Just a year old when
the family moved to Naples in Scott County,
Illinois, Cora was born on the 11th of
February in Tuscarawas County. She was
considered the "puny" child by her
mother and was nicknamed Pet.
She
was enumerated in her mother's household in
the 1870 Scott County, Illinois
census as age six, the youngest daughter of
her widowed mother.
She
moved with her mother and family in 1876 to
Woodson County, Kansas and married at the age
of 17, Victor Horton, one of the two Horton
brothers whose parents had come to Kansas in
about 1861 homesteaded a farm a few miles
south of Yates Center. The Horton
brothers had boarded with her mother;
and Victor's brother Thaddeus had
married her older sister Ida the previous
year.
Victor
and Cora had a son, Chalmers Horton, who was
born in 1882 (later adopted by the VanSlack
family of Denver, Colorado), and since no
record of divorce has been located for Cora
and Victor, it is presumed that she was
widowed early on as she was married a second
time in 1886.
Her
second husband was John Vincent who had been
born about 1860 and whom she married in
1886. She had by him two children and
when the marriage ended in divorce, John
obtained custody of the children and did not
allow them to see Cora or her sister Bell who
had taken care of the children for about two
years.
Her
third marriage was in about 1897 to a farmer
by the name of Piersol or Piersall who moved
Cora to Oklahoma in December of that
year. Unto this union was born two
daughters, the youngest, Gladis, was only
three weeks old when Cora died of lung
congestion at the age of 34 in 1898 in
Apache, Oklahoma. She was laid to rest
at Navina
Cemetery in Logan Co., Oklahoma.
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