Extracted from The Port Arthur News (Port Arthur, TX)
Friday, March 28, 1947

JASPER MAN BURIED

JASPER March 28 -- Funeral services for Ransom Edward Emmons, 77, were held today at the City cemetery with S. A. Freeman of the Church of Christ officiating. Burial was under the direction of the Stringer Funeral Home. Mr. Emmons died Thursday morning at a local hospital. He had been ill only a short time.