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Amelia "Emma" Dunn Orr

1818 – 1885

Birth1818
Death1885
CemeteryZion Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery
Benton , Polk County , Tennessee , USA
Added byMarian Presswood on 21 Jun 2016
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5614834

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Our records at the Polk County Historical & Genealogical Society say Amelia 'Emely' was born about 1818 (1850 census) in South Carolina, and was married to Robert Orr. At that time Robert and 'Emely' had 2 sons (W. F. and Hiram) under five years of age, and one daughter, Rachel) under ten. In the 1840 Polk census, an elderly Margaret Dunn is living next door to Emely and Robert, which is a good candidate to be Emely's mother. Also the last child to be at home with Robert and Emely is named Margaret (1870), who may be the Sarah (Margaret ?) (5)at home with them in the 1860 census. Margaret and daughter, Malinda Swafford, are also in the 1850 Polk census.) In the 1850 census Robert and Amelia 'Emma' had children Rachel E. J., William Franklin 'Samp', Hiram, Sion, Robert Ransom, James K. P. and Elijah. By 1860 they had one more daughter, Sarah. Oral history may have errors, but our oral history gathered by Uncle Billy Harrison says their daughter Lucindy married William Lingerfelt, Rachel married Joe Runions, Sampson (William Franklin) married Sarah Evans. Neither Emely nor Robert have a grave marker but they are known to be buried in Zion and are on all the old lists. Emma is in the 1880 census and not the 1900 (but remember the big gap left by having no 1890 census), therefore her death date is between those years, and having no proof we 'guesstimate' it to be 1885. Findagrave has no way to put an estimate, but please note that these are not 'hard facts' for we have none. Bio and links by Marian Bailey Presswood, Polk County historian.

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