Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Tombstone Tuesday - John S. and Julie A. Corley





Corley
John S. Corley
Feb. 9, 1847
Feb. 29, 1936
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Julie A. His Wife
Oct. 7, 1844
June 4, 1917


Buried Sugar Grove Cemetery, Crittenden County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 11 March 2011.

According to his Kentucky death certificate, John Seth Corley died 28 February 1936. He was born in Smith County, Tennessee and was the son of -- Corley and L. Wilkerson, both of whom were also born in Smith County.

The Kentucky death certificate of Julia Ann Corley shows her maiden name as McDowell and she was born in Kentucky. Her father was -- McDowell and her mother was unknown. On the 1850 Crittenden County census, she is listed in the household of Joseph and Mary McDowell, both born in Kentucky.

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by Brenda Joyce Jerome, CG
Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog
http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

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