Mary Emma Webb was born in 1875.  She was the oldest girl in the family.  She grew up in Mooreville and Amory and at the age of 20, in 1895, she married Henry Dawson York, who was born in 1871 up in Tennessee.  His parents were from Georgia and he became a conductor on the Frisco Railroad.  

Mary Emma and Henry had four children together, and raised them all in Amory.  In 1930, the census recorded them here:

1930 Monroe County, Mississippi Census
Page 20A; #419 6th Street, Amory
York, Henry D. Head Owns Home worth $5,000 M W 59 Md. at age 24 Can read and write TN GA GA Conductor on Steam Railroad
York, Mary E. Wife F W 55 Md. at age 20 Can read and write MS AL MS
York, Herbert C. Son M W 32 Single Can read and write MS TN MS Brakeman on Steam Railroad
York, Frances M. Dau. F W 18 In school Can read and write MS TN MS

Mary was a housewife and cooked quite a lot too.  She always had pretty flowers at the house in town.  She was hard headed too!  She and Henry both had long lives.  Henry passed away at the age of 84, in 1955.  Mary Emma passed away at the age of 93, on October 10, 1968.  She is buried in the Masonic Cemetery in Amory.

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Amory Advertiser
October 17 1968

Services for Mrs Mary Emma York of Amory were held at 3 PM Saturday in Pickle Funeral Home withthe Rev J C Christian and G R Williams officiating. Burial was in Masonic Cemetery. She was 93.

Mrs York died at 11:45 PM Thursday at her home. She was born in Lee County but had resided in Amory in Monroe County 75 years. She was married in 1895 to Henry Dawson York, who died in 1955.

She was a member of First Methodist Church, WSCS Better Homes and Garden Club, Willing Workers Bible Class and a life member of the Eastern Star.

Mrs York leaves two sons, Herbert C and Hansel N York of Amory; two daughters, Mrs P M Hollis and Mrs E L Puckett of Amory; a brother B G Webb of Kosciusko; a sister, Mrs. E L Lucas of Washington DC; six grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.

Nell York (md. Peter M. Hollis)
     Nell was born in 1896 and married Peter in 1920.  He was one year older than her and a cotton buyer for Nash Cotton.  They lived in Amory and did very well for themselves.  

Herbert Clifton York (md. ?)
     Not much is known about Herbert, but he was born in 1898 in Amory and certainly had not married by 1930. He was a conductor on the Frisco Railroad for 50 years!  When he passed away in Amory on April 21, 1982, he was 84 years old.  He was buried in the Masonic Cemetery there.

Hansell Norwood York (md. Miss. Sanders)
     I am somewhat confused with Hansell, but I know he was born on November 26, 1899.  He married in 1924 and had three sons.  He was a switchman on the Railroad, he was the manager for the Amory Country Club, and he was the manager at the Starkville Hotel over the course of his life.  He passed away in Amory on September 25, 1973, at the age of 73.  He was buried at Haughton Memorial Park in Amory.

Mary Frances York (md. Erbie Lee Puckett)
     Mary Frances was born on January 17, 1912.  She married Erbie Lee in 1931 and lived in Amory.  She was a housewife and Erbie Lee was a businessman with interests in a lumberyard and the railroad.  She had five children, but the three boys all died at birth.  Neither Mary nor Erbie Lee had long lives.  Erbie Lee died on June 28, 1968, at the age of 61.  Mary passed away on February 20, 1970, at the age of 58.  They are both buried in the Masonic Cemetery in Amory.