Beulah Embree Sanford
Tennessee’s first daughter, Beulah, was the primary audience for her diary. Born May 4, 1865, Beulah is the reason her mother began the diary, writing because she thought it might be interesting for her daughter to read in future years. Tennessee held great hopes and deep concerns for her daughter, but always worked to ensure her daughter would be independent, personally as well as economically. Tennessee remained concerned about her daughter’s “pleasant” nature but her efforts to ensure her daughter’s education and financial independence are also constant themes in the diary.
Beulah Embree attended Baylor College for Women in Independence, Texas and completed her education at the Columbia Atheneum in Tennessee. Her talents in music and art provided her the career with which her mother hoped she would be economically independent. Beulah married John A. Sanford in 1887 and had five children, Erma (1888), John (1890), Russell (1893), Leland (1897)–all born in Belton– and Beulah “Little Bea” (1906), born in Mount Park, Oklahoma.
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- John, Beulah, Little Bea and Leland
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- Erma and Leland Sanford
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- Beulah and Little Beulah
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- John, Beulah and Russell Sanford
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- Russell Sanford
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- Erma, Little Bea, Beulah
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- Beulah and John Sanford
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- Beulah, Little Bea and Leland Sanford
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- Beulah and Erma Sanford
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- Beulah Embree Sanford
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- Beulah Embree Sanford
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- Erma Leggett, Little Bea, and Beulah E. Sanford
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- John A. Sanford
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- Erma Sanford Leggett's husband and son
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- Sanford Family
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- Beulah Embree Sanford
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- Beulah Embree
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- Beulah Embree
2009 June 18th
-This Embree Diaries is very interesting reading. I don’t know if
I’am in your same family line but your never know. I have been
gathering info in regards to my family history - and found that
alot is already out there [Embree Footprints - #1 by R. Ambler].
-My family came from West Farms, Westchester N.Y.-left for Nova
Scotia about 1785 and we have been here ever since.
Regard: Paul Embree
Paul, Amy said she gave you my name and email.We can write through here if you like so other might add something to what we say. Not sure on the relation. You posted under Beulah. Did that name ring a bell? She was my grandfather Leland Sanford’s mother.
Debbie
My grandmother was Beulah Sanford Lary. She is known as Little Bea in the pictures above, I believe. I have just recently started to go through our family notes and pictures to understand my father’s mother’s family history. This looks like an amazing piece of research and work that has gone into this book.