The Emerson family · est. America 1755

Nine generations, from the frontier to today.

This is the full family tree of the Emerson line — from the first Emersons on the American frontier in the 1750s, down through Kentucky, to Jeanette and her family today — together with every allied line that married into it: Spaw, Luttrell, Gilpin, Rainwater, Wilson, Turpin, Stroud, Dick, Russell, Wesley, and more.

Every Emerson from the 1750s frontier to Jeanette today — every fact linked to its source.

Click or tap any person for their story, their relationship to Jeanette, and every source linkViews: the descendants of the frontier family, and Jeanette’s ancestors — “Show tree from here” on anyone follows any branchCompiled from free public records · conflicts flagged, never hidden

Everyone in this tree

All 289 people in the record, A to Z by family name — including the aunts, uncles and cousins who married in or branched off. Each is labelled with their relationship to Jeanette; click any name to open their full story and every source link.

The deep lines

Every surname that married into the family, followed as far back as the records allow — twelve of them reach Europe in the 1600s or earlier.

How this was researched

Every person and date on this page traces to a record fetched and checked against at least one independent source during research in October 2026. Where sources disagree — a gravestone against a family history, one county index against another — both versions are recorded and the conflict is flagged on the person’s card, never silently resolved.

The tree was built from free public records, including:

Find A Grave — memorial pages, family sections, and cemetery rosters (including the Emerson family farm cemetery in Pickaway County, Ohio, and the Spaw cemetery in Casey County, Kentucky)
KYGenWeb — the Casey County marriage index (1800–1900), cemetery lists, and obituaries
WikiTree — linked family profiles, used to follow the Spaw, Gilpin, Luttrell, Turpin, and Wesley lines
FamilySearch — tree records for the Emerson, Rainwater, and Daws families
WeRelate, archive.org (the 1906 History of Pickaway County, Ohio), the Rainwater one-name study, and the compiled Turner/Phelps family history

Living family members appear by name only, with no dates or contact details. This page is kept out of search engines on purpose.