The Embree Diaries

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Top Row, Left to Right: Beulah Embree Sanford, Harvey Embree, Russell Embree
2nd Row, seated, Left to Right:
John Brown Sanford (child) John A. Sanford, Tennessee Embree, Gillian Embree, John W. Embree, John Embree, Jr (standing)
Erma Sanford seated on the floor

I will be giving a brief talk and signing books at the Bell County Museum in Belton, Texas this spring. This event is currently scheduled for Saturday March 20th, 2010, 2-4pm.

This image from the cover of Tandem Lives, forthcoming in April 2009.  The book is now advertised in the Spring/Summer Catalogue from the University of Tennessee Press– on page 17/18!

Tennessee Keys Embree, the second wife of Dr. John W. Embree, born Carroll County, Arkansas, 1840
A copy of this original photograph is in the Embree collection at the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. The original surfaced in the collected of Betty Sanford Lockhart.

1914, Belton, Texas.

Beulah Embree, aged 12, 1877

Henrietta Baker Embree, first wife of Dr. John W. Embree, born Cumberland County, Kentucky.