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Emma Cecilia Virginia BERRY, was born 1 Jun 1868 in Philadelphia, PA. She died 19 Apr 1920 in Blackwood, NJ and was buried in S-107, Evergreen Cemetery, Camden, NJ
Emma married Charles Stevenson LAMB, son of Daniel L. LAMB and Rachel CHEW Lamb. Charles was born 3 Dec 1866 in Washington Twp, Camden County, NJ. He died 18 Oct 1941 in Camden.
RESIDENCES: When she and her twin brother Horace were born in 1868, her parents resided at 123 Pine St., Philadelphia (Society Hill section) .
SOCIETY HILL HOMESTEAD: Four-story row house at 123 Pine Street, built in 1803, is an historic landmark in the Society Hill colonial restoration of Philadelphia. The family of John Hartman 1802-1892, including nine children, occupied it from 1846 until it was sold in 1897. Recently, it was the residence of Elliott and Peggy Fields (to request visit as descendant phone 215-922-2207).
GRANDFATHER: Emma Berry Lamb's maternal grandfather, John Hartman 1802-1892, was a biscuit baker. He introduced the famous Trenton oyster cracker to the Philadelphia market.
HARTMANN HERITAGE: John the baker was a son of Jacob E. Hartmann 1755-1814 of Gumbrectshoffen, Alsace, a village that was in Germany until absorbed into France after World War I, and Anna Elizabeth Stein 1776-1864, of Buedingen, Hessen, Germany.
EDUCATION: Attended school in Washington, D.C., where her father Benjamin L. Berry 1818-1887 was in government service.
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ILLNESS: She was hospitalized in Blackwood, NJ for her final 12 yrs. During that time, her mother-in-law, Rachel Chew Lamb, cared for her and three siblings. Her death certificate reports that she suffered from epilepsy
Charles and Emma (known as Virgie) had the following children:
Arthur B. LAMB was born 28 Jan 1893 in Camden, NJ. He died as a child in 1898.
Edith May LAMB was born 18 Feb 1895 and died 29 Jan 1932.
Virginia LAMB was born 22 Dec 1897 and died 21 Feb 1983.
Elsie Marie LAMB was born 20 Jun 1900 and died 29 Aug 1987.
Charles Stevenson LAMB Jr. was born 1 Mar 1903, died 2 Jul 1961 in New York, NY
RELIGION: Emma and Charles were Methodists. They allowed their children to choose churches. Charles, Jr. was a Baptist and Edith a High Episcopalian until turning Catholic the day before she married Leo. Virginia was Baptist, later Lutheran, Elsie Methodist.
MEMORABILIA: Naming of The Emma C. Berry, a restored sailboat at Mystic Seaport, Mystic. CT., is in question. The museum maintains that Capt. John Henry Berry, 48, of Groton CT a "Noank fisherman" (kinship unknown), recorded in 1870 census as a "shipmaster,"
had it built in 1866 and named for a daughter, (Emma, 10 at 1870 census). Family lore contends it honors our Emma Cecilia Berry, born 1868, or perhaps her mother, Emma Cecilia (Hartman) Berry. In any event, the exhibit represents a unique boat class, well smacks. The Emma C Berry has a "well," an open cargo hold for the catch of fish . "Smack" means it is small.
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