Emma Susan Gilmore

Brief Life History of Emma Susan

When Emma Susan Gilmore was born on 29 September 1885, in Neshoba, Mississippi, United States, her father, William Rufus Gilmore, was 32 and her mother, Laura A Barber, was 30. She married John Luther Comans on 15 December 1901, in Neshoba, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Beat 3, Newton, Mississippi, United States in 1930 and Beat 5, Scott, Mississippi, United States in 1940. She died on 11 November 1943, in Neshoba, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in High Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Dixon, Neshoba, Mississippi, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Luther Comans
1880–1976
Emma Susan Gilmore
1885–1943
Marriage: 15 December 1901
Dora Exie Mae Comans
1905–2005
Mary Anner Comans
1908–2001
Ruby Leslie Comans
1912–2005
J B Comans
1914–1999
Susan Ada Comans
1916–1994
Eunice Kate Emma Comans
1919–2020
Luther J. Comans
1922–2008
Ripley Lane Comans
1924–2005
Francis Laura Comans
1927–2017
Robert Lee Comans
1930–2017

Sources (18)

  • Emer Gillmoon in household of Rufus Gillmoon, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Emma Susan Gilmore - Published information: Family genealogies: birth-name: Emma Susan Gilmore
  • Emma Gilmore Comans, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1886 · Giving Working Men a Union

The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.

1901 · Assassination of Mckinley

President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.

Name Meaning

Scottish and Irish (Ulster and Galway): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Mhoire (Scots), Mac Giolla Mhuire (Irish), patronymics from personal names meaning ‘servant (i.e. devotee) of (the Virgin) Mary’.

Irish: in Sligo, shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Mhir ‘son of the spirited lad’.

English: habitational name from Gillamoor in Rydale (North Yorkshire), from Old English Gedling (‘place called after Gētla’, from the Old English personal name Gētla + the connective particle -ing) + mōr ‘moor’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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