Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, January 11, 1868, page 3


    ASHLAND HOTEL.--Mr. E. Emery is keeping the hotel at Ashland, and right well does he attend to patrons. Parties from town here will find it a pleasant drive to  Ashland, and take dinner with "mine host" Emery.Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, May 2, 1868, page 2


    BUSINESS CHANGES IN ASHLAND.--Messrs. Emery & Blake have dissolved their co-partnership in the cabinet business, and the latter gentleman has entered into partnership with J. R. Helman, in the carpenter business, under the name of Blake & Helman. They are prepared to do all kinds of building at the very lowest rates.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, May 23, 1868, page 3


    ENLARGING.--Mr. Eber Emery of Ashland has torn the roof off from this house and built it larger, so that he can accommodate the increasing patronage which he is receiving.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, August 15, 1868, page 3

    Eber Emery died about nine o'clock last Thursday evening at his home at Gold Hill. One hour and a half before he was well and hearty and engaged in making some improvements about the porch of his residence, when he was suddenly stricken with a fatal attack of heart disease and was conscious only a few minutes between the attack and death. His wife assisted him into the house and Dr. Colvig was immediately summoned.
    Mr. Emery was within four days of 72 years of age, a pioneer and an estimable and exemplary citizen. He came to this city in 1850 from Ashland, Ohio, and with James Cardwell, who was from Ashland, Ky., Clay's home town, christened this village. Mr. Emery and his pioneer partners built the first sawmill and grist mill ever constructed in Southern Oregon, both of which were in Ashland, the sawmill being erected in 1852 on the present Ashland woolen mill site, and the Ashland flouring mill at its present location in 1854.
    The funeral was in Central Point burying ground Saturday morning at 11 o'clock, Rev. Mr. Burnett of the Christian church conducting the services. A large congregation of people from all parts of the valley were present to pay their respects to the dead citizen.
Valley Record, Ashland, July 23, 1891, page 3

    Mrs. Sophia Emery of Gold Hill spent several days after attending the pioneers' reunion last week, visiting the family of her son in Ashland, H. S. Emery.
"Twenty-Five Years Ago in Ashland," Ashland Tidings, September 18, 1916, page 2

    Mrs. Sophia Emery, or "Grandma Emery," as she was familiarly known to her intimate friends, died Monday, May 3, at the home of her adopted daughter, Mrs. James Davis, of Tolo, aged 94 years, one month and eighteen days. Interment was in Central Point Cemetery, where she was laid to rest by the side of her husband, who was buried there in 1891. The funeral services were conducted by the Rebekah lodge of Gold Hill, which lodge she was a member of at the time of her death. She was the oldest living Rebekah in the state, having joined in 1854.
    She was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1820. When a young woman she moved to Ashland County, Ohio. She was then Miss Sophia Hoover, and when in Ohio she met Eber Emery, to whom she was married in 1841. They emigrated to Oregon in 1850. There was nothing out of the ordinary in the life of this young couple, until they came to this state by way of the Isthmus of Panama, which route was then beginning to be used. They traveled overland by pack team. They were destined to become actively instrumental in the upbuilding of Southern Oregon.
    Mr. Emery, being a millwright as well as a first-class miller, located on the present site of Ashland, Ore., and commenced the erection of a flouring mill in 1851, and a sawmill in 1851 and 1852. He was possessed of considerable means and was counted among the influential citizens in this then decidedly new country. He gave to the settlement the name of Ashland from his home county in Ohio. At that time little was thought of the prosperous town which would afterwards occupy the present site of Ashland, and while many of the present facilities which are enjoyed by the residents were hoped for, they were so remote as to occupy the thoughts but for a moment.
    Mr. Emery afterwards erected the Ashland House, which has since been enlarged to a hostelry of no mean proportions, and it still stands and is a monument to the foresight of this plain couple, who were imbued with that spirit of adventure which has actuated so many of our American citizens.
    During the Indian wars companies of cavalry were wont to assemble around the old mill, and there train for service. [There was no U.S. Cavalry present in Southern Oregon during the Indian wars; these would have been companies of volunteer militia.]
    After spending several years in Oregon they went back east in 1858 and returned in 1859, and through their reports of the territory others were induced to visit the new land.
    Mr. Emery died in Gold Hill in 1891, which, when they moved there, was only a way station on the Southern Pacific.
    Mr. and Mrs. Emery had no children of their own, but reared several adopted children, among them being Mrs. Lulu Davis of Tolo and H. S. Emery of Ashland.
    They were both devout Christians, being members of the Christian church.
Ashland Tidings, May 11, 1914, page 1