Emma Whitney Sears

1 January 1878–25 September 1947

Born 1 June 1878 at Salt Lake City.[1] Daughter of Septimus Wagstaff Sears and Isabel Modalena Whitney.[2] Granddaughter of EBW.[3] Married John Gillette Roberts, 4 Aug. 1899, in Salt Lake City; two children.[4] Lived in Detroit, 1899–1908.[5] Visited by EBW when she was in Chicago, 1903.[6] Husband earned a law degree from John Marshall Law School, Purdue University, 1908.[7] Lived in Dobbs Ferry, Westchester Co., New York, 1911–1947.[8] Traveled to Europe with her daughter Ruth, 1923.[9] Died 25 Sept. 1947 in White Plains, Westchester Co.[10]

 

[1] EBW, Diary, 1 June 1891. Carol Cornwall Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017), 504. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 12 Dec. 2018), Emma Whitney Sears (KLBM-W27).

[2] Carol Cornwall Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017), 504.

[3] Carol Cornwall Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017), 503–505. 

[4] Salt Lake Co., UT, County Clerk, Marriage Records, 1887–1965, Marriage Licenses, vol. I, p. 436, no. 8470, John Gillette Roberts and Emelie Whitney Sears, 4 Aug. 1899, microfilm 429057, DGS 4624217, image 494/797, FHL. “Marriage of Miss E. W. Sears,” Woman’s Exponent, 15 Aug. 1899, 43. 1910 U.S. Census, Detroit, Wayne Co., MI, ED 213, p. 9. EBW, Diary, 19 July 1901. 1920 U.S. Census, Dobbs Ferry, Westchester Co., NY, ED 38, p. 24A, Emily Roberts.

[5] 1900 U.S. Census, Detroit, Wayne Co., MI, ED 18, p. 10A, Emilie D. W. Roberts.

[6] EBW, Diary, 31 Mar. 1903.

[7] Purdue University, “Register of Officers and Alumni,” 1916, p. 89 (https://earchives.lib.purdue.edu/digital/collection/ua180/id/2373, accessed 8 Aug. 2020).

[8] 1920 U.S. Census, Dobbs Ferry, Westchester Co., NY, ED 11, p. 23, Emily Roberts. 1930 U.S. Census, Dobbs Ferry, Westchester Co., NY, ED 393, Sheet 4A, Emilie Roberts. 1940 U.S. Census, Greenburgh, Westchester Co., NY, ED 60-50, p. 14B, Emilie Roberts.

[9] U.S. Passport Applications, 1795–1925, Passport Applications, 1923, Roll 2353, Certificates 333850–334349, 18 Aug. 1923–21 Aug. 1923, Emilie Roberts.

[10] NY State Death Index, 1880–1956, Death Index, 1947, p. 196, Emilie D. Roberts, 25 Sept. 1947, DGS 104132640, image 1181/1624, FHL.