Emmett Frances Brown was born in Alexandria, Virginia. She was the oldest living daughter of William H. Brown and Helen Atkinson Brown. She was raised in Alexandria until about 1840 when the family moved to "Rippon Lodge". Rippon Lodge was a plantaion owned by her grandfather George Atkinson. In 1849, the family moved to Illinois and settled in Adams and the Hancock County. While living in Fall Creek, Adams County, Illinois Emmett met Ruben Carroll Seehorn. She married him 21 September 1853 in Hancock County, Illinois. Two of her brothers, George E and William A married Seehorn's in Adams county too. Ruben and Emmett had six children, James Ira born in 1854, Mary Helen born in 1856, Josephine Alice born in 1858, Margaret Emmett born in 1860, George Benjamin born in 1862. The last child Lucinda Martha was born in LaGrange, Lewis County, Missouri. The family moved from Fall Creek to LaGrange where Emmett's sister Helen was living. They crossed the Mississippi before ice melt and then waited in LaGrange before they moved on. Emmett's brother Richard and a group of settlers had moved from Hancock and Adams County, Illinois to Nevada, Vernon County, Missouri in 1868-1869. Ruben and Emmett were probably part of that group. When they arrived in Vernon County perhaps most of the good land was gone. By 1870 Ruben and Emmett and family were running a boarding house in Emporia, Kansas. In 1872 they moved west to Ninnescah Township in Cowley County, Kansas. The family remained here until about 1880. The oldest daughters had married by this time so Ruben, Emmett, James, George and Lula moved to Leadville, Colorado to become teasure seekers. The men searched for silver and then gold in Leadville and Cripple Creek, Colorado, while Emmett ran a boarding house for the miners. George returned to Kansas then to Nevada, Missouri where he visited his uncles'. He met and married , and remained in Missouri the rest of his life. At some time between 1886 and 1893 Ruben decided to return to Kansas. He lived with his daughter Maggie and her family until his death in 1914. Lucinda married in 1893 to Frederick Mabie, then Francis Childs Moore in 1897. She moved back to Udall, Kansas by 1912. Emmett and her granddaughter Roe Pearl (Dollie) remained in Colorado until 1899-1900. They moved back to Udall, Kansas and are found in the 1900 Fedral census living there. James is alive in 1900 living in Colorado, and died under strange circumstances a short time later. Emmett and Dollie lived togeter the rest of Emmett life. Dollie married in 1907 and Emmett moved in with the young couple. Emmett moved with the family and their two years old daughter to San Juan, Hadeligo County, Texas in 1911. By 1920, Emmett was eighty six years old. She died in May while Dollie's husband, Henry, lay stricken with Typhoid Fever. Her body was lifted out the window and hastily buried at San Juan Cemetery. Henry died eleven days later. His body was shipped home to Udall for buriel.