Florence May "Flora May" Emmons (1859-1907)

EMMONS, BRIGGS, ROE

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/14/2017 at 10:02:45

From Nevada Representative October 30, 1907

OBITUARY

DEATH OF FLORENCE EMMONS

Word has been received in this city today of the death of Miss Florence Emmons, which occurred on Tuesday of this week at the home of her sister, Mrs. Otis F. Briggs, at San Diego, California. The news is an utter surprise to Miss Emmons' friends in Nevada, and it will be received with very great regret. Details are meager; but it is understood that her death is due to a stomach trouble of long standing; and that she had been seriously ill for about a week. Her remains will be brought back to Iowa, and will be buried at Des Moines, where her father is buried. Miss Emmons came to Nevada with her father's family in the '70s, and she remained a resident here until last spring, when she accompanied the family of her brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Briggs, to California, and later located with them at San Diego. She was a woman most highly esteemed in this community, and the sympathy for her family and friends will be very great.

From Nevada Representative November 4, 1907

The remains of Miss Florence Emmons arrived in Iowa Saturday night in charge of Mr. and Mrs. Otis F. Briggs, who had made a quick trip from Santa Ana, California, and were taken to the home of her sister, Mrs. Ole O. Roe of Des Moines. The funeral will be held in that city some time today. Mr. and Mrs. Dutton met the funeral party Saturday evening at Boone and have been with them in Des Moines over Sunday. Other friends would go down from Nevada this morning.

From Nevada Representative November 6, 1907

OBITUARY

FLORENCE EMMONS

The funeral of Miss Florence Emmons was held Monday afternoon at one o'clock at the home in Des Moines of her sister, Mrs. Ole O. Roe, the services being conducted by the Presbyterian pastor in that city assisted by the Lutheran pastor. Mrs. Otis F. Briggs, also sister of the deceased accompanied the remains from Santa Ana, California, where Miss Emmons died; and numerous friends were down from Nevada.

Miss Emmons was born in Ohio November 3, 1859, and at the time of her death lacked but a few days of being 48 years of age. She came with her father and sisters to Nevada in 1877 and resided here for thirty years, removing with her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Briggs, to California only last spring. She was for a number of years librarian of the city library, and always she was well known and most highly esteemed in this community.

In the same issue of the newspaper:

Mrs. Grace Briggs, who accompanied the body of her sister, Miss Florence Emmons from California, is spending the week in Des Moines with her sister there, Mrs. Ole O. Roe; but she is expected by her friends in Nevada next week.