Emma Bell (Adkins) Davis (1879 - 1968)

Born 1 Mar 1879 in Brookport, Massac, Illinois, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Lora Davis — married 13 Jul 1899 in Massac, Illinois, United States

Descendants

Died 26 Sep 1968 at age 89 in Metropolis, Massac, Illinois, United States

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Biography

When Emma Bell Adkins aka Emmer was born on March 1, 1879, in Massac, Illinois, her father, Charles Barringer "Charley" Adkins, was 52, and her mother, Barsheba Jane Smith, was 44. She married Lora Davis on July 13, 1899, in her hometown Massac County, Illinois, USA. She died in 1963 in Metropolis, Illinois, at the age of 84.

Marriage

Illinois, County Marriage Records, 1800-1940 Name: Emma Bell Adkins Gender: Female Age: 21 Birth Date: abt 1878 Marriage Date: 13 Jul 1899 Marriage Place: Massac, Illinois, USA Father: C B Adkins Mother: Barbara Smith Spouse: Lora Davis Film Number: 000963669

Death & Legacy

U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 Name: Emma Davis Social Security Number: 359-12-5817 Birth Date: 1 Mar 1879 Issue Year: Before 1951 Issue State: Illinois Last Residence: 62995, Vienna, Johnson, Illinois, USA Death Date: Sep 1968

Sources

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXVR-GBG : 20 August 2017), Emmer Bell Adkins in household of Charley B Adkins, Brooklyn, Massac, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district ED 62, sheet 88B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,235.
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122019712/emma-bell-davis
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 17 August 2020), memorial page for Emma Bell Adkins Davis (1 Mar 1879–26 Sep 1968), Find a Grave Memorial no. 122019712, citing Pell Cemetery, Brookport, Massac County, Illinois, USA ; Maintained by quantum (contributor 48253202) .
• 1880 Brooklyn, Massac Co., IL Census.
• Illinois State Marriage Records online.
• "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:H91W-H9W2 : 13 February 2020), Emma Bell Adkins, 1879.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXVR-GBG : 20 August 2017), Emmer Bell Adkins in household of Charley B Adkins, Brooklyn, Massac, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district ED 62, sheet 88B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,235.

• "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK92-KXQ4 : 17 October 2017), Lora Davis and Emma Bell Adkins, 13 Jul 1899; citing Massac, Illinois, United States, county offices, Illinois; FHL microfilm 963,669.

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MS42-W3L : accessed 4 October 2020), Emma B Davis in household of B J Adkins, Brooklyn Precinct Brooklyn vill., Massac, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 48, sheet 7A, family 113, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,329.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MK6P-CVV : accessed 4 October 2020), Emma Davis in household of Lora Davis, Brookport Ward 1, Massac, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 70, sheet 4B, family 102, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 312; FHL microfilm 1,374,325.

• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJHV-KYZ : accessed 4 October 2020), Emma B Davis in household of Lara Davis, Brooklyn, Massac, Illinois, United States; citing ED 85, sheet 10A, line 4, family 227, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 392; FHL microfilm 1,820,392.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS1Z-PRW : accessed 4 October 2020), Emma Davis in household of Lora Davis, Jackson, Massac, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 8, sheet 9B, line 52, family 205, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 544; FHL microfilm 2,340,279.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWCN-GWG : 17 November 2019), Emma David in household of Lora David, Unionville, Jackson Election Precinct, Massac, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 64-8, sheet 8A, line 39, family 160, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 856.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 03 October 2020), memorial page for Emma Bell Adkins Davis (1 Mar 1879–26 Sep 1968), Find a Grave Memorial no. 122019712, citing Pell Cemetery, Brookport, Massac County, Illinois, USA ; Maintained by quantum (contributor 48253202) .

Acknowledgements

• This person was created through the import of PittsPenn_2010-09-21.ged on 22 September 2010.