Emily H. McCracken
F, b. 4 April 1894, d. 28 August 1981
Emily H. McCracken|b. 4 Apr 1894\nd. 28 Aug 1981|p15045.htm|Columbus McCracken|d. c 1893|p15046.htm|Josephine Bourke|b. 14 Oct 1871\nd. 3 Jul 1966|p15047.htm|||||||William J. Bourke|b. 6 Aug 1833\nd. 22 Dec 1912|p15051.htm|Emily A. Smith|b. 4 Feb 1854\nd. 29 Apr 1941|p15052.htm|
- Father: Columbus McCracken d. circa 1893
- Mother: Josephine Bourke b. 14 October 1871, d. 3 July 1966
- Emily H. McCracken was born on 4 April 1894 in Texas.
- Joseph A. Jones and Josephine Bourke appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Travis County, Texas. Other members of the household included Emily H. McCracken, William Joseph McCracken, Dixie Mae Jones and Melvin Dewey Jones.
- She married (?) Wilkinson circa 1909.
- Joseph A. Jones and Josephine Bourke appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Bend, San Saba County, Texas, living next to Josephine's parents, William and Emily Bourke.. Other members of the household included Emily H. McCracken, Melvin Dewey Jones, Dixie Mae Jones, William Joseph McCracken and William Kempe.
- She married William Kempe, son of Frank Kempe and Ida Alwine Menzer, circa 1912, according to one researcher..
- Joseph A. Jones and Josephine Bourke appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, at 1225 Clinton Avenue. Other members of the household included Emily H. McCracken, Melvin Dewey Jones, Dixie Mae Jones, Raymond Henry Jackson, George Richard Jackson, William Joseph McCracken, William Kempe, Dixie Ruth Kempe, William Dewey Kempe and Emily Angeline Smith. William Kempe and family also were enumerated in Wichita County, likely because the Tarrant enumeration occurred on 15 January and later, on 23 March, in Wichita County.
- William Kempe and Emily H. McCracken appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Wichita County, Texas. Other members of the household included Dixie Ruth Kempe and William Dewey Kempe. The family also was enumerated with Emily's family in Fort Worth, likely because the Tarrant enumeration occurred on 15 January and later, on 23 March, in Wichita County.
- Emily H. McCracken died on 28 August 1981 at age 87 in Tarrant County, Texas.
- She was buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.
- A single grave marker identifies the graves of Emily H. McCracken and Frank Kempe . No other evidence has thus far been found that Frank Kempe was married to Emily McCracken, who earlier was married to his brother William, and was a sister or half-sister of Frank's earlier wife.
- Information on Ida Alwine Menzer and her her origins from Nancy Sinclair
- Last Edited: 5 Jan 2011
Family 1: (?) Wilkinson
Family 2: William Kempe b. 17 March 1887, d. 17 February 1971
- Dixie Ruth Kempe+ b. 11 January 1913, d. 2 January 1991
- William Dewey Kempe+ b. 3 June 1915, d. 22 May 1995
- Esther Lillian Kempe+ b. 3 October 1925
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