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Emma was a native of Social Circle, Georgia, and moved with her family to just outside Gadsden in about 1852. She married Christopher B. Johnson on October 29, 1864 and moved to Texas in late 1876 or early 1877. She died August 9, 1900 in Upshur County, TX and is buried in Little Mound Cemetery.

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In 1907, a monument was constructed in Gadsden at the western end of the Broad Street bridge across the Coosa River in honor of her heroism. When the residents of Alabama City, Alabama (later annexed into Gadsden) built a high school in 1929, they named it in her honor. With the consolidation of the three Gadsden city high schools at the end of the 2006 school year, General Forrest Middle School will be closed and Emma Sansom High School will become Emma Sansom Middle School.