| Birth: | Dec. 21, 1886
Benton County
Mississippi, USA | | Death: | May 17, 1973
New Albany
Union County
Mississippi, USA | 
Emma was educated in the county schools of Benton and Tippah Counties and at Blue Mountain College Normal School. She taught school at Hopewell, Mississippi before her marriage, and at two neighborhood schools, White and Graham. She married Professor Edgar Blizzard of Myrtle, Mississippi on 5 September, 1912, at the home of her parents, William Beauregard Simmons and Lydia Sanders Simmons, west of Blue Mountain. They met at a teachers' convention. Her husband's death left her with two teenagers and two pre-teens to raise, and a couple of farms to manage from her home in New Albany. She never learned to drive, but managed with fortitude and a sense of serenity that made her loved and cherished by many.
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Parents:
William Beauregard Simmons (1859 - 1923)
Lydia Amanda Sanders Simmons (1859 - 1928)
Spouse:
Edgar Sims Blizzard (1872 - 1931)*
Children:
Emma Edwina Blizzard Corcoran (1913 - 1993)*
Ruth Blizzard Bryant (1919 - 1996)*
Jean Blizzard Hardt (1921 - 1976)*
*Calculated relationship
| | | Burial:
Gerizim Cemetery
Myrtle
Union County
Mississippi, USA |
Maintained by: Rick Bryant
Originally Created by: Darrell Rakestraw
Record added: Aug 23, 2006
Find A Grave Memorial# 15476141 |
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