Rice, John Hartman, Thomas Dromgold, and kindred families who had settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania prior to the American Revolutionary War, in which they fought.

She had attended the public schools here, but two years after her mother's death, with a brother, she went to York, Pennsylvania, where her father, of the firm of Hench & Dromgold, was engaged in the manufacturing business.

[1] There she continued her studies in the public schools, in the Collegiate Institute of York,[1] and the Peabody Conservatory of Music.

[1] Emig traced her ancestry to the following patriots of the Revolutionary War: John Hench, Jacob Hartman, Zachariah A.

[3] In 1909, she organized a Society of Children of the American Revolution (NSCAR), which was named by Helen Herron Taft in honor of her ancestor, Thomas Welles, the fourth colonial governor of Connecticut.

[1] It was through the interest created by the Hench and Dromgold Reunions held in Perry County that Emig became enthusiastic about genealogical work.

Gladys and Lelia were among the first women to enroll as Yoemen, First Class, in the U.S. Navy, and Evelyn was in the office of the Adjutant General.