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Note: NEWSPAPER OBIT SENT BY JIM COCKRUM (SEPT 1997)
EMMA A. FISHER, DAUGHTER OF JESSE JAMES AND NANCY MIDYETT, WAS BORN IN SIMPSON CO., KY., MARCH 6, 1857, DIED AT HER HOME IN CHRISTOPHER, ILLINOIS, AUGUST 14, 1942, AT THE AGE OF 85 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AND 8 DAYS. AT AN EARLY AGE SHE PROFESSED FAITH IN CHRIST AND UNITED WITH THE PREBYSTERIAN CHURCH, LATER IN THE YEAR OF 1886 ALONG WITH HER MOTHER AND 5 BROTHERS MOVED TO FRANKLIN CO., ILLINOIS IN WHUCH SHE LIVED THESE 56 YEARS. DECEMBER 1889 SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO WILLIAM A. REA AND TO THIS UNION 2 CHILDREN WERE BORN WHO SURVIVE TO MOURN HER GOING. ABOUT THE YEAR 1890 SHE UNITED WITH THE MT. PLEASANT BAPTIST CHURCH, THE CHURCH IN WHICH HER HUSBAND WAS A MEMBER. TO THIS SAME CHURCH SHE HAD REMAINED ONE OF ITS LOYAL MEMBER UNTIL HER PASSING. HER HUSBAND, WILLIAM A. REA, PASSED TO HIS REWARD FEBRUARY 1893. IN 1896 SHE WAS MARRIED TO JOHN F. BURKETT WHO PASSED AWAY IN THE YEAR 1900, AGAIN IN 1919 SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO WILLIAM A. FISHER OF MACEDONIA, WHO DIED IN APRIL 1925. SINCE THAT TIME, MRS. FISHER HAS MADE HER HOME ALONE IN THE CITY OF CHRISTOPHER. SHE LEAVES TO MOURN HER GOING, ONE DAUGHTER: MRS. GRACE COCKRUM OF CHRISTOPHER; ONE SON: J. PALMER REA OF CALIER; ONE BROTHER: G.A. MIDYETT OF VALIER; 2 STEP-CHILDREN: MRS. EFFIE HAYS OF VALIER, AND MRS. C.C. HALL OF SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA; 7 GRANDCHILDREN; 5 STEP-GRANDCHILDREN; AND 2 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.
(Bayfield Funeral Service, Sesser, Illinois)
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