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 1867 - 1950 (> 84 years)
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| Name |
Emma Jane Gibbs |
| Birth |
12 Jun 1867 |
Warren County, Tennessee  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Religion |
Church of Christ [2] |
| Death |
After 1950 |
McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee [3] |
| Person ID |
I18714 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
28 Dec 2014 |
| Father |
Samuel J. Gibbs, b. 14 Mar 1838, Warren County, Tennessee d. 11 Nov 1892, Warren County, Tennessee (Age 54 years) |
| Mother |
Nancy Clementine "Clementine" Crouch, b. 9 Apr 1840, Tennessee d. 19 Dec 1883, Warren County, Tennessee (Age 43 years) |
| Marriage |
29 Jan 1859 |
Warren County, Tennessee [4] |
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| Family ID |
F7215 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Francis Marion Stepp, b. 19 Nov 1867, Warren County, Tennessee d. 0___ 1950, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee (Age 82 years) |
| Marriage |
17 Mar 1888 |
Beech Grove, Coffee County, Tennessee [3] |
| Children |
| | 1. Howry Orville "Harry" Stepp, b. 21 Dec 1889, Warren County, Tennessee d. 8 Sep 1973 (Age 83 years) |
| | 2. James Erman Stepp, b. 25 Jan 1891, Warren County, Tennessee d. 28 Mar 1966, (Warren County, Tennessee) (Age 75 years) |
| | 3. Francis Earl Stepp, b. 17 Feb 1905, Warren County, Tennessee d. 23 Jan 1964, (Davidson County, Tennessee) (Age 58 years) |
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| Family ID |
F6541 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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| Notes |
- STEPP, Emma Jane Gibbs (1867-1952)
Illness Fatal To Mrs. Emma Stepp; Rites Held Sunday
Mrs. Emma Jane Stepp, widow of Francis M. Stepp, a McMinnville hotel operator and salesman for a number of years, died at her home in West Riverside Saturday morning at 8:45 o'clock. Mrs. Stepp had been in ill health for several months. She was 84.
Funeral rites were conducted Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock at Liberty Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Bailey Brooks, J. R. Bailey and John W. High officiated and burial was beside her husband in Liberty cemetery.
Born in Warren county June 12, 1867, Mrs. Stepp was a daughter of Samuel Gibbs and Nancy Clementine Crouch Gibbs and she was married to Mr. Stepp March 17, 1888.
For several years the couple resided at Tracy City where Mr. Stepp was operator of a hotel and engaged in the coal mining business. They returned to McMinnville in 1913 and had resided here since. The couple observed their Golden wedding anniversary March 17, 1938.
Mr. Stepp died December 17, 1950. Mrs. Stepp was prominent in the community life of McMinnville and the county for a number of the Church of Christ for over half a century, attending regularly the West Riverside congregation until prevented by ill health.
She is survived by three sons, J. E. Stepp, McMinnville groceryman; F.E. Stepp, Nashville and Harry O. Stepp, Sr. Shreveport, La.; one sister, Mrs. William Wilder, Ballinger, Texas, six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were under the direction of High Funeral Home.
Southern Standard, McMinnville, TN. 29 May 1952, p. 14.
[Contributor: Maxine Reggio, 2001] [2]
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| Sources |
- [S17] 1870 Warren Co.,TN Census, transcribed from Microfilm by, p. 158 (Reliability: 3).
- [S4360] Southern Standard, McMinnville, TN. 29 May 1952, p. 14.
- [S2815] Francis Marion Stepp, obituary, "Southern Standard", date unknown,.
- [S1655] "Warren County,Tennessee Marriage Records:1852-1900", compiled & printed by Fred Clark,RR 1 Box 9-B, Ridge Road, Quebeck, p. 65 (Reliability: 3).
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