Emma May Beeker ^{3 4 5}

   FamilySearch ID: LLQ9-BK4.

  Death Notes:

Event Description: Death certificate has 19 Jan 1925 death, not 16 Jan 1925 on tombstone.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. She has conflicting birth information of Her NC Death Certificate has 10 Apr 1883 has birth date, while her tombstone is engraved 26 Apr 1885, 10 Apr 1883 and , Rowan, NC. ⁴

2. Cause of Death: myocarditis, 19 Jan 1925, Greensboro, Guilford, NC. ⁴

3. Residence: 26 Cypress Ave., Proximity, NC on 19 Jan 1925 in Proximity, Guilford, NC. ⁴

4. Obituary: Greensboro Record: obituary of Mrs. Emma May Hardy on 20 Jan 1925 in Greensboro, Guilford, NC. ⁶ Mrs. Hardy's Funeral Be Held Wednesday, 3 P. M.
Funeral services for Mrs. Emma May Hardy, 41, who died in a local hospital Monday, will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Eller Memorial church by the Rev. S. A. Rhyne. Interment will follow in Greene Hill cemetery. Mrs. Hardy had been in bad heaith for a year and her condition had been critical since Christmas. Besides her husband, H. P. Hardy of Proximity, she is survived by four brothers, Jeff and Carl Beeker, Greensboro; Ross Beeker, Welcome; Oscar Beeker, Albemarle; and three sisters: Mrs. G. P. Smith, Greensboro; Mrs. Bessie Campbell, Danville, Va.: Mrs. May Parrish, Greensboro.
==Greensboro Record, January 20, 1925==.

Emma married Oscar Norman Spurgeon, son of George Franklin Spurgeon and Sarah E. Cecil, on 9 Jul 1899 in , Rowan, NC.¹ The marriage ended in divorce. (Oscar Norman Spurgeon was born on 17 Jan 1879 in Lexington, Davidson, NC,^{7 8} died on 3 Jul 1953 in Raleigh, Wake, NC ^{7 8} and was buried in Raleigh: Montlawn Memorial Park, Wake, NC ⁸.)

Emma next married Hezekiah "Hezzie" Pigg Hardy on 21 Apr 1907 in , Guilford, NC.² (Hezekiah "Hezzie" Pigg Hardy was born on 14 Jun 1883 in Danville, Danville, VA,⁹ died on 7 Nov 1972 in Reidsville, Rockingham, NC ⁹ and was buried in Greensboro: Green Hill Cemetery, Guilford, NC ⁹.)