EMMA V. QUARLES (16 Apr 1852 - 4 Nov 1932):

Emma V. Quarles was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas on April 16, 1852.  She is listed as a student at the Fayetteville Female Seminary for the year 1859-1860 school year.  She married Richard Marr Darnall in Washington County, Arkansas, on May 21, 1873.  He was born August 2, 1849 in Tennessee and died March 27, 1901. 

From Lake County, History of Tennessee 1887:  Richard M. Darnall, the third son of Henry M. Darnall, is, now a leading lawyer of Lake County; was born August 2, 1849.  At sixteen he entered Beech Grove College, and remained two years.  At the age of eighteen years old a difficulty occurred between his father's family and two young men, Robert L. and Clinton G. Lane.  One of them was a graduate of Yale College and went to Lake County in the capacity of a teacher.  He met and married a niece of Mr. Darnall's, and the latter generously gave them a nice home, besides lending them several thousand dollars.  In spite of this kindness they forged the will of Mr. Darnall, so that she might, at his death, receive $20,000; but as Mr. Darnall was a very robust man, they decided to kill him, selecting Cullen C. Edwards as an accomplice, all three of them being leading Kuklux.  One night the youngest Lane went to Mr. Darnall's house and endeavored to insult him; when Mr. Darnall turned to enter the house Lane drew a navy pistol from the born of his saddle and attempted to shoot him, but before he could fire, Richard Darnall reached him and prevented the shot; he then attempted to shoot him, but the latter, seeing that it was kill or be killed, drew a pistol from his pocket and shot Lane, inflicting a wound from which he came near dying.  After this the two Lanes and Edwards swore vengeance against the Darnalls, and meeting Richard and his oldest brother coming from the steamer Belle of Memphis, they commenced firing upon them; but the Darnall boys succeeded in killing all three of them without receiving any wounds.  To escape the Kuklux, Richard went to northern Texas, and soon after entered the University of Mississippi, at Oxford, and entered under the name of Mathew Darnall.  He wanted but a few lessons of graduating when the detectives found he was there and started to arrest him; but receiving information of this he left Oxford and went into Memphis, passing the train going out with the officers.  A telegram was sent to Memphis stating he was on the train and officers were there to arrest him; but when nearing the city he rang the bell to stop the train, and jumping from the cars, went around the city, crossed the river and made his escape.  Soon after this Mr. Darnall commenced reading law under J. D. Reagan, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, and while there, in 1873, he married Emma V. Quarles, born April 16, 1852, in Fayetteville.  They have four sons and one daughter.  In politics he is a Democrat.  In the Forty-third General Assembly he represented the floating vote of Lake, Dyer and Obion Counties, and was an able legislator.  In 1873 he moved back to Madrid Bend, where he has given his time to his profession.  He owns 400 acres of land, renting it all out except fifteen acres, which he reserves for experimental horticulture.

Emma is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Fort Worth, Texas.