Copyright 2004, Esther Doyle Read

New 12 July 2004

READ FAMILY CONNECTIONS

576. EMMA AUGUSTA READ⁵ (Isaac Fonger Read⁴, Isaac Read, III³, John Read², Joseph Read¹), was born 15 September 1875 in Blairstown Township, Warren County, New Jersey and died January 1972 in Brooklyn, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania (Social Security Death Index). It is possible that Emma was also known as Emily. The 1934 obituary for her brother Harry, gives her name as Emily (Blairstown Press, 12 July 1934). The February 1934 obituary for her sister Sue Read Austin gives her name as Mrs. Elmer W. Breed (Blairstown Press, 15 February 1934). Her middle name is given as Augusta by the Latter Day Saints (hereinafter, LDS AFN: 1DH2-WJM) Emma first appears in the census in 1880. She resided with her parents, her great-Uncle John Flock (age 68) and several siblings (John, Susan, Katie, Andrew Harry, and Clark) in the village of Jacksonburg in Blairstown Township. Emma was not yet in school. She and the baby (Clark) stayed at home, whle the older children went to school (1880 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 191, Blairstown Township, Warren County, New Jersey, page 294D, 17 June 1880).

Emma was one of the three editors of The Flocks: Ancestry, Genealogy, and History of nine generations of Flocks in the U.S.A. and Canada. Another editor was her sister-in-law, Levina Van Kirk Read, wife of Flock Read. The book was published in 1938 by the Hackettstown Gazette Publishing Company.

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CHILDREN OF EMMA A. READ AND ELMER W. BREED:

2917. (i.) ROBERT READ BREED⁶, was born 20 February 1902 in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania and died 25 March 1990 (LDS AFN:1DH3-55P; Social Security Death Index). He lived at home with his parents in 1910 and attended school (1910 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 61, Brooklyn Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, sheet 5A, 25 April 1910). Robert was still living at home in 1920 and he was still in school (1920 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 64, Brooklyn Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, sheet 7B, 21 January 1920). Robert's social security number was issued in New York before 1951 (Social Security Death Index).

2918. (ii.) WALLACE ELMER BREED⁶, was born 2 November 1905 in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania and died 11 April 1993 in Binghampton, Broome County, New York (Social Security Death Index). He lived at home with his parents in 1910, but was still too young to attend school (1910 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 61, Brooklyn Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, sheet 5A, 25 April 1910). He was in school in 1920 and lived with his parents on their farm in Brooklyn Township (1920 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 64, Brooklyn Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, sheet 7B, 21 January 1920). Wallace married in 1929 or 1930, Beatrice A. (Last Name Unknown). In 1930, Wallace and Beatrice lived with his parents on their farm in Brooklyn Township. Wallace worked as a farm laborer on his parents dairy farm (1930 United States Federal Census, Brooklyn ownship, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Enumeration District 58-6, sheet 6B, 21 April 1930). He appears to have been married a second time to Margaret Baxter. She was born 13 November 1902 and died December 1982 in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. Wallace and Margaret are buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Brooklyn Township, Susquehanna County, New Jersey (Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania GenWeb). Margaret's social security number was issued in New York State before 1951, but Wallace's was issued in Pennsylvania (also before 1951) (Social Security Death Index).

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