Name: Brown, Emma Jane Sperbeck(Sholes)
Burial Date: 1937, 08/29
Age at Death: 84
Plot Location: 512 C/D
Notes: wife of Thomas Hayes Brown

Emma J Sholes was born on April 7, 1853, in Phelps, New York. She had two sons and one daughter with Thomas Hayes Brown Jr. between 1871 and 1879. She died on August 25, 1937, in Sterling, Kansas, at the age of 84.

At a young age, Emma was a circus rider and later became a spiritualist.  Her husband Thomas Brown came to Kansas for health reasons, and established a bank at Florence. He then came to Sterling where he started the Salt Company, and established the Citizens State Bank.

Birth:	Apr. 7, 1853 Phelps Ontario County New York, USA
Death:	Aug. 25, 1937
Family links: Parents: Benjamin Sholes (1815 – 1886) Mary Jane Frederick Sholes (1818 – 1892) Spouse: Thomas Hayes Brown (1845 – 1916)* Siblings: Susanna Sholes Sloman (1837 – 1911)* Julia A Sholes Baker (1838 – 1913)* Frances Sholes Gaslin (1840 – 1907)* David L Sholes (1843 – 1887)* William Sholes (1843 – 1884)* Elizabeth Alice Sholes Burchim (1847 – 1913)* Benjamin Sholes (1851 – 1904)* Emma Sholes Brown (1853 – 1937) Orville T. Sholes (1857 – 1945)* *Calculated relationship
Burial: 512 C/D Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA
Created by: Daryl VerStreate Record added: Aug 29, 2007 Find A Grave Memorial# 21234961