Notes for Emma Thurman Heidle: According to Patricia Keeble Noble, descendant of Emma Thurman Heidle's brother John Carey Heidle, the children of Phillip Thurman Heidle and Mary Britt were one quarter Indian.
Emma married Joseph Jackson Jordan in Georgia about 1878. Their first three children were born in Pike County, Georgia. About 1884 they moved to east Texas and settled first in Wood County and later in Camp County. Emma and J. J. Jordan raised a family of eight children and in 1905 were granted custody of their granddaughter, Evelyn Mae Pruett age 4, after the the deaths of their daughter Rosa Bell and her husband Oscar Farrar Pruett.
Joseph and Emma Jordan moved from Camp Co. Texas to Roosevelt County, New Mexico in 1907 with their family of four kids still living at home plus granddaughter Evelyn Pruett 6. They bought Ozie Pruett's homestead and lived with their eldest son Henry Monroe Jordan and his wife Dora Belle Pruett until their house was built and ready to move into nearby.
Emma Jordan bought and sold land in Hale Co. Texas after her husbands death in 1914. It appears she sold all her land in 1920. In 1922 Emma traveled back home to Georgia to attend a family reunion at the home of her first cousin Martha Lavinia Britt (daughter of Robert Harris Britt) with her sister Mary Ellie of Barnesville, Georgia. Emma, at age 60, was remembered for playing and having so much fun with all the children at the reunion.
Emma lived the last ten years of her life in Amarillo, Texas. She was residing with her youngest daughter Ruth Orrill at 216 West 16th Street in Amarillo when she became ill with Uremia in February 1933. Emma died at St. Anthony's Hospital on March 1, 1933. Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home of Amarillo conducted final arrangements.
Sources: Hidle Heidle Hydle Family Tree by Gerald L. & Joan Hidle The Pruett Pruitt Family by Haskell Pruett Ph.D. History of Pike County, Georgia, 1822-1989; Published 1989; The Retired Teachers of Pike County and Pike County Journal & Reporter: Pgs. 518-519 (F355). HEIDLE - BRITT FAMILY (by: Patricia Keeble Noble) Death Record #00221 Amarillo, Potter Co. Texas
Census: 1870 Pike Co. Georgia, page 10/118. Listed as "Emma T. Heidle" 8, born GA, attending school. 1880 Pike Co. Georgia, E.D. 102, page 15/29A. Listed as "Emma Jordan" 18, born GA. 1900 Camp Co. Texas, E.D. 16, page 12A. Listed as "Emma Jordan" 38, b. MAR 1862 GA. 1910 Roosevelt Co. New Mexico, E.D. 177 Sheet 1/695. Listed as "Emma T. Jordon" 48, born GA. 1920 Hale Co. Texas E.D. 104 sheet 13B/269. Listed as "Emma Jordon" 58. 1930 Potter Co. Texas, Amarillo City, Harrison Street, E.D. 188-13, Sheet 13A, Family #297. Listed as "Emma Jordan" 67, Rents home $30, has radio, widow, born GA GA GA, no occupation.
More About Emma Thurman Heidle: Burial: March 03, 1933, Amarillo, Potter Co. Texas.
More About Emma Thurman Heidle and Joseph Jackson Jordan: Marriage: Abt. 1878, Georgia.
Children of Emma Thurman Heidle and Joseph Jackson Jordan are:
+Henry Monroe Jordan, b. August 13, 1879, Pike Co. Georgia, d. June 13, 1937, Las Vegas, San Miguel Co. New Mexico.
Emma Thurman Heidle (b. April 10, 1862, d. March 01, 1933)
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