Fifth Generation

193. Isaac Emerson "Emmette" DURHAM was born on 13 Aug 1871 in Alabama.^{22,23,36,138,139} Death certificate states birth as "1871", but the 1870 an 1880 Census shows an "Irvin" or "Ervin" with birth as "1867". He died Multiple tumors of unknown etialogy on 28 May 1947 in Moran, Shackelford County, Texas.³⁶ Buried in Albany Cemetery, Moran, Texas. Informant at death listed as "Mrs. I. E. Durham" of Moran, Texas. In the 1920 Census for Shackelford County, Texas (Moran - District 237), Belle Duke, age 73 and "widowed" is listed as "Mother-in-law" in the household of I. E. Durham and wife, Florence.

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Irvin Druham died and is buried in Blue Springs cemetery, Larkinsville, Jackson county, Alabama.

Issac Emerson (Uncle Emmette) is the one that married Florence Elener Duke.
They are buried in the Albany Cemetery in Shackleford, Texas.

Uncle Emmettes half sister, Laura Sims, is my gg grandmother.

I have a picture of uncle emmette if you would like it. Hunting a picture of Catherine Madora Young Sims Durham

Love to you, Patsy Cotten McCloud

Isaac Emerson "Emmette" DURHAM and Florence Elener DUKE were married about 1906.¹³⁹ Florence Elener DUKE (daughter of N. C. DUKE and Isabelle "Belle" DUMAY) was born on 19 Jan 1871 in Arkansas.^36,138,139 She died on 14 Aug 1956 in Big Spring, Howard County, Texas.³⁶ Buried in Moran Cemetery in Moran, Shackelford County, Texas.