Emeline and her sisters Sarah and Elizabeth were field nurses during the War between the States. They tended wounded or sick troops in South Carolina and Georgia.[2][3]
On 11 Sep 1864, she married Robert A. Lumpkin, and they remained in Oconee County, South Carolina until around 1870, when they moved to Sevier County, Tennessee, where her family was living.[2] Emeline and Robert had two children:[4]
John Calhoun (1866-1900)
Mary Elizabeth (1871-1899)
Emaline passed away on 4 May 1921. She was buried in Beech Springs Cemetery, Kodak, Sevier County, Tennessee.[5]
Sources
↑1860 U.S. Federal Census Ancestry.com Year: 1860; Census Place: Regiment 2, Pickens, South Carolina; Roll: M653_1225; Page: 104; Family History Library Film: 805225
↑ 2.02.1 Petrisky, Larry. Atlanta, GA; March 2004. "Old John Hembree," Third Draft Hembree Genealogy
↑1860 U.S. Federal Census Ancestry.com Year: 1860; Census Place: Regiment 2, Pickens, South Carolina; Page: 104; Family History Library Film: 805225
↑1880 U.S. Federal Census Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Year: 1880; Census Place: District 22, Knox, Tennessee; Roll: 1265; Page: 302B; Enumeration District: 155
↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5382173/emaline-lumpkin: accessed 14 September 2022), memorial page for Emaline Lumpkin (5 Mar 1842–4 May 1921), Find A Grave: Memorial #5382173, citing Beech Springs Cemetery, Kodak, Sevier County, Tennessee, USA; Maintained by Virgil & DeAnna Hancock-Cooley (contributor 36950484) .
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