Emma was born in Kentucky and came to Texas with her family, arriving in 1865 and marrying James R Washington, a rancher, in that year. Her family settled elsewhere in north Texas as she made her new home in Cooke County. Her last of six children was Lillian, who was born in 1880, married Charles Emmet Marshall in 1898, and with whom Emma lived in Gainesville from 1899 until her death in 1931.
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