Shelby County TN Biographies

Emma Ann Williams Stevens
submitted by Peggy Rhinerson

Emma Ann Williams Stevens was born December 16, 1858 at Shalles Township, Allegheny County, PA.

Emma Ann Williams was the daughter of Sgt. David Richard Williams and Arabella Foreman Williams.  David Richard Williams died November 6, 1880, Memphis,

Shelby, TN and is buried in Memphis National Cemetery.  Arabelle Foreman Williams

died March 21, 1897 in Shelby County and is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery-Midtown,

Memphis, Shelby, TN.

Emma Ann Williams married James Wharton Stevens on February 22, 1879, Shelby County.

The children of Emma Ann Williams Stevens and James Wharton Stevens are:

1.     Emma Gertrude Stevens (Mrs. William S. Randolph, Sr.)

2.     Jimetta Stevens (Mrs. Eugene Johnson Bettis)

3.     Margaret Louise Stevens (Mrs. Robert Burgher Pirtle)

4.     Arrabelle Stevens (Mrs. Tommy G. Tucker)

1880 census, Davidson County, TN:  James Charles Stevens, Jr. (55), Amanda (53),

            William G. (20), and family of James Wharton Stevens (22), Emma Ann (24),

            and baby Emma Gertrude (5/12)

1890 No census

1900 Can not find

1910 census, Memphis, Shelby, TN, ED 240, page 211, James Wharton Stevens (51),

            Emma Ann (53), daughter Arrabelle (22), brother, Charles George (42), and

            family Robert Burgher Pirtle (29), Margaret Louise Stevens Pirtle (27), and

daughter, Eva R Pirtle (7).

1920 census, Chattanooga, Hamilton, TN:  James Wharton Stevens (62), Emma Ann

(62), with Robert Burgher Pirtle (39) and wife, Margaret Louise Stevens Pirtle,

(37) and daughter, Eva R Pirtle (17).

James Wharton Stevens died January 16, 1930 in Memphis, Shelby, TN and buried in

            Forest Hill Cemetery-Midtown, Memphis, TN.

Emma Ann Williams Stevens died December 1, 1921 in Chattanooga, TN while staying

            with her daughter, Margaret Louise Stevens Pirtle because of illness.  She was

            buried in Forest Hill Cemetery-Midtown, Memphis, Shelby, TN.

The girls left to right, pic made about 1890:  with married last names.
    JImetta Stevens (Bettis)
    Margaret Louise Stevens (Pirtle)
    Arrabelle Stevens (Tucker)
    Emma Gertrude Stevens (Randolph)

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