| Daughter of Samuel &
Cornelia (Buck), Cora Adeline was born during the
Civil War on 07 Jul 1862 in Warren Co., Illinois
not long before what would become known as the
Second Battle of Bull Run or Second Manassas
where more than twenty-six thousand soldiers were
either killed, wounded or missing. She married John
Monroe Williams on 03 Mar 1880 in Pettis Co.,
Missouri at the time the cattle business was
booming in the West. Cora lived long enough to
read about the death of Billy the Kid and the
lynching of Cattle Kate. She died not long after
the Spanish-American War and the same year Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid robbed the Union
Pacific.
Cora and
John were the parents of: Mabel, Julia, Fred,
Charlotte, Rachel, Mary E. Williams, and possibly
one other daughter. She died on 13 Sep 1899 just
before the turn of the century in Sedalia, a town
in Pettis Co., Missouri which prospered in its
early days from industry brought by the Missouri
Pacific and Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad lines.
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