Emma forsayth coe biography of abraham

When Mary Emma Simmons was born on 13 March 1879, in Alleghany, North Carolina, United States, her father, Joel Simmons, was 19 and her mother, Mary Ellen Sparks, was 15. She married John Henry Cox on 27 July 1900, in Alleghany, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Forsyth, North Carolina, United States in 1920 and Thurmond, Surry, North Carolina, United States for about 11 years. She died on 29 May 1966, in Elkin, Surry, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Thurmond, Surry, North Carolina, United States.

Emma Coe, born in Samoa in 1850 of mixed American/Samoan parentage, was educated in and the States before returning, against her father’s will to Samoa.In 1878, after the death of her first husband at sea, she and Thomas Farrel began a trading business in Mioko on the Duke of York Islands just off the coast here. She became the first real planter in PNG when she established a plantation on the site at Ralum including where the golf course now stands.

She was an exceptionally smart business woman expanding her empire to trade stores, several plantations and shipping. She enjoyed a lavish lifestyle including legendary parties in her mansion Gunantambu (seen above). In particular she liked men’s company, acquiring a number of husbands and lovers over her life-time. It was here in where she became known as Queen Emma – a legend in her own lifetime.

Before World War I broke out, she sold up and moved to . Emma and her last husband Paul Kolbe died in in 1913 within 2 days of each other. Emma’s ashes, interred in the local cemetery here disappeared, along with her headstone, which turned up in in a cemetery on South Head beside what is thought to be her son’s grave.

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