Cora J. Swank

- 1936

• Name	Cora J. Swank  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Residence	1889	Bennet, Nebraska, USA   [2]
  Residence	21 July 1896	Denver, Colorado, USA   [3]
  Died	Before 1936  [1]
  Person ID	I5822	Full | ProgenitorWalker
  Last Modified	10 May 2022

  
  

  Father	Samuel Swank,   b. 10 Jan 1827, Harrison County, Indiana, USA ,   d. Mar 1899, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA  (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Sarah Walker,   b. Abt 1830, Madison County, Illinois, USA ,   d. 18 Oct 1912, El Dorado County, California, USA  (Age ~ 82 years)
  Married	1 Jan 1850	Rock Island County, Illinois, USA   [4]
  	Samuel Swank's 1889 Otoe County, Nebraska, biography offers a marriage date of 1847, but their recorded marriage date is actually 1850.
  Family ID	F1558	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Leines H. Bertz
  Married	11 Sep 1882	Lincoln, Lincoln County, Nebraska, USA   [2, 3]
  Narrative	14 May 1892  [3]
  	Court case in Lincoln Nebraska states that her first husband (Bertz) deserted her this date. After divorce she was given custody of 12-year-old daughter. Daughter got off train where her father lived and he tried to keep her. Custody battle. Same article indicated her marriage to Day.
  Divorced	5 May 1896  [3]
  Children	1. Hattie J. Bertz
  Last Modified	10 May 2022
  Family ID	F3337	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	[husband of Cora J. Swank] Day
  Married	1893-1896  [3]
  Last Modified	10 May 2022
  Family ID	F3339	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S3125] Lawson Howland (showland@cableone.net) to Janis Walker Gilmore (Pawleys Island, SC), email, 4 February 2013; attached was they typescript of material written by J. N. Wannamaker and printed in "The Times" [locale not stated] on 31 December 1936, based on a letter that Mr. Wannamaker received from Martha "Mattie" (Paul) Rippy regarding her Paul and Walker ancestry, as well as a description of their lives in Kansas. Mr. Wannamaker's wife Sadie (Paul) Wannamaker was Mattie Rippy's younger sister and both were the children of Eliza (Walker) Paul, the daughter of Samuel A. Walker. [S1760] Portrait and Biographical Album of Otoe and Cass Counties, Nebraska, containing. . . (Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1889), 236-237, biography of Samuel Swank, Otoe County; digital images, USGenNet (http://www.usgennet.org : accessed 14 Nov 2011). [S6569] "She Wants Her Child: Mrs. Cora Day Appeals to the Law for Redress," Lincoln Journal Star (Lincoln, Neb.), 21 July 1896, p. 3, col. 3; digital image Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/ : accessed 10 May 2022). [S1761] Illinois Secretary of State, "Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900," database, Illinois State Archives (http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/archives.html : accessed 14 November 2011), entry for Samuel Swank-Sarah Walker, Rock Island County (1850); citing marriage book A: 43, license no. 577.