Amy Mays Emert is a professional Genealogist with over twenty-five years of personal, professional, and pro bono research experience. She has two degrees from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville: a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology with a concentration in Historical Archaeology, and a Master of Science degree in Teacher Education. Amy is the President of Friends of Cavett Station, Historian of Lonsdale United Methodist Church, and the Genealogist for the Veterans Heritage Site Foundation. She holds memberships with the Cavett Station Chapter DAR, Anderson County Historical Society, the East Tennessee Historical Society, the First Families of Tennessee, and the Civil War Families of Tennessee. Amy has won several awards for her work, including a Project Excellence Award from the East Tennessee Historical Society, and an Excellence in Historic Preservation Award from the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. Amy gives presentations about Mars Hill Cemetery, Alexander Cavett and Cavett’s Station, and on various genealogical and historical topics, and has been interviewed and has appeared on multiple media outlets.

Amy has written and published three books: The Veterans of Mars Hill Cemetery, Mars Hill Cemetery at Historic Cavett’s Station: Biographies and Stories of the Men, Women, and Children Interred in Mars Hill Cemetery, and A Charge to Keep: 125 Years of History and Service in the Lonsdale Community. She contributed four biographical chapters to the TNDAR book Patriots to Pioneers, and had several articles printed in Tennessee Ancestors, the publication of the East Tennessee Historical Society.