This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HlB.2ACI/2399.1 Message Board Post: The Jacksboro Gazette Thursday, February 13, 1919 In memory of Mrs. Emma L. Knox, wife of Mr. James W. Knox, who passed into eternity on Monday, 20 January 1919. Mrs. Knox was a native of Pennsylvania, descended from one of the old and prominent families of Pennsylvania. Born at Mauch Chunck, she was reared in the beautiful city of Bethlehem, where the family removed in her early childhood. She first visited Texas in the spring of 1877, as Miss Emma Lane Conner, stopping at Jacksboro, where her sister, Mrs. H.H. McConnell, then resided, in the olden days of frontier life and civilization, when this little village had but recently been abandoned as a United States Army Post. Here she formed the acquaintance with her future husband, which was consummated in their marriage, some two years later, at the family home in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on 27 February 1879. Her married life, for a period of nearly 40 years was spent among the people of Jacksboro; a woman of rare attainments, queenly grace, and cultured manner, kind, gentle and generous in all the relations of life, considerate and always extremely thoughtful of the welfare and happiness of others, she attracted admiration so that “none knew her but to love her.” A member of the Presbyterian Church in Jacksboro, she was for many years one of its active and prominent workers. For many years, since the death of their mother, she and her sister Miss Alice Connor, had been constant and inseparable companions, and the constant thoughtful attention which characterized her life in other spheres was beautifully illustrated in the devotion to her only surviving sister, who thus shared in her home life, and who is now left to share with the bereaved husband, in mourning her loss. Miss Alice Connor is the last surviving member of her family, misses her most of all, and find the coming days the loneliest.