Emily was a fine singer, who was often mentioned in the pages of the Niagrara Falls Gazette. For example, on Monday, Dec 20, 1926, the Gazette reported on a concert at First Presbyterian Church, Niagara Falls: “Miss Emily Tragheim sang a solo at the service. Miss Tragheim has a soft, mellow contralto voice and her rendition of ‘No candle was there, and no Fire,’ by Liza Lehman, was delightfully presented.” This was less than a year before her marriage to James Lewis.

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Niagara Falls Gazetta, Saturday, September 3, 1927

A quiet but pretty wedding was solemnized on Thursday, Sept. 1st, at 2089 Culp street, by Rev. S. L. W. Harton, pastor of Lundy's Lane United church, when Emily Jan Ayton, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Tragheim of Glasgow, Scotland, became the bride of James Norman Palmer Leis of Orlando, Florida. After the ceremony, Mr/ and Mrs. Lewis left for New York enroute to their home in Orlando, Florida.

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Emily continued to sing in church in Orlando, and to appear on the radio:

Niagara Gazette, Monday, January 23, 1950
Miss Alice Babcock Trott to End Long Career as Church Music Director Here.
...Mrs. Emily Tragheim Lewis, who sings at the first Methodist Church, Orlando, Fla., is prominent in musical circles there and does a great deal of radio work.

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http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maryc/wland1927.htm
022681-27 James Norman Palmer LEWIS, 59, employment agent, widower, Canada, Orlando Florida, s/o Zenas Beach LEWIS, b. Winona & Ellen PALMER, married Emily Jane Ayton TRAGHEIM, 36, clerk, Peebles Scotland, Niagara Falls, d/o Edward TRAGHEIM, b. Newcastle-on-Tyne England & Elizabeth Jane Ayton MCCOLL, witn: James BOYD of 2089 Culp St & Miss Antoinette PINGELL of 612 4th St Niagara Falls NY, 1 September 1927 at Niagara Falls

Immigration record:
Name:
Emily Tragheim
Gender:
Female
Estimated birth year:
abt 1891
Birth Place:
Peebles, Scotland
Age:
32
Date of Arrival:
May 1923
Port of Arrival:
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Port of Departure:
Glasgow, Scotland


Ship Name: Athenia


[Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Canada, Ocean Arrivals (Form 30A), 1919-1924 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009.

Original data: Library and Archives Canada. Form 30A, 1919-1924 (Ocean Arrivals). Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, n.d. RG 76. Department of Employemnet and Immigration Fonts. Microfilm Reels: T-14939 to T-15248.]

Emigrated 19 Apr 1923, with her friend, Mary Donaldson, who was also a domestic and who also lived at 18 Helen St, Govan, and her sister Robina and Robina’s husband, James Boyd.