OBITUARY Chattanooga Paper (TIMES?) Oct 24, 1945 MRS. EMMA WELLS DIES AT HER HOME Funeral Services Will Be Held Today at 11 a.m. Mrs. Emma MIDDLETON WELLS, 77 widely known and beloved here for her philanthropic and welfare work over a span of many years, died at her home at 833 Oak Street yesterday morning. Mrs. WELLS was one of the city's best known citizens and was a philanthropist from the time of her early womanhood. She was born at Elizabethtown, KY., on Nov 5, 1867, the daughter of Capt. Hugh MIDDLETON and Mary CARTER MIDDLETON. After her marriage to Mr. WELLS, she went with him to Rockwood, where he was manager of the Roane Coal and Iron Company there. They returned to Chattanooga about eight years later. She was outstanding in welfare work here, not only in the First Presbyterian Church, of which she was a member for many years, but throughout the city. She was a charter member and a lifelong President of the Old Ladies Home, and also was active in the Chattanooga Writers' Club, the Gen. A. P. Stewart Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Chattanooga Women's Press Club and the American Red Cross. INTERESTED IN LEWIS MISSION Mrs. WELLS was also interested in Lewis Mission on Chestnut Street, and she and her husband established the Citico Mission 40 years ago, which now exists under another name. It was at her suggestion that the letters of the missionaries of the old Brainerd Mission were reproduced on microfilm and placed in the Chattanooga Library. Interested in history, she wrote a history of Roane County, and she also wrote much concerning the activities of the women in her church. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Edward BLAKE, and one brother, Charles B. MIDDLETON of Hollywood, Calif. Members of her family have requested that no flowers be sent for the funeral. The services will be held today at 11 a.m. at the First Presbyterian Church, with the pastor, the Rev. James L. FOWLE, officiating. Interment will be in Forest Hills Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be John BROWN, Dr. Stewart LAWWILL, Robert FRIERSON, William PRESSLEY, Clifford DUKE, and Sam CHESTER. Honorary pallbearers will be the elders and deacons of the church. They will meet at the church at 10:15 a.m. (This is a 2nd cousin twice removed of mine - does anyone have any MIDDLETONS, WELLS, or CARTERS?) ** Charles B. MIDDLETON (her brother) was an actor in Hollywood "Best remembered as that satanic practitioner of doom, Emperor Ming the Merciless, in the famous 'Flash Gordon' serials of 1936 through 1940." http://us.imdb.com/Name?Middleton,+Charles+(I Thank you, Donna Fitzgerald Hamilton Co., TN dbfit@bellsouth.net