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                   When her father died, Emma was Mrs. McBride, and a notation on his estate papers says she was living in Chicago.  When her mother died, a news article also implied she lived in Chicago.
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June 7, 1997.  Edna Pritchard states she remembers this Aunt, who was once called the Cattle Queen of Colorado.  Edna says she can remember the house Emma lived in, it was a square house, with dirt yard.  She does not remember going through the mountains to get to this house.
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Edna told me that Emma's husband, Castile, (sp)  took a herd to market, the herd comprised of his cattle, and Grandpa Emmett Cramer's cattle.  He was never heard of again, they did not know if rustlers stole the herd and killed him, or if he took off with the herd.  I remember my mother (Norma Cramer Howatt)  telling me she rode in a wagon, to Dodge City with this Aunt, looking for the husband, the herd, or to find out what happened.  They did not find him, and did not find out what happened.
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On 7-26-1997 Aunt Edna told Carol and Susan that Aunt Emma was a "grumpy old thing."
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June 14, 1998:  We had the Cramer family reunion, and Sandie Kitchen brought a copy of a Family Record of Births, giving birthdates for all the children, John K, and Laura's children.  I believe there is an error in the dates, because if Emma was born Oct 1863, there was not time for my grandfather to be born in 1864, and we have records that say that is when he was born.  This record says he was born in 1865, so I am making this note, for other's who research this.   Karon Mazie.
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