I must admit that I'm still confused about the order of the story. I tried my best to put it all into order.
Miss Emily's father dies and around that same time she teaches the young women how to china-paint. After her father dies, Mr. Homer Baron comes to town to fix the roads. While he is in town, he and Miss Emily are quite content together. Also while Mr. Baron is town, Miss Emily's cousins from Kansas come to visit. When done with the work in town, Mr. Baron leaves for awhile until after Miss Emily's two female cousins leave. Homer Baron then returns back to the town to visit Miss Emily. Right before Homer Baron returns, Miss Emily buys the poison. When Homer returns to her, she poisons him. She then poisons Homer to keep him from leaving her alone as her father did. Miss Emily then goes out to town to buy some items to make it appear that she gets married to Homer. As the days, months, years, etc. go by, she becomes older and bigger. She then has her taxes remitted and the stink around her home starts to smell. The aldermen then come to Miss Emilys house to take away the smell. A little while after that, Miss Emily dies. After Miss Emily dies, the townspeople come to the house to pay their respects and to check out what had happened.
