When Emily Melissa Nokes was born in 1827, in Franklin, Vermont, United States, her father, John Nokes, was 18 and her mother, Hannah Twombly, was 16. She married Sidney Clark Raymond on 21 May 1843, in Brown Township, Champaign, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 7 daughters. She lived in Brown, Illinois, United States in 1850 and Lee Township, Brown, Illinois, United States in 1880. She died on 9 August 1907, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 80.