Emma Rebecca Rogers was born April 29, 1885 in what is now Grady County, Ga. Her parents were James Thomas Rogers and Susan Rebecca Rhodes Rogers. She was next to the youngest of seven children. Her father died when she was about four years old; and her mother's health being very poor, she early learned to work. After her father's death, the family continued to live on their farm, near Pine Park, Ga. When Emma was thirteen years old, they moved to a farm near Meigs, Ga. She attended the rural school at Pine Park, then Center Hill School near Meigs. After finishing at Center Hill, she attended Norman Institute at Norman Park, Ga. She taught in the rural schools of Thomas and Grady counties for six years before she married. On January 26, 1908, she married Daniel Patterson Ward, and again her home was near Pine Park, Ga. She was the mother of three sons, Preston Rogers, Daniel Patterson, Jr., and Clifton Albert. She was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church and in a quiet unassuming way did much real mission work. She was always ready to help those in need. As a mother, Emma Rogers Ward was patient, loving and kind. Her sympathetic, understanding heart together with good discipline made her a very nearly perfect mother. Her friends found in her a source of inspiration and felt ever her loyalty to them. Her neighbors admired and respected her for her kind deeds in the community. One the morning of August 2nd, the friends and loved ones of Mrs. D. P. Ward were made very sad when the news came of her death. She had been in declining health for some time, and just at dawn on that day, she quietly laid aside the cares of earth and her spirit gently took its flight to the bright world. Her marriage had been blessed with a kind loving husband and three dear little boys, who will miss her more each day as time passes on. Her short bright life was an inspiration to those with whom she was associated. She was a consecrated Christian member of the Pine Park Baptist Church in which she will be greatly missed. Endearing herself to everyone by her kindly words
and thoughtfulness of others, makes it hard to say, "gone away from us." In the long hours of her great suffering no words of complaint ever entered. Such patience was never shown by human — at all times content and calm. Now, dear husband and children, brothers and sisters and lonely mother, sorrow not too much for the dear one. She has only been removed from her earthly home to that mansion prepared for her by her loving Savior. God has promised us a great reunion bye and bye when we shall see our loved ones again. Let us rest upon the never failing promise of our God.

The Cairo Messenger, Friday, September 13, 1918
In Loving Memory of Mrs. D. P. Ward