A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Emerlee Scarborough
There was confusion about her name, but it is finally resolved. "Arkansas Marriage Index, 1933-1939" on Ancestry.com lists a marriage between Sam Wilson and Emer L. Landry. "Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957" lists a marriage between Sam Wilson and Ema Lee Landry. John Brommer thought her name was Emily, and he knew her. However, Sam Wilson's WWII draft registration card (on Ancestry.com) shows his wife as Mrs. Emerlee Scarborough Wilson, and a 1940 Memphis city directory (on Ancestry.com) lists her as Emerlee S Wilson. John Brommer told me that she had a son named Ronald Lee Taylor. Indeed, the 1940 census lists her as Emerlee Wilson (transcribed poorly by Ancestry as Emenler Wean, but someone has added the correct spelling as a variant). Ronald Taylor, age 12, is listed in the household as a son. She was working in a printing shop and Sam was working as a salesman. She apparently had earlier marriages to a Taylor and a Landry. Find A Grave shows her parents as Oliver Scarborough and Fannie B. Bennet, and that she had a later marriage to Jack Byron Duke.
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN), 8 Dec 1987 (obtained from Find A Grave, listing for Emmerlee Scarborough Duke):
MRS. EMERLEE S. DUKE, 84, of Memphis, died Sunday evening at Hillhaven Convalescent Center after a long illness. Graveside services will be at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown, Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel. She was a Baptist. She was the widow of Jack B. Duke, and leaves a son, Ron Taylor, a brother, C. O. Scarborough, both of Memphis, a grandson and two great-grandsons.
Note: Some of the information in these pages is uncertain. Please let me know of errors or omissions using the email link above. ...Mike Wilson
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