Show DIXIE COMPOSER LIKED OPOSSUM Dan Emmett Wrote Song After Seeing Negroes Load Cotton MT MT Mr VERNON VER-O- Ohio July 11 1 1 By The Tho Associated Press Press- Press There are persons who remember Uie the last days of ot Daniel Decatur Emmett the tha famous composer ot of Dixie who Is burled buried In Mound Mound- view Mound view MI- MI Vernon Mt-Vernon Mt ernon Emmett was as 83 89 years old when he died Heas He was as born here hero In 1816 1815 and died In his cabin not tar far from Iii his birthplace I spent many an hour in Em- Em melts melt's meUs cabin said J W rc Mc- McConkie Mc-Conkle Mc Conkle Conkie How he could sing and play the violin He would sing by the hour in his old age it if a afat afat fat sleek possum were promised him at the end Ho He was passion passion- passionately passionately fond of ot the meat of ot that animal Emmett received Inspiration for forthe forthe forthe the swinging lilt ot of Dixie while watching a a group of ot negroes load cotton on the wharf at lit Memphis according to McConkle They They were humming said McConkle Just keeping time as they juggled the bales and some some- something something some something thing In their attitude and son song gave Emmett the tha inspiration for fr this Immortal tune Emmett always returned to Mt Vernon after alter a tour ot of his bis mm- mm min minstrel etrel troupe Once at the height ot of his glory he came back from England with a fabulous sum in those days HI His grave Is the scene of ot tre- tre frequent fre frequent quent pilgrimages |