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I felt it was time for you all to meet some of Emily's family
and get to know us and her relationship with each of us. We'll start out with her Grandparents and work our way down.Emily
told one of the psychic's to tell me that she loved the site I had made for her and had done a wonderful job adding all the
details and information that I have, but........she said it was too sad and boring and needed a little fun to it, so that
is why I have picked this time to introduce her family to all of you. Her family meant everything to her. I don't know her
father's side of the family or I would let you meet them also, but you will meet ours and we are a strange variety.
 Ralph & Peggy Smith are Emily's grandparents. They moved
to a little place in the country called Hopewell, MO, which isn't even on the map, but they all loved it.They ended up
living there for 50 years. Before this they had lived in St. Louis, MO, so their new country home was one of those
places that made you feel safe and secure and that you knew whatever was going on in your life, bad or good, you could always
go there and stay until you could figure things out.Her Grandparents both had nicknames and Emily would love to use them
because she knew she shouldn't. LOL Their nicknames were Fat for her grandpa and Pug for her grandma. She just loved those
names. Her Grandma & Grandpa took care of Emily and her older sister Elizabeth when they were young, due to some family
problems. Emily didn't mind that at all because she loved the country and that's where they lived. She loved to help her Grandpa
pick the garden, go fishing, go frogging, and even helped him build his Condo(his retreat away from all of us for a while.)
No one was allowed in the Condo without permission except her Grandma and the family dog named Prince.....so who do you think
made certain that she would go in there anyway.....yes, Emily. She was very rebellious, smart-mouthed, and just downright
ornery at times, but other times she was the sweetest little girl you could have ever known.
  This is Emily's Grandpa Ralph and Grandma Peggy Smith the years that
they were keeping the girls for their Mother.
She also loved to help her Grandma in the kitchen. Her Grandma
did a lot of canning in the summer time and she made Emily and Elizabeth wash jars for her just like her mother and I had
to do when we were their age. We complained too, until we had all that good stuff to eat in the winter. She also loved Pizza
night. That was where my mom would make all these crusts and put the sauce on and then let you decide what you wanted on yours
and the entire pizza was just for you. Of course she loved it and so did her mother and I when we were kids and still do.
LOL She didn't get along well with her sister Elizabeth. They had what you would call a ("Love,Hate") relationship just like
her mother and I do. Complete opposites, but never doubted their love for one another. They could say bad things to each other,
but don't even consider anyone else saying something about one of them or the fight was on. I guess there were some things
her mother and I didn't need them to take after us for. Emily also loved it because her Grandma made all their clothes for
them. Emily loved the fact that she had real pretty dresses that none of the other kids had. All in all, she was just a normal
and happy little girl with a big sister
 This is Emily cooking in Grandma's kitchen. The photo was taken only
3 months before her murder when she went to stay with her Grandma & Grandpa for a couple of weeks. My Mom always said
that Emily made a real mess when she cooked and then thought someone else should have to clean it up, but Grandma wasn't going
for that, so Emily learned how to clean up her mess while she was cooking. LOL
 She also loved the days(usually on Fridays) when Grandma and
Grandpa would take her and Elizabeth to the nursing home to see her great Grandma, who was Cherokee Indian. It upset Emily
so bad to see her great Grandma in such pain, but she still always wanted to go see her. She said that she could always make
her smile and she usually did too. Emily had a very big heart and was good to everyone except herself.Her weakness was animals
and old people so that gives you an idea of what sort of person she was. She was a real firecraker and always into something......whether
it was good or bad. She had no happy medium.
This photo was taken of my Mom, Dad, Sister and Emily's Great Grandma
Smith.She had just went back to Texas to stay with her Mom, but had made my Mom promise to take a photo of her Great
Grandma Smith for her(The Cherokee).
Her Grandpa passed away several years ago from cancer and I'm
sure that wherever she is, she is right by his side. Right after her Grandpa passed away, Grandma sold the old (Homestead)
because she just couldn't keep up with a big place like that all alone and also she was alone so much that we really felt
she would die of loneliness if she didn't move. Emily, like all of us, would have hated to see it sold, but she loved her
Grandma so much that this is what she would have wanted too. Her grandma is still alive and now lives in Poplar Bluff, MO
and is very active with her church and works at the Senior Citizens Food Cart and also a nursing home, so she stays
very busy. She also is praying for the day that Emily's killer will be caught. Emily's Grandpa died on his
and Mom's 50th wedding anniversary.
This is Emily's Grandpa Smith taken a couple of years before he died.
He was a good man and greatly missed.
This is the way that Emily told her Grandpa that they danced in Grandma's
church. LOL
Emily also loved going to church on Sunday's.The first time they went Emily
came home and told her Grandpa that he should have gone with them because they even danced at that church and you didn't have
to be quiet because everyone was yelling.My Dad just laughed and told her that he couldn't dance.If you haven't already
figured this out, my Mom always took us to a Pentecostal church.LOL She always wore her Party Dress just for church
since they always had a party when she went.
This is Emily and her older sister Elizabeth sitting on their
Grandpa's lap waiting to go to church in their party dresses. LOL
Emily also had one very special thing that her Grandma had made
for her and that was an apron. Not just any apron,this was special and made just for her.In the front of the apron
my Mom had sewed different colored little pockets where Emily could keep her fat crayons in and no won could take them and
use them. They helped Emily learn her colors, because each color had a pocket where the fat crayons went. Then Mom went to
the waist band of the apron and embroidered her name on it with Big Yellow color. She loved this apron so much that she
still had it when she was murdered and still had the fat crayons in it. Her Mother still has that apron and there
have been occasions where a psychic would held it and get message from Emily. She probably told them to put it down because
that was hers the hers only. LOL
Well that about does it for her staying with her Grandpa and
Grandma, but I know there is a lot more. She was just so happy there. I don't think she was a true Texan. LOL
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