Emma (Hulett) Smith (1873 - aft. 1936)

Born 1873 in Hazen, Prairie, Arkansas, United States

Wife of Lawson T Thomas — married 18 May 1891 in Prairie, Arkansas, United States

Died after 1936 after age 63 in Hazen, Prairie, Arkansas, United States

Biography

Emma (Hulett) Smith is a part of US Black heritage.

Emma Hulett Smith was interviewed in Hazen, Arkansas about 1938 about her life and her time as an enslaved person.

"I was the first colored baby born here or very near here. There was only three houses in this town (Hazen). My folks belonged to Dr. Hazen. He brought families from Tennessee. When the war broke out he took em to Texas. Then he brought em back here. When they was freed I heard my mother say they worked on for him and his boys (Alex and Jim Hazen) and they paid them."

"My mother (Mandy Hulett) got a Union pension till she died. She cooked at the first hotel in Hazen for John Lane. She washed and ironed till she died. We girls helped and we wash and iron all we can get now. None of us not on relief (Fannie nor Emma)."

Interview: Emma Hulett Smith was interviewed in Hazen, Arkansas by Miss Irene Robertson as part of the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The results are made available by the Library of Congress. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ [1] Library of Congress - WPA - Slave Narrative - Emma Hulett Smith - Vol. 2, Arkansas, part 6; pages 185-186 images 190-191 of 376.

• https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/hazen-prairie-county-966/

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNWK-VV8 : 13 January 2022), Emma Hewlet in household of Jessie Hewlet, White River Township, Prairie, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .

• "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NMLR-9X6 : 9 March 2021), Emma Hulett in entry for L T Thomas, 10 May 1891; citing Marriage, Prairie, Arkansas, United States, county offices, Arkansas; FHL microfilm 1,015,089.

• "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3X9-67Y : 11 March 2022), Emma D Thomas in entry for La*s? Thomas, 1900.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKVG-C6T : accessed 27 July 2022), Emma Smith in household of Mandy Hulett, Hazen, Prairie, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 108, sheet 1A, family 3, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 61; FHL microfilm 1,374,074.

• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDF4-6P1 : 31 January 2021), Emma Smith in entry for Frank Smith, 1920.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:2:1YWD-XYG : accessed 27 July 2022), Household of Emma Smith, Hazen, Prairie, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 6, sheet 7B, line 82, family 179, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 90; FHL microfilm 2,339,825.

Research Notes

William Cogswell Hazen William Cogswell Hazen (1806-1872)came to the area from Covington, Tennessee, with his family and twenty-one slaves in 1854. (From the website included above - Encyclopedia of Arkansas dot net)