EMMA VANHOOSE
1866-1947
Emma Dixon Van Hoose was born in Magoffin County, Kentucky,
September the seventeenth eighteen hundred and sixty six. She was
the oldest, of ten children born to her father and mother, Isaac
and Ella (May) Dixon. Their being; Tobe, Alonza, Staffordsville,
Ky.; Clark, Jackson, Ohio; Minnie, Guy, Wittensville, Ky.; Mrs.
Warren Van Hoose, Frankfort, Ky., Don, Ashland, Ky., Mrs. James
McKenzie, Wittensville, Ky., Mrs. Langley Preston, Witensville,
Ky.,
Early in her childhood, Isaac and Ella, her father and mother moved
to the headwaters of Rush Fork, Johnson County, Kentucky, where she
spent her childhood and early womanhood.
At the age of fourteen years, on December the twenty ninth,
Eighteen Hundred and Eighty one, she was married to Marion Van
Hoose, the son of another native mountain family, and to this union
were born eight children, G. D., Mrs. Elro Van Hoose, Sally,
Arascus, Hoy, Tutor Key, Madgie Stapleton, Paintsville and Minnie.
G. D., Mrs. B. B. Vanhoose, Sally M. and Minnie preceded her in
death some years ago.
In the lane or road of life, Marion fell by the way of death and in
Nineteen Hundred and eight she was married to Harry Van Hoose and
to this union was born one child Mrs. Gladis Burchett.
On December the twelfth, Nineteen Hundred and Twenty six he also
passed by the way of death.
Aunt Emma, as she was so dearly known by all her neighbors and
friends was one of the country’s best mothers. At the early age of
seventeen she gave God her heart and was saved.
Paintsville Herald
Thursday
30 Jan 1947
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