Mississippi Family Group Sheet for the Ernest Earl EMMONS Family *********************************************** Copyright Vicki Burress Roach. All rights reserved. http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.shtml *********************************************** Submitted by: Vicki Burress Roach Email address: Husband: Ernest Earl EMMONS Birthdate: Nov. 4, 1885 Birthplace: Alcorn Co., MS Death date: Feb. 6, 1945 Place of death: Corinth Hospital, Corinth, Alcorn Co., MS Burial: Farmington Cem., Alcorn Co., MS Father: William E. EMMONS Mother: Ida Mae MARTIN Marriage date: Sept. 1906 Marriage place: Wife: Ethel VOYLES Birthdate: Jan. 17, 1889 Birthplace: Corinth, Alcorn Co., MS Death date: July 16, 1959 Place of death: Baptist Hospital, Memphis, Shelby Co., TN Burial: Farmington Cem., Alcorn Co., MS Father: Alford Newton M. VOYLES Mother: Margaret A.S. "Dollie" JOHNSON CHILDREN Child No. 1: Floyd H. EMMONS Sex: M Birthdate: Nov. 18, 1907 Birthplace: Death date: Dec. 24, 1921 Place of death: Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 2: George EMMONS Sex: M Birthdate: Feb. 22, 1909 Birthplace: Death date: Jan. 1928 Place of death: Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Bessie HOWELL Child No. 3: Vera EMMONS Sex: F Birthdate: May 1, 1910 Birthplace: Death date: April 4, 1931 Place of death: Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Shirley BROOKS Child No. 4: Eugene Edward EMMONS Sex: M Birthdate: Feb. 12, 1916 Birthplace: Death date: April 1939 Place of death: Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Martha HARWELL Documentation: NOTES FOR ERNEST EMMONS: 1909 Alcorn Co., MS jurors fee lists E.E. Emmons. 1918 World War I draft registration cards for Alcorn Co., MS lists: Earnest Earl Emmons, white, born Nov. 4, 1885, no birthplace listed 1925 Alcorn Co., MS Educable School Children: McGlathery School Emmons Ernest (parent or guardian) Name of Children: Emmons Geo. age 16 Emmons Vera age 14 Emmons Eugene age 9 VOYLES Mattie age 17 1929 Alcorn Co. MS Educable School Children: Purdy Road School Emmons E.E. (parent or guardian) Children: Eugene age 13 Vera age 18 1930 Alcorn Co., MS census household 111-123 EMMONS Earnest E. head age 44? born MS age 21 when married Ethel wife age 41 born MS age 18 when married Vera dau. age 18 born MS Eugene E. son age 14 born MS Registrar's Record of Deaths for Alcorn Co. for 1945 state his father was W.E. and E.E. Emmons was buried in Farmington Church Cemetery. He was age 59. McPeters Funeral Home Records page 25 Earnest Earl Emmons Nov. 4, 1885 Alcorn Co., MS Feb. 6, 1945 Corinth uremia s.s. 426-20-5824 wife: Ethel Voyles Emmons age 55 son: A.C. Emmons father: W.E. Emmons born TN mother: Ida M. Morton born Alcorn Co., MS Burial: Farmington NOTES FOR ETHEL VOYLES EMMONS: Daily Corinthian Newspaper, Corinth, Mississippi July 16, 1959 MRS. VOYLES DIES IN MEMPHIS Mrs. Ethel Voyles Emmons, 70, of Memphis died at 2:05 a.m. Thursday in the Baptist Hospital. Services will be held Friday afternoon at Farmington Church at a time to be announced later, with the Rev. Barney Proctor officiating. A member of Olive Avenue Mission Church in Memphis, she is survived by two sons, Eugene and George, both of Memphis; one daughter, Mrs. Vera Brooks of Memphis; three sisters, Mrs. Ella Hardin, Mrs. Telia King and Jennie Taylor, all of Corinth. Four brothers, Ed Anderson, John and Allen Voyles, all of Corinth; 12 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren. (Assume they omitted the comma between Ed and Anderson???) Obituary saved by Jewel Burress. MRS. ETHEL EMMONS Mrs. Ethel Emmons, 481 Simpson, died at Baptist Hospital at 2:15 a.m. today. She was 70. A native of Corinth, Miss., Mrs. Emmons moved to Memphis 10 years ago to make her home with a daughter, Mrs. Vera Brooks. She was a member of Olive Avenue Pentecostal Church. She also leaves two sons, George Emmons and Eugene Emmons, both of Memphis; three sisters, Mrs. Ella Hardin, Mrs. Telia King and Mrs. Jenny Morgan, all of Corinth; four brothers, Ed Voyles, Anderson Voyles, John Voyles and Allen Voyles, all of Corinth; 12 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. Services at Farmington Baptist Church, Corinth, Miss., at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow. Burial in church cemetery, National Funeral Home in charge. Daily Corinthian Newspaper, Corinth, Mississippi, July 18-19, 1959 Mrs. Elmer Burres and her aunt, Mrs. Morgan Taylor, returned Tuesday afternoon from Memphis where they were at the bedside of Mrs. Taylor's sister, Mrs. Ethel Emmons who underwent surgery at the Baptist Hospital and is reported as doing nicely. (This must have created a stir in town since she's died two days earlier!!!) .