Cora Etta Watts

1887 - 1974  (86 years)

• Name	Cora Etta Watts  [1, 2]
  Born	15 Dec 1887	Missouri, USA   [3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Female
  Died	12 Apr 1974	Ava, Douglas, Missouri, USA   [1, 6]
  Buried	15 Apr 1974	Douglas, Missouri, USA   [1]
  	Walnut Grove Cemetery
  Person ID	I631	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	22 Feb 2020

  
  

  Father	James Riley Watts,   b. 10 Nov 1860, Missouri, USA ,   d. 12 Nov 1952, Springfield, Greene, Missouri, USA  (Age 92 years)
  Relationship	unknown
  Mother	Amanda Jane Stubbs,   b. 23 May 1856, Christian, Missouri, USA ,   d. 15 Apr 1911, Marion, Ozark, Missouri, USA  (Age 54 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	4 Apr 1880  [7]
  Family ID	F11	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Samuel Prine,   b. 14 Dec 1896, Douglas, Missouri, USA ,   d. 9 Aug 1929, Ava, Douglas, Missouri, USA  (Age 32 years)
  Married	1 Dec 1917	Douglas, Missouri, USA
  Children	1. Elbert Prine,   b. 31 Aug 1918, Ozark, Missouri, USA ,   d. 28 Jul 1975, Pennsylvania, USA  (Age 56 years)  [unknown]  [natural]   2. Hazel Prine   3. Virgil Prine,   b. 27 Oct 1927, Ava, Douglas, Missouri, USA ,   d. 24 Jul 2011, Illinois, USA  (Age 83 years)  [unknown]  [natural]   4. Wanda Prine,   b. 31 Dec 1929, Ava, Douglas, Missouri, USA ,   d. 17 Sep 2019, Warner Robins, Houston, Georgia, USA  (Age 89 years)  [unknown]  [natural]   5. Tracy Prine,   b. 9 Jan 1920, Elkhead, Christian, Missouri, USA ,   d. 21 Oct 2009, Missouri, USA  (Age 89 years)  [natural]  [unknown]
  Last Modified	22 Feb 2020
  Family ID	F217	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 15 Dec 1887 - Missouri, USA Married - 1 Dec 1917 - Douglas, Missouri, USA Died - 12 Apr 1974 - Ava, Douglas, Missouri, USA Buried - 15 Apr 1974 - Douglas, Missouri, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  - Per Grandma's notes: "She [Granny] lost her mother when she was nine years old. Then she learned to do most of the cooking & house work for her father & brothers. I heard her say she had to quit school in the third grade. ...She was a good cook and alway [sic] in a good mood, and had some thing for us when we got home from school. We would go pick up sacks of green walnuts and bring them home. Take the green outer shell off and let them dry for a few days and then she would sit up at night and crack them out by lamp light and take them to town to sell. She would have an old iron in her lap & would use a hammer on the nut to crack it. We sold them by the quart for 75 cents. She walk [sic] to town which was about 5 miles away & worked in a sewing room & then walked home. Sometime she would get a ride. She also did washing for other people's clothes...& ironing." Grandma wrote that Granny made the best pecan swirl cookies, biscuits, corn bread, cinnamon rolls, and pie crust. Furthermore, Grandma said Granny was not very demonstrative: "I don't remember my mother ever hugging or kissing any of us, and it is still hard for me to share things." [Grandmother's Memories to Her Grandchild, 2002] - According to the 1930 Douglas County, Missouri Federal Census, Cora owned her home on a farm. - In April 1965, Cora was living with Virgil Prine, her son, in Pekin, Illinois. (I have a letter Mom wrote to Granny.) - Granny died at 8:15 pm, Friday, 12 April 1974. She was 86 years, 3 months, and 27 days old. Her funeral was taken care of by Clinkingbeard Funeral Home of Ava, Missouri. Reverands Tom Johnson and John Campbell officiated. Pallbearers were Curtis Evans, Colman Gentry, Martin Kellogg, Gilly Buchanan, Clarence Singleton, and Berma Clinkingbeard. Funeral services were held in Clinkingbeard Chapel.

  
  

• Sources

  [S302] Wanda Logue. [S1350] 1920 Census of United States, Missouri, Christian, Elkhead District, East Part Bruner Township, population Schedule; Online Images, E. D. No. 39, sheet no. 4B, dwellings 88 & 89, families 88 & 89, James R. Watts & Sam Prine households. [S276] Social Security Death Index. [S291] Tombstone Inscription. [S1343] 1900 Census of United States, Missouri, Christian, Linn Township, population Schedule; Online Images, E. D. No. 18, sheet no. 3B, dwelling 49, family 55, James R. Watts household, accessed October 2019. Includes wife Amanda; sons William R., Hairrison, George T., and Learoy; and daughters Cora E. and Minnie M. [S4] Lincecum, Stephanie, Funeral Card. [S1356] Ozark County Times, Gainesville, Missouri (online archive), "Obituary," issued 5 May 1911, accessed 23 October 2019, name of interest: Mrs. James Watts, nee Mandy Stubbs.