Ancestry of
Emily Post

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Mary Josephine Lee

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• • Mother of Emily Post — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3 
  • Father:
  • Washington Lee 
  • Mother:
  • Emily Laura Thomas   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Dec 1851 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Oct 1909 
  • Death Location:
  • Arden, Orange, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Hollenback Cemetery, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Bruce Price
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Apr 1870 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Baltimore, Maryland 
  • Children:
  
  

  Emily Bruce Price (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  William Lee Price

  • Notes: 

  • Josephine (Lee) Price was killed in an auto accident in 1909.

• Sources for Mary Josephine Lee

  • ¹ Cumberland Times (Cumberland, Maryland), 01 JUN 1952, p. 4.
  • ² Federal Census, NY, New York County, 1880, New York City, E.D. 171, p. 20, Image 20 of 23.
  • ³ Federal Census, NY, New York County, 1900, Manhattan, E.D. 104, Sheet 4A, Image 7 of 37.
  • ⁴ Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Wilkes-Barr, PA, Baptism for son William Lee Price.
  • ⁵ The Mayflower Descendant, Spring 2012, Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 83, 86-87.
  • ⁶ U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925, Passport application for spouse Bruce Price.
  • ⁷ Claridge, Laura, Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners, New York: Random House Trade Paperback Edition (2009), 194-196.
  • ⁸ Harvey, Oscar Jewell, The Harvey Book: Giving the Genealogies of Certain Branches of the American Families of Harvey, Nesbitt, Dixon and . . ., Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: E.B. Yordy and Co., Printers (1899), 560.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 577.
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia, "Bruce Price", (accessed 08/25/2014).
  • ¹¹ Wikipedia, "Emily Post", (accessed 08/25/2014).