Emma Page Larimore (September 14, 1855 – April 23, 1943) was an educator, writer, and editor for ''
The Gospel Advocate''. She was the second wife of
Theophilus Brown Larimore (1843–1929).
Biography
Emma Page was born in 1855 on a plantation near
Donelson, Tennessee.
She attended the Hope Institute run by Charlotte and Tolbert Fanning. She later studied at the Tennessee Normal School and
Burritt College
Burritt College (1848 - 1939) was a college in Spencer, Tennessee, United States. Established in 1848, it was one of the first coeducational institutions in the South, and one of the first state-chartered schools in southern Middle Tennessee. Ope ...
. Page began teaching at the Fanning Orphan School in 1884 when it was opened by
Charlotte Fanning.
Page was an editor for ''The
Gospel Advocate'' and authored the "Children's Corner" column. This column was aimed at young children, offering wisdom and encouragement on topics such as the death of siblings and parents.
Page encouraged children to send her letters and included them in her column along with her sympathetic replies.
Emma Page is best known for recording, editing and publishing the sermons of T. B. Larimore. She did most of the editing of volume one when the original editor,
Fletcher Douglas Srygley (1856–1900), fell ill. She alone completed volumes two and three.
Between 1901 and 1903, Page had recorded many of Larimore's sermons for her own pleasure. The sales volume of the first book of sermons led to demand for more and the publisher of ''The Gospel Advocate'' engaged Page, who had the trust of Larimore, to transcribe, select, and arrange the contents of the second book published in 1904 and the third book published in 1910.
T. B. Larimore's first wife died in 1907 and he married Emma Page on January 1, 1911. The coupled traveled across North America for the next year, during which time they did
evangelistic work. Emma Larimore wrote a book about these travels.
T.B. Larimore's children were all married and so he and his wife were free to travel and pursue missionary work.
During 1912–1913, the Larimores moved to
Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville is the county seat of Alachua County, Florida, Alachua County, Florida, and the largest city in North Central Florida, with a population of 141,085 in 2020. It is the principal city of the Gainesville metropolitan area, Florida, Gaine ...
, and worked at promoting the establishment of the Dixieland College.
In 1920, T.B. Larimore became the pastor of the Christian Church in
San Francisco,
California. The Larimores settled into a new home in
Berkeley, California.
Emma's husband died in 1931, after which she completed the book, ''Life, Letters and Sermons of T.B. Larimore.''
Emma Page Larimore died in
Santa Ana, California
Santa Ana () is the second most populous city and the county seat of Orange County, California. Located in the Greater Los Angeles region of Southern California, the city's population was 310,227 at the 2020 census, making Santa Ana the List of ...
in 1943.
Works
* Larimore, Emma Page (1907).
The life work of Mrs. Charlotte Fanning'. Nashville, Tenn: McQuiddy printing Company.
* Larimore, Emma Page (1912). ''Our corner book: from Maine to Mexico, from Canada to Cuba''. Nashville: Pub. House of the M.E. Church, South
WorldCat link* Larimore, T. B., and Emma Page Larimore (1910). ''Letters and sermons of T.B. Larimore''. Nashville, Tenn: McQuiddy Print. C
WorldCat link* Larimore, T. B., and Emma Page Larimore (1931). ''Life, letters and sermons of T.B. Larimore''. Nashville, Tenn: Gospel Advocate Co
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References
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1855 births
1943 deaths
20th-century American non-fiction writers
American women writers
American educators
People from Donelson, Tennessee