The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1919-08-15
|HIs FAME SECURE
ErMstt lnmortafrr-' Himself BY
Single Sens.
yslt.g ee @olxls" as.ks With Aegga
De risie, cee-Sassr VI sta Mar.
ss.:IaHss,~ Masx Fxw1ss Vt '"-
Martial ityranA

| A man did In Ashsahuia, Ohio, ~
-ensiy whD las soas Iaeh 80 prTpesEs'
ate tbs memory Of Daniel Dscssnf
I ggrn~ts. the man wh0 wrose "ttt1i~-
.aasss Lewis sani:a was his name. lie
was weaatby baeh~ler whose fad
was building ssan agIs*'bta- after his
death hIuepriets Ut meInarias ="
An4sS.can sailors and ssiltAe~ 1hsS
.a~ght Ia ths lnte wag @ere foahd oo
hts desk. The Gaaaumeai. howsSrr,
:hat viii give hia ,isting faase IL ths
| one erected In honor of Emnsu 81
.iuu.t yera0a. Ohio. wA@re Emmrst
sa. born, ead where h. now lies
surtesi
Smiths INTEREST In Erantett has
brought 70 tight many Interesting
,.t,isisz ,asl-ess, lAs .grkia qf Dixie ana
.F>s5, Emmett hitnsslf II - later
sting trom the viewpoint ~ how a
ssa may spring into fame almost
overnight, without knowing ies' Why
and alsp from the viewpoint 81 shat
constitutes Il pJpu'sr soHg. In after
fears Emmett said 70 an old ADunt
Vernon frietd ~ had knaan that
pi4iF IS = dnsilaet to become ~ pop
y.f.I would have written q better"
gut thea maybe be might have pal.
.sis-i IL ao riseh that 4 GOu'd have
esr ~ spp4ai Who kaessf
lu rs youth E'hmeft was q pria'er,
Ie was hfrr IN the amy Cor
shllr, aad then ran away with q ctr
- later he 1eiRssd to organize the
irst tcsro minstrel show ever pas 90
"a An.rrlcn This show made a hlt
IN the t'nlted States and later had n
mecessful run IN England After MS
~tarn "a the United States Emmett
,oine.i n company headed by Dan Try
ant. white playing a, Mechanics hall
n New York bryant tnid Emmett enc
saturday that he must have new
walk around song for The follow
ne Mondays performance, 60 sun
Gay Emmett wrote the BtAS and
words for "ntSis,7 Which was given
ear th-Iiir4t time In Mechanics hall
New York, lp 1850 uBdor the title
pixies Land" The song MES n biz,
from TIE word go aud was soon
adopted hy other travelling companies.
III la;1 Miss Swsnu nynIn sana
,n'yies /, "a s;If,iEaf' il5f6t't n S'kf'f,r
leans. and eventually II .prcad
through the Sauth and became the
var sung Of he Confederate armies.
In 1895 Al G. Field soush, him gut
ind the twn hai happy time review
lne the past. Field Nas astHu'shed 20
ruj Emmett ssl] playing the itddlr
Ard planning g. g. on 3hr road again
although he Mas qutfr ujh. Finally
Emm,'t induced tlcli - take him
out fur u ~ra SOC, lie appeared in
NeNurk. ubo. on August ~, 1885 llr
vas then eighty, bot very vigorous
spd >yry, Ovation ayt"r ovation t"l'
lowed him as hc Travelled through the
South
pur,pg his cIoslns days he was
hr,rcd by ~erkH allowance from
me Actors tlnd ~ New YORK Lizzie
OF ao,h'ps was dorr 20 marx his
grave. although an uf. unstattag hal
been 'oFmeA tor tia, par@Ase Mr.
S,olth. however pW VIZ m"nnm'nt
A. +. ma,ts grove - Noun4 Vtew
cemetery that is credit 70 the man
and tn he donor.
\ curious story hrmsht oat In con-
nertinp Win hts sunE r. that thu orig
tnal "nisies Land referred 70 was
not the South hut an estate on Man
haitian island New York city swncd
BY man by the name OF pixie, who
employed larg" number Of cciorrd
slaves These slaves we're sent south
b., ausr II the rising abolition sentt
ment. and uhile there they iiupre
ytsa,. the rpfralh Il wish | was In
nxles Iand." which aas nner beard |
hy Emmett and became the lnsplra |
ton ~ his sang However that may |
be. Dixie Is always associated sith |