02 Sep 1846 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts ⁴⁸⁵⁸.

Notes for Anna McLean Bemis:
[Draper:105] unm. lives in Boston.

More About Anna McLean Bemis:
Date born 2: 02 Sep 1847, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts ⁴⁸⁵⁹

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