On 21 May 1854 she and Mary Isabel and John S. Wright were confirmed as members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Augusta, Georgia, by the Right Reverend Bishop Elliott. ®118 ®129 On the 1860 census of Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia she is 24, not 30 years old, and is living with her sister Mary Isabel, Mary's husband John S. Wright and her widowed mother, Jane M. Eve. During the Civil War (1861-5) John Wright lived in Marietta, "a pleasant and growing village containing about 1500 inhabitants in 1853” probably on a plantation at the foot of Little Kennesaw Mountain (about 20 miles from Atlanta). They were probably displaced during General Sherman’s march to the sea in December 1864. In a 21 March 1863 letter from J. S. Wright to his daughter Sarah Laura , he indicates Aunt Emma lived in the same location as his family. On 15 1870 she is a 39 year old schoolteacher still living in Marietta, with the family of James and Mary Russell. In 1872 John S. Wright is a bookkeeper with Claghorn, Herring & Co. and from 1872-1879 lives at 89 Reynolds, Augusta, Georgia. From 1880-2 he resides at 1024 Reynolds Street, Augusta, Georgia. From 1879-82 Wright & Crane (J. S. Wright, G. W. Crane and W. F. Herring), cotton factors, office at 7 Warren Block, 192 8th, Augusta. Emma is single and aged 49 at the 1 Jun 1880 census when she lived with her sister Mary Isabel and brother-in-law John Stephen Wright and their family at 1024 Reynolds Street, Augusta, Georgia. She moved to Texas where she became a teacher. The 1889/90 Austin, Texas, City Directory lists her as an Art teacher, boarding with Sidon Harris. In the 1900 census she was born in about 1831 and lives at the home of Fred Sevin in the 5 Justice Precinct, Travis County, Texas. She learned to incorporate bird feathers into her embroidery after examining Mayan feather cloaks which family members brought back from voyages to British Honduras. She also delivered the opinion, when provoked, that pesky boys should be kept in a barrel and fed through the bunghole until they were eighteen. She never married.

Was she born in Jefferson, Jackson County, Georgia, USA? Where and when did she die? Texas?