Hopkins Co TX - Mrs. Emma Martin Obituary





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Hopkins Co TX -Obituary - Mrs. Emma Martin





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Mrs. Emma Martin passed away Monday morning at her home at Addran. She was


near 73 years of age. The deceased is survived by three children, Ethel and


Willie of Addran, and Ollie of Sulphur Springs. Funeral services and burial


were held at Aiguire Cemetery. She was a member of the M. E. Church (Hopkins


Co. Echo, Feb. 9, 1934) Later reported - She died Feb. 5, 1934. Aunt Emma, who


was before her marriage, Emma Clark, was 72 (sic) years old at her death. She


was born in Alabama. Her father was killed before her birth in the civil war.


Her mother lived until she was only six weeks old. Her life then, for a few


years, was rather mythical and with little known of it, only that she was


moved from there to Tenn. and later to Ark., cared for by different ones of no


relation to her. At the age of eleven, she was brought to Texas by Dr. Carroll


Bradford of Birthright. She lived in this home until her marriage to Mr. J. B.


Martin in Dec. 1879, of the Addran Community. She was buried beside her


husband in the Aiguire Cemetery