From Carrollton's COLORED SECTION

MRS EMMA JOHNSON, ONE OF FOUNDERS OF COLORED BAPTIST CHURCH HERE DIES AT HOME

Mrs. Emma Johnson, colored, aged about 65, died at her home in Farmers Branch last week and was buried on Friday, with the funeral held here in the colored Baptist church on the old Denton Highway.
She was one of the charter members of the church-in fact colored folks say "she founded it," she had always been so devoted to her work and associations there.
About two hundred people came to her funeral, some straight from digging her grave, for her friends contributed this services.
Rev. L. B. Bookman preached and Crawford Funeral Home for colored of Dallas, had charge of arrangements.
Beside her husband, she is survived by a brother, William Hood of Rock Island, Ill., and a sister, Hattie Swope of Oklahoma City. Both were at the funeral.
The deceased came here from Oklahoma n 1914.
She was buried in the family cemetery on her home place a mile west of Farmers Branch. Her husband if Charlie Johnson.
Pallbearers were Calvin Jones, Wash Rainwater, Sshmael Johnson, Ed Allen, and Hatton Hall.
She died of influenza.

The Carrollton Chronicle - February 11, 1944
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

Carrollton Community Cemetery, Carrollton, Dallas Co., Texas