Emily Honor McCracken

Emily Honor McCracken

• Father: Columbus McCracken d. circa 1893
• Mother: Josephine Bourke b. 14 October 1871, d. 3 July 1966

• Emily Honor McCracken was born on 4 April 1894 in Travis County, 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 Honor 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 Honor McCracken, Melvin Dewey Jones, Dixie Mae Jones, William Joseph McCracken and William M. Kempe.
• She married William M. 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 Honor McCracken, Melvin Dewey Jones, Dixie Mae Jones, Raymond Henry Jackson, George Richard Jackson, William Joseph McCracken, William M. 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 M. Kempe and Emily Honor 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.
• William M. Kempe and Emily Honor McCracken appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, at 1227 Lindon. Other members of the household included Esther Lillian Kempe, Frank Kempe, Max J. Dyson, Emily Josephine Kempe and William Dewey Kempe.
• William M. Kempe registered for the draft in 1942 while living with Emily Kempe at 329 Hassett Avenue in Fort Worth; no employer is named, and Frank Kempe is living at the same address.
• Emily Honor McCracken died on 28 August 1981 at age 87 in River Oaks, Tarrant County, Texas, at 329 Hassett Avenue at her residence.
• She was interred at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.
• A single grave marker identifies the graves of Emily Honor McCracken and Frank Kempe.
• Source: Information on Ida Alwine Menzer and her her origins from Nancy Sinclair (May 2010), and "Bourke and Bass Families of Texas" by Sylvia Ann Bass (Genealogy.com FTM Online, April 2009).

• Last Edited: 4 Oct 2015