A Time Line for Emma Vermell Harrell Drake (1867-1935)

 Hello, genealogy friends.  I have been away for quite awhile.  It's been a tough year.  Right now, I am recovering from COVID.  I have been sick for 3 weeks and just realized yesterday that I am finally getting better!  So I have been able to spend some time on a favorite activity that had fallen by the wayside - genealogy!  I have been following Ancestry.com hints like crazy for a couple of days, while trying to catch up on my emails and messages.  I also peeked in at what Family Search sends me about my family tree, and I love their Time Lines!  I like being able to see the main events in an ancestor's life all in a line.  It makes it seem more real somehow.  

Now my last post from April was about my great-grandmother, Emma Vermell Harrell Drake (1867-1935).  I basically told what I know about her in a running commentary or story.  However, now Family Search has sent me a time line for her life, and I think seeing it in this format helps my story - makes it easier to take in.  So I'm going to share it here (with many corrections and tweaks!).  

Our connection:

Liz (that's me!)

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Gilbert Earl Tapley, 1928-2008 (my father)

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Nealie Vermell Drake Tapley, 1895-1970 (my grandmother)

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Emma Vermell Harrell Drake, 1867-1935 (my great-grandmother)

Time Line for the life of Emma Vermell Harrell Drake: 

1867 Age 0	Birth	September 4 Emanuel County, Georgia, USA
1875 Age 8	Death of a Parent	September 11 Her mother, Catharine M Odom Harrell (1841-1875) passed away at age 34, leaving 4 children, ages 15, 8, 5, and 3.
1878 Age 10	Remarriage of a Parent	January 1 Her father, William Robert Harrell (1838-1908) remarried in Emanuel County to Winford Barwick (1853-1939).  They went on to have 2 children (sons) together.
1883 Age 15	Marriage	July 30 Emma married William John Drake (1857-1927).  He was 25 years old with a 2-year-old daughter.
1884 Age 17	Birth of 1st Child	A girl, Hattie Lay Drake, was born September 10.
1886 Age 18	Birth of Child	Another girl, Kenneth Catherine Drake, was born April 3.
1890 Age 22	Historical Event	Woman’s Suffrage.  An organization formed in favor of women’s suffrages. By combining two organizations, membership eventually increased to 2 million people.  This voluntary organization held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.
1892 Age 24	Birth of Child	A boy!  William Lovick Drake was born October 2nd.
1893 Age 25	Historical Event	The Last Public Hanging in Georgia. The last public hanging in Georgia was on September 28, 1893. The General Assembly prohibited public executions in December 1893. Prior to this law, Georgians commonly traveled to witness scheduled public executions.
1895 Age 27	Birth of Child	Nealie Vermell Drake was born on January 29.
1897 Age 29	Birth of Child	William Robert Drake was born on January 22.
1900 Age 32	Historical Event	Trading Wildlife.  This law prohibits trade in wildlife, fish, and plants that have been taken, possessed, transported, or sold illegally.
1900 Age 32	Birth of Child	James Weldon Drake was born February 17.
1903 Age 35	Birth of Child	Keland Lawton Drake was born July 12.
1906 Age 38	Birth of Child	On March 20, Nancy Mary Ann Drake was born.
1906 Age 39	Historical Event	The Atlanta Race Riot.  The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 occurred on the evening of September 22-24. A newspaper reported the rapes of four white women by African American men. Fueled by preexisting racial tensions, these reports enraged white men who then arranged gangs to attack African American men. Over the next several days, several thousand white men joined in and in the end, 26 people were killed and many were injured.
1908 Age 40	Birth of last child	On March 11, Martha Lou Drake was born.
1908 Age 40	Death of a Parent	Emma’s father, William Robert Harrell, passed away on April 10 in Emanuel County, Georgia.
1910 Age 42	Historical Event	The Mann Act.  This Act makes engaging in transport of any woman for any immoral purpose, prostitution, illegal.  Its primary intent was to address prostitution, immorality, and human trafficking, particularly where trafficking was for the purposes of prostitution.
1910 Age 42	Residence	Emanuel County, Georgia, USA
1912 Age 44	Death of a Child	Emma’s oldest child, Hattie Lay Drake, died of typhoid fever on July 25.
1912 Age 45	Death of a Child	Emma’s first born son, William Lovick Drake, died on December 17 at age 20 of typhoid fever.
1920 Age 52	Residence	Emanuel County, Georgia, USA
1922 Age 54	Historical Event	Women Granted the Right to Vote. The 19th Amendment, which allowed women the right to vote, was passed and became federal law on August 26, 1920. Georgia law prevented women from voting until 1922. The amendment wasn’t officially ratified until 1970.
1927 Age 59	Death of a Child	William Robert Drake was murdered on June 19, 1927.
1927 Age 59	Death of Spouse	William John Drake, Emma’s husband, was accidentally shot and killed by their son, James Weldon Drake, on August 9.
1932 Age 65	Death of a Child	Nancy Mary Ann Drake passed away on December 10 in Montgomery, Alabama.  She was 25 years old.
1935 Age 67	Historical Event	The Social Security Act created a basic right to a pension in old age and insurance against unemployment.
1935 Age 68	Death	Emma passed away on October 19 in Sandersville, Washington County, Georgia, USA. She was buried at Poplar Springs Methodist Church in Adrian, Johnson County, Georgia, USA like most of the Drakes.

 Unfortunately, I do not have any images of my 2nd great-grandmother.  I will share a picture of her headstone, which I believe says all it needs about her faith and where she got her strength.