Born in Baltimore City to James and Ella May (Linton) Cole, Emma was the youngest of 5 children. Her parents divorced before Emma was four. Emma did not get along with her step-mother, Violet, who had married her father before she was five. Her mother is believed to have died of diphtheria when Emma was eight. Between 1910 and 1920, Emma went to live with a foster family on a tobacco farm in Calvert County. They had no indoor plumbing or electricity. She married the brother of her foster father when she was 19.
Emma had two children, a daughter [Eleanor Mae] with her first husband Paul C. Jones. After his death in 1934, she married her second husband, Ernest Griesser with whom she had a second daughter, Ann Marie. Family lore says she worked for Haussner's restaurant in the 40's and was a friend of Frances Haussner and helped her shop for art. She was divorced from Ernest in the early 60s.
In the mid-50s thru the mid 60s, Emma ran and owned a family-style restaurant in Roland Park on the south side of Cold Spring Lane, half a block west of Alonso's, originally called 'Emma & Erma's Parker House' [after a split with her partner, it became just 'The Parker House']. She met her third husband Leon there. She also taught cooking to women in the restaurant and freely gave her recipes to those who asked.
A caring and creative person, she was a good cook, made homemade watermelon pickles and loved her Budweiser beer. She enjoyed "tatting", quilting and needlepoint. She collected old cast iron banks and paintings of clowns.
Emma had two children, a daughter [Eleanor Mae] with her first husband Paul C. Jones. After his death in 1934, she married her second husband, Ernest Griesser with whom she had a second daughter, Ann Marie. Family lore says she worked for Haussner's restaurant in the 40's and was a friend of Frances Haussner and helped her shop for art. She was divorced from Ernest in the early 60s.
In the mid-50s thru the mid 60s, Emma ran and owned a family-style restaurant in Roland Park on the south side of Cold Spring Lane, half a block west of Alonso's, originally called 'Emma & Erma's Parker House' [after a split with her partner, it became just 'The Parker House']. She met her third husband Leon there. She also taught cooking to women in the restaurant and freely gave her recipes to those who asked.
A caring and creative person, she was a good cook, made homemade watermelon pickles and loved her Budweiser beer. She enjoyed "tatting", quilting and needlepoint. She collected old cast iron banks and paintings of clowns.
Born in Baltimore City to James and Ella May (Linton) Cole, Emma was the youngest of 5 children. Her parents divorced before Emma was four. Emma did not get along with her step-mother, Violet, who had married her father before she was five. Her mother is believed to have died of diphtheria when Emma was eight. Between 1910 and 1920, Emma went to live with a foster family on a tobacco farm in Calvert County. They had no indoor plumbing or electricity. She married the brother of her foster father when she was 19.
Emma had two children, a daughter [Eleanor Mae] with her first husband Paul C. Jones. After his death in 1934, she married her second husband, Ernest Griesser with whom she had a second daughter, Ann Marie. Family lore says she worked for Haussner's restaurant in the 40's and was a friend of Frances Haussner and helped her shop for art. She was divorced from Ernest in the early 60s.
In the mid-50s thru the mid 60s, Emma ran and owned a family-style restaurant in Roland Park on the south side of Cold Spring Lane, half a block west of Alonso's, originally called 'Emma & Erma's Parker House' [after a split with her partner, it became just 'The Parker House']. She met her third husband Leon there. She also taught cooking to women in the restaurant and freely gave her recipes to those who asked.
A caring and creative person, she was a good cook, made homemade watermelon pickles and loved her Budweiser beer. She enjoyed "tatting", quilting and needlepoint. She collected old cast iron banks and paintings of clowns.
Emma had two children, a daughter [Eleanor Mae] with her first husband Paul C. Jones. After his death in 1934, she married her second husband, Ernest Griesser with whom she had a second daughter, Ann Marie. Family lore says she worked for Haussner's restaurant in the 40's and was a friend of Frances Haussner and helped her shop for art. She was divorced from Ernest in the early 60s.
In the mid-50s thru the mid 60s, Emma ran and owned a family-style restaurant in Roland Park on the south side of Cold Spring Lane, half a block west of Alonso's, originally called 'Emma & Erma's Parker House' [after a split with her partner, it became just 'The Parker House']. She met her third husband Leon there. She also taught cooking to women in the restaurant and freely gave her recipes to those who asked.
A caring and creative person, she was a good cook, made homemade watermelon pickles and loved her Budweiser beer. She enjoyed "tatting", quilting and needlepoint. She collected old cast iron banks and paintings of clowns.
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