FORMER NEGRO SLAVE, 104 YEARS OLD DIES AT HOME IN THIS CITY
Mrs. Emla Moore, colored, familiarly known as "Aunt Emla" died at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the advanced age of 101 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Bowman on Revenswood road.
"Aunt Emla" said to have been the oldest person in this section of the country, came here several years ago from Ewing, Va., where she had lived all her life. She was born ten years later than the Great Emancipator, whose edict making her free came when she was nearly fifty years of age. White Fugate of this city says that she worked for his grandfather at his Virginia home.
She is survived by three sons and one daughter.
Funeral services were conducted at the Bowman residence at 2 o'clock this afternoon by the Rev. Coleman, pastor of the colored Baptist church. Interment was in the Colson cemetery. Carl Newman, funeral director, had charge of the burial.
Middlesboro Daily News; Middlesboro, Kentucky.
May 28, 1923; Page One.
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Parents: David Moore and Teba Oply
Mrs. Emla Moore, colored, familiarly known as "Aunt Emla" died at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the advanced age of 101 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Bowman on Revenswood road.
"Aunt Emla" said to have been the oldest person in this section of the country, came here several years ago from Ewing, Va., where she had lived all her life. She was born ten years later than the Great Emancipator, whose edict making her free came when she was nearly fifty years of age. White Fugate of this city says that she worked for his grandfather at his Virginia home.
She is survived by three sons and one daughter.
Funeral services were conducted at the Bowman residence at 2 o'clock this afternoon by the Rev. Coleman, pastor of the colored Baptist church. Interment was in the Colson cemetery. Carl Newman, funeral director, had charge of the burial.
Middlesboro Daily News; Middlesboro, Kentucky.
May 28, 1923; Page One.
dm wms (#47395868)
___________________________________________________
Information below kindly provided by B. D. Rutherford (#48000573). Thanks.
Parents: David Moore and Teba Oply
FORMER NEGRO SLAVE, 104 YEARS OLD DIES AT HOME IN THIS CITY
Mrs. Emla Moore, colored, familiarly known as "Aunt Emla" died at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the advanced age of 101 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Bowman on Revenswood road.
"Aunt Emla" said to have been the oldest person in this section of the country, came here several years ago from Ewing, Va., where she had lived all her life. She was born ten years later than the Great Emancipator, whose edict making her free came when she was nearly fifty years of age. White Fugate of this city says that she worked for his grandfather at his Virginia home.
She is survived by three sons and one daughter.
Funeral services were conducted at the Bowman residence at 2 o'clock this afternoon by the Rev. Coleman, pastor of the colored Baptist church. Interment was in the Colson cemetery. Carl Newman, funeral director, had charge of the burial.
Middlesboro Daily News; Middlesboro, Kentucky.
May 28, 1923; Page One.
dm wms (#47395868)
___________________________________________________
Information below kindly provided by B. D. Rutherford (#48000573). Thanks.
Parents: David Moore and Teba Oply
Mrs. Emla Moore, colored, familiarly known as "Aunt Emla" died at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the advanced age of 101 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Bowman on Revenswood road.
"Aunt Emla" said to have been the oldest person in this section of the country, came here several years ago from Ewing, Va., where she had lived all her life. She was born ten years later than the Great Emancipator, whose edict making her free came when she was nearly fifty years of age. White Fugate of this city says that she worked for his grandfather at his Virginia home.
She is survived by three sons and one daughter.
Funeral services were conducted at the Bowman residence at 2 o'clock this afternoon by the Rev. Coleman, pastor of the colored Baptist church. Interment was in the Colson cemetery. Carl Newman, funeral director, had charge of the burial.
Middlesboro Daily News; Middlesboro, Kentucky.
May 28, 1923; Page One.
dm wms (#47395868)
___________________________________________________
Information below kindly provided by B. D. Rutherford (#48000573). Thanks.
Parents: David Moore and Teba Oply
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