Person:Emma Wilkinson (6)

1870 May 31, Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co., CA. John Wilkinson wrote his brother-in-law James Love in Illinois: "we came to this co[a]st in 1865 with all of our family except Even our oldest boy / he was hear / had him here too years and he went back the same fall that we came out / he bought aplace clost to the old place that we left and the balans are here except emley / She died the next fall" Correspondence from the family letters and papers of Jane Love and her cousin, Lillice Jones Harper, courtesy John, Danny, and Dave Harper in 2001 and 2004, transcribed by Brenda Boyer

Emma d. from tuberculosis; she is buried in Rural Cemetery, Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co., CA.