Biography
Emma May Elliot was born in 1898 to William J. Elliot, a barber, and Mary Kelly Elliot in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She attended the Yale School of Music from 1919 to 1920, living with her uncle and aunt at 103 Country Street and attended St Luke’s Episcopal Church.

She returned home and taught at Southside High School. The 1930 census reported that she continued to teach in Fayetteville. According to the 1940 census, the last known record of her, Elliot lodged with a principal and three other teachers in Nashville, North Carolina.


1. “New Haven, Conn.,” The New York Age, April 10, 1920, 2; “Negro Schools Will Open On Next Monday,” Fayetteville Daily Observer, September 16, 1922, 1;"United States, Census, 1930", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X3SX-ZQ1 : Sun Mar 10 00:18:53 UTC 2024), Entry for William Elliott and Mary Elliott, 1930; "United States, Census, 1940", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWQZ-HRR : Sun Jan 19 23:37:38 UTC 2025), Entry for William L Greene and Georgia R Greene, 1940. ↩
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Full Name: Emma May Elliot
Family Name: Elliot
Yale Affiliation: Attended Yale School of Music 1919-1920
Birth Date: 1898
Birth Place: Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States
Educated At: Yale School of Music
Places Lived: Nashville, North Carolina, United States

Information sourced from Yale Univ. Library- Shining the Light on Truth: Early Black Students at Yale.