poverty and the death of 3-year-old Frank Mirick eroded Emma Bell Miles's health. In 1915 she had been diagnosed with tuberculosis and, after spending several years in the Pine Breeze Sanitarium in Chattanooga she died in a small house Frank had rented in what is now North Chattanooga. By this time her husband and the younger children were living with his parents while the twins, Jean and Judith, had been sent away to school. Emma Bell Miles died on March 19, 1919, and was buried in a simple grave in Red Bank, Tennessee. Legacy Grace Toney Edwards gave a talk on her at the Glencoe Mansion in 2017. Bibliography References External links "Some Real American Music" by Emma Bell Miles in Harper's Magazine: (1904), Volume 109. Google Books. Some Real American Music -- Reexamined Article about Miles' pioneering writing on American folk music, "Some Real American Music." Emma Bell Miles Southern Appalachia art, correspondence, and journals, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Digital Collection 1879 births 1919 deaths American women short story writers American short story writers American women poets Writers from Evansville, Indiana People from Red Bank, Tennessee Writers from Tennessee People from Signal Mountain, Tennessee Burials in Tennessee