A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Emma Deane Clark
From Sorrells Genealogy:
"I went from first grade through high school at Camp Smoky. It was not totally a private school. 5 months were free and Dad paid the rest tuition for the rest of the year. I always knew that as a little girl I was going to Carson Newman" (Emma Deane)
She graduated from Carson Newman College. She taught first grade at Smoky, and one other school she taught all grades one-eight.
She was originally named when a visitor was at her house and heard the children calling her "sister". (Her brothers and sisters were all named after family members, but when she was born, they had used up all the family names.) The visitor told her mother that it was a shame for a two-year old not to have a name. She looked up at the visitor and said,"I do have a name. It is Emma Deane." After that she would no longer answer to "sister". Emma Deane Caton had given her a pair of white Roman sandels and she thought they were beautiful, so she chose to name herself after Emma Deane Caton.
"The church organ was up for sale, so mother gave Laura the money to go and buy it because I was taking piano lessons and needed it to practice." (Emma Deane)
She was called "Nan-Naw" by her granddaughter, Sherry Lynn Sorrells, who could not say Mam-Maw, and it stuck.
She taught school at Phi Beta Phi in Gatlinburg, TN for years. There is a lengthy article on her retirement in records of her granddaughter Sherry S. Finchum.
She passed away during recovery following emergency surgery to repair a hernia in her bowels . Her heart, which had been regulated by a pace-maker for over 10 years, just stopped beating. She had Alzheimer's Disease for many years.
Cause of death: Sepsis, strangulated inguinal hernia
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