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Just as I think I’ve found as much as I can find directly related to Emmett, something new surfaces! This! Although I’m still missing Emmett’s scrapbook, and I have only a few primary documents that belonged to Emmett, I’ve managed to assemble an extensive collection of Emmett’s signature, beginning with […]
When I last visited Florida in 2015, I spent most of the time going through courthouse archives in search of testimony and notes for the cases Emmett was prosecuting. Although I didn’t find much in the way of notes, I did uncover a load of paperwork with Emmett’s signature, which […]
On March 10, 1918, Emmett’s older brother Percy Brockenbrough Wilson died of tuberculosis. Percy was only 46 years old, a well-respected and admired community physician. Percy’s funeral was held one hundred years ago today, March 12, 1918, in Sneads, Florida. It was likely well attended by most of […]
Originally posted on Bert Fulks:
Are you exhausted from worrying about someone? Weighed down from constantly carrying them in your heart? Okay, friends. Huddle up. One of my favorite football plays is the ol’ Hook-and-Ladder. To pull it off requires some impeccable timing, skill, and trust … but this one…
Although the life and behavior of an alcoholic can be unpredictable, Emmett Wilson appears to have been a man of regular habits, especially when it came to his annual vacation. Every year, on or about the first week of August, Emmett would go to St. Andrews or Panama City for […]
I often check back on several databases, to keep up with new additions from archives or new-to-me sources that may have been added. This past week, I came across two interesting names in the year 1913: Emmett Wilson Harrison (born January 31, 1913, in Okaloosa County Florida) and Emmett Wilson […]
The price on 211 W. Cervantes Street in Pensacola, where Emmett lived with the Kehoe family between 1911 and 1913, has dropped slightly. It can be yours for only $299,000!
One of the things I’ve always found curious about Emmett Wilson’s life was why he never lived on his own, never owned a house, never had his own apartment in which he was responsible for everything (food, furniture, utilities and the like). Emmett was a bachelor with an active and […]
I think Father was trying to tell me something via imposition of ashes today. (He has quite the wry sense of humor.)
As I write Emmett’s story, I always wonder how long he would have lived had he not drank himself to death. Several of the men in his family, particularly his twin brother Julian, were long lived. Emmett was 35 when he died of uremia on May 29, 1918. The website, […]
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