Emily Gray Bagby

1851 - 1936  (85 years)

• Name	Emily Gray Bagby
  Birth	21 May 1851	Houston, Harris, TX
  Gender	Female
  Census	10 Nov 1860	Houston, Harris, TX
  	age 9, born TX, living with parents
  Census	22 Jul 1870	Houston, Harris, TX
  	age 19, born TX, living with mother
  Census	8 Jun 1880	Houston, Harris, TX
  	age 29, born TX, living on mother's estate
  Census	4 Jun 1900	Houston, Harris, TX
  	age 49, born May 1851 in TX, widowed, 2/2 children living, school teacher, living with mother on Bagby homestead
  Census	22 Apr 1910	Houston, Harris, TX
  	age 55, born TX, widowed, 2/2 children living, parents born VA/NY, living with daughter Marguerite's family
  Census	14 Jan 1920	Houston, Harris, TX
  	age 68, born TX, widowed, parents born VA/NY, living with family on Vandervoort homestead
  Census	14 Apr 1930	Houston, Harris, TX
  	age 77, born TX, 1st marr at 23, parents born VA/NY, living with daughter Nannie's family
  Death	4 Jun 1936	Houston, Harris, TX
  Burial	Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, TX
  Person ID	I1674	Family Tree
  Last Modified	21 Jan 2022

  
  

  Father	Thomas Madison Bagby,   b. 18 May 1814, New Canton, Buckingham, VA d. 12 May 1868, Houston, Harris, TX (Age 53 years)
  Mother	Marianna Baker,   b. 3 May 1824, Baldwinsville, Onondaga, NY d. 16 Dec 1904, Houston, Harris, TX (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	23 Feb 1848	Houston, Harris, TX
  Histories		History of Texas, together with a biographical history of the cities of Houston and Galveston
  Family ID	F420	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Francis Clements Usher,   b. 14 Feb 1843, Princeton, Caldwell, KY d. Jun 8 1882, Houston, Harris, TX (Age 39 years)  [1]
  Marriage	26 Nov 1873	Houston, Harris, TX
  Children	+ 1. Marguerite Usher,   b. 4 Jan 1875, Houston, Harris, TX d. 9 Jun 1955, Houston, Harris, TX (Age 80 years) + 2. Marianna “Nannie” Usher,   b. 12 Jul 1877, Houston, Harris, TX d. 11 Mar 1964, Harvey, Cook, IL (Age 86 years)
  Family ID	F421	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2014

  
  

• Photos

  Lucy Gray Bagby Usher

  
  

  Headstones		Bagby Family Grave Site Plot: Sect. C-4, Lot 171
  		Emily Bagby Usher Headstone EMILY BAGBY USHER / MAY 21, 1851 / JUNE 4, 1936

  
  

• Notes

  from "Texas, Death Certificates, 1903?1982" (ancestry.com) Emily Bagby Usher, a widow residing in Houston TX, daughter of Tom Bagby b. VA & Marianna Baker b. NY died on 4 Jun 1936 in Houston of encylialsmoloia folowing apoplexy. Burial on 5 Jun 1936 in Glenwood Cemetery. Informant Mrs. Nannie Ketterson. from "The Houston Chronicle", 5 Jun 1936 (genealogybank.com) Funeral services for Mrs. Emily B. Usher, 85, a member of a well known Texas pioneer family, will be held at 4 p.m. Today at the Morse Funeral Church with Dr Charles L. King officiating. Burial will be in Glenwood Cemetery. Mrs. Usher died at her home, 1403 Westheimer, at 5:30 p.m. Thursday. She had been in ill health for more than a year. Active pallbearers will be her nephews, Richard Tankersley, Raymond tankersley, Francis Berleth, Nelson Berleth, William Berleth and John Allen. A lifelong resident of Houston, Mrs. Usher was a member of the Tom M. Bagby family, one of the prominent early families of Houston. For many years she resided at the old family homestead, on which site the Houston Public Library is now located. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. A. S. Vandervoort and Mrs. Nannie Ketterson, both of Houston, and six grandchildren. Mrs. L. J. Woodruff, A. S. Vandervoort,Jr., and Randolph Vandervoort, all of Houston; John B. Ketterson, New York; Frank Ketterson, Dallas and Tom B Ketterson, Bryan.

  
  

• Sources

  [S141] Texas Deaths, 1890-1976, (Transcribed by LDS), Ref Num: Item 6 cn 31051.