Ima B Emry

Half sister to William Rector Collins. Ima and Milton Emry left Drumright OK with other families who worked in the oil fields to homestead in Thermopolis, Hot Springs County Wyoming somewhere around 1916 or 1917. They died with in one day of each other during the flu epidemic in early 1918. Merrel, age 4, and Bonnie, age 2, at the time of their parents death. An uncle, John Hopkins, came after the children. They then lived on an oil lease east of Sapulpa, OK with their grandparents, Wiley and Mary Ann Emry. Grandpa Charley Collins came 3 or 4 times to see them in the 1920's. Their aunt, Inez, came from Drumright OK a few times. She married Sisco Coleman. They had one son Paul. About the last time Aunt Inez came to visit the children was in 1928. Milton Owen Emry had a sister, Juel or Jewel Rush, no other information is known about her.