The United States used to have a mortality schedule from 1850 - 1880 for those that died in the year prior to the regular census. Olive (Jacobs) Emery, wife of Henry Emery passed away September 26, 1859 of consumption which we know today as tuberculosis. Olive died in Weller township, Henry county, Illinois.
Olive's entry is number 20. The schedule indicates she was born in New York which matches the 1850 US Census. Most family trees I have encountered indicate Olive was born in Pennsylvania, possibly Philadelphia yet no one has been able to confirm her location of birth or the names of her parents.
If anyone has cracked the case on Olive's ancestry, please leave a message in the comments.
Olive was, indeed, born in New York. Her family moved to Ohio in 1819 then farther east, scattering into various Midwestern states. For more see the Find-a-Grave page of her father, Henry Jacobs. (Note: Olive's daughter, Edith Caroline, is buried in the same cemetery as Olive's mother, Elizabeth Seely Jacobs.)
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DeleteI have spent so much time trying to find the names of Olive's mother and father for almost two decades. It was a frustrating roadblock which you have solved. If you have additional information on the Seely and Jacobs family, please let me know, particularly if you are familiar with possible service during the American Revolutionary War.
Thank you so much.