Mary Elizabeth Patrick 1855-1918

Great Grandmother - Paternal

Mary Elizabeth Patrick was born on April 19, 1855 to Fredrick and Francis A. Austin Patrick being the third of their ten children. She was born at the family farm in Walton County, Georgia where the family had lived for over 60 years (See Source 1). After 1870 (See Source 2) and before 1877 (See Source 3) the family moved to Blount County, Alabama where Mary met and married William Cargill Cornelius (See Source 4) and soon thereafter started a family. Their children were:

1. Emma "Ida" Cornelius (1878-1961); married Luther Berry Hobson
2. "Albert" William Cornelius (1880-1946); married Josephine "Josie" Ozella McKinley
3. John Luther Cornelius (1883-1955); married Carrie Edna
4. James Emmanuel "Manuel" Cornelius (1886-1957); never married
5. Professor "Fess" Cornelius (1895-1975); married Dartha "Dorothy" Esther Hembree
6. Thomas "Tom" Edward Cornelius (1898-1979); married Bella Mae Ketchum 

The family moved from Blount County, Alabama to Ferris, Texas before 1886 accompanied by Mary Elizabeth’s family. There were other relatives already living in the Mt. Peak area of Ellis County, Texas. William and Mary’s last 2 sons were born in Texas in 1895 and 1898. It is recorded on the 1900 Census Delta County, Mary bore 8 children but only 6 were living. It is unknown where these were born but it is likely in Texas since they moved around the time Manuel was born in Alabama and there is a nine year gap between he and Fess.

1900 U. S. Census

The family were farmers and hoped for a better life in Texas and land in Oklahoma where they were living when Mary Elizabeth became a widow in 1908. Mary Elizabeth died on January 2, 1918 in Hugo, Choctaw County, Oklahoma and was buried in Troy Cemetery.

Mary Elizabeth Patrick Cornelius Headstone

Fess, Tom, Bella Mae, at Roy's gravestie

Sources:

1. Year: 1860; Census Place: Northern Division, Walton, Georgia; Roll: M653_139; Page: 1045; Image: 510; Family History Library Film: 803139
2. Year: 1870; Census Place: Gwinnett, Georgia; Roll: M593_154; Page: 90A; Image: 184; Family History Library Film: 545653
3. Year: 1880; Census Place: Beat 5 and 22, Blount, Alabama; Roll: 2; Family History Film: 1254002; Page: 444A; Enumeration District: 006; Image: 0619
4. "Alabama Marriages, 1809-1920 (Selected Counties)"; Dodd, Jordan R., comp.; Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.Original data - Early American Marriages: Alabama, 1800 to 1920.Original data: Early American Marriages: Alabama, 1800 to 1920