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Emma Jewell and Children

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Title

Emma Jewell and Children

Subject

Jewell, Emma Alice (Brinker) (1893-1943)
Jewell, William Henry (ca 1919 - )
Jewell, Catherine L. (ca 1922 - )

Description

The name, "Mrs. Robt Jewell" is written on the glass plate of this image of a woman with her two children.
After further research, we determined this is a photograph of Robert H. Jewell’s wife, Emma Alice (Brinker) Jewell, with her two oldest children: William H. and Catherine L. Jewell. Another son, George S., was born after this photograph was taken.

Emma A. Brinker was the daughter of Henry and Lizzie (Craig) Brinker. She married Robert H. Jewell (1898-1943) in May 1918, in Strasburg. He was the son of Solomon Robert (1864-1938) and Sarah Catherine (Middleton) (1864-1940) Jewell, of Fishers Hill, near Strasburg. The well-known Reverend, J.D. Hamaker, officiated. Her husband’s occupation was “Miller”. Later that year, Robert registered for the WWI draft. The couple lived on Fishers Hill, and Robert worked for Levi Keller there.

Over the next decades, the family rented farms around the area and Robert worked as a farmhand. In 1920, they were on Back Road, in 1930 they lived near Posey Hollow Road and Valley Pike in the Davis District, and by 1940, they lived in Toms Brook.

On October 23, 1943, Emma’s husband was struck and killed by an automobile as he walked along US Route 11 near Fisher’s Hill in the early evening. Emma, herself, died not quite two weeks later. Her death certificate noted the cause of death as “Acute dilation of the heart”.

Creator

Morrison Studio

Source

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Publisher

Shenandoah County Library

Date

Labelled "Nov 1928" on box of plates.

Contributor

Biographical information was compiled from public records.

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Identifier

006461

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Glass Negative

Citation

Morrison Studio, “Emma Jewell and Children,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed March 28, 2024, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/39644.

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