Western Figure. Born Julia Johnson in Missouri, she was the boyhood sweetheart of outlaw Emmett Dalton and later his wife. Even though she was married to a saloon keeper named Robert Lewis until his death, she stood by Emmett during his renegade years and waited 14 years for him while he served time for his crimes in prison. After Emmett was pardoned by Governor of Kansas E. W. Hoch in 1907, he married Julia and they settled in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Emmett was employed as a special police officer. Later they moved to California and worked together as a respectable building contractors, until Emmett's death in Hollywood, California, in 1937. Julia remarried and died six years later at the age of 73 in Fresno, California.
Western Figure. Born Julia Johnson in Missouri, she was the boyhood sweetheart of outlaw Emmett Dalton and later his wife. Even though she was married to a saloon keeper named Robert Lewis until his death, she stood by Emmett during his renegade years and waited 14 years for him while he served time for his crimes in prison. After Emmett was pardoned by Governor of Kansas E. W. Hoch in 1907, he married Julia and they settled in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Emmett was employed as a special police officer. Later they moved to California and worked together as a respectable building contractors, until Emmett's death in Hollywood, California, in 1937. Julia remarried and died six years later at the age of 73 in Fresno, California.
Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith
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