1. Emmitt was in the U. S. Marines during World War II.
1. Bobby R. Huggins book lists middle initial of "C" , date of birth as February 1879, and death after 1937.
2. In 1937 Josie was living at RFD2, Frost, Texas.
1. The initials really did not stand for names although it may be that Susie, his mother, intended that they stand for Roland Glenn (her father's name).
2. He was known as "Preacher" in the family, but no one knows why.
3. "Preacher" was a very fun loving, adventurous, athletic, hard driving young man. He was always challenging the world with, often dangerous, stunts and games. For example: he would attempt to scare young boys who might come upon the cotton trailer at the cotton gin where he often worked during cotton harvest season. He would turn the large cotton suction hose on them and make them think that he was attempting to suck them up with the cotton. He would place children on his back and run through the house with the child's head hitting each door as he ran through them. He had a Santa Clause suite that he liked to put on during Christmas Eve and go up on the roof of the house for small children to see that Santa did come to see them. He would place young boys on the back of half grown steers and open the gate from the cattle pen for them to be bucked off. He would teach young boys to swin by placing a bicycle tube around them and allowing them to paddle in a stock pond. He would not tell the boys that the tube had a hole in it so they just kept swimming even after all the air had leaked out.
4. Uncle Preacher and Aunt Ann also loved to go to the local roadhouse and dance....a practice that some members of the family did not approve.
5. Another fun story concerned how he took his old Ford car down to the local stock pond to wash it. The brakes on the car failed and it plunged into the water. He and his brother, Uncle Dock, went to get the horses, pulled the car out of the pond and finished cleaning the vehicle. The seats were wet but they put blankets over them and went to pick up their dates! The girls got wet sitting on the wet seats. They would tell this story and laugh about how the girls would not go with them again. The fun stories could go on and on because he loved to laugh and have fun.
6. He died while having fun...he was riding a very fast horse with a new saddle (a buck proof saddle that Forrest Huggins had just had a saddler make) in a hoop race event at the Navarro Count Rodeo when he was killed in an accident. The "Hoop Race" was an event in which the rider would attempt to gate4rh small rings onto a stick (pool cue) which he held in his hand while riding his horse down a long race track at full speed. The small rings were suspended from arms on poles spaced along the track. The winner of the event was judged by how many rings they gathered during the time on the track. Preacher was riding the track at full speed when a young man on another horse rode in from of him and they collided. He was trown into the saddle horn and it ruptured his internal organs.
He lived less than a day after the accident.7. Preacher was one of those fun loving people who lived life to the fullest and died doing what he wanted to do, have fun and laugh.