Sarah “Sallie” Gertrude Coor Sones, Older Sister of Martha Jane Coor Lancaster
Martha Jane Coor, my 3x-great-grandmother, was the youngest daughter of James Madison “Matt” Coor and Melissa Ann Welch. Her older sister, Sarah Gertrude Coor, was the oldest daughter, born thirteen years earlier in 1860. In total, James and Melissa had ten children, two of whom died in childhood.
Melissa died in 1876, a year after the youngest, Daniel, was born. By then, Sallie was sixteen and likely took on the role of caring for the younger children and the household. The next sister, Irma Anna, was twelve and probably helped, too. Martha and Daniel, the two youngest were three and one. The other older children were likely in school part of the time or helped Matt on the farm.
Proof of this was the 1880 census. Matt was a forty-seven-year-old farmer and widowed. Eight children ranging from five to twenty-one lived on the farm. Sallie was keeping house. The four oldest boys were working the farm. [1]
Sometime in 1881, the family moved to Erath County, Texas. Sally was the first to marry when she married John R. Sones on 11 January 1882. [2]
Together, they had eight children, with six living to adulthood: James O (1884-1956), Henry S (1886-1955), John Byron (1891-1932), Guy Franklin (1893-1959), Myrtle (1898-1971), and Thomas Ray (1900-1967). [3]
A newspaper account in the Dublin Progress tells of the Sones and Coor families visiting. In 1914, Sallie had been ill but was feeling better and on the same page, Mrs. W.C. Lancaster and her daughter were visiting her.[4] Her sister, Martha Jane, married William Carlton Lancaster on 19 March 1892. [5]
I have no photo of Sallie but her profile at FamilySearch Family Tree does. [6]
Sallie died on 12 April 1924 of diabetes. [7] She was buried at Greens Creek Cemetery the next day with the Rev. Schuler of the Methodist Church officiating. Also added in the notice: “Mrs. Sones has lived in and around Dublin for a number of years and was well known and appreciated by a host of friends for her many good qualities. She is survived by her husband and several children.”
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1. U.S. census, Copiah Co, Mississippi, Browns Store, ED 27, p. 281d (stamped), family 164, James M. Coor.
2. Erath Co, Texas, marriages, v. C, p. 63, J.R. Sones to Miss S.G. Coor, 1882, imaged, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9P3Y-9BSV); IGN 004820345, image 336 of 967; Erath County Clerk, Stephenville.
3. The 1900 census had the youngest, Ray, who was four months and she claimed bearing eight children with six living. See 1900 US census, Erath Co, Texas, ED 67, Precinct 2, p. 92 (stamped), fam 227, John R. Sones.
4. “Harbin,” Dublin Progress, 12 Jun 1914, p. 6, col. 3, The Portal to Texas History (https://texashistory.unt.edu/).
5. Erath Co, Texas, marriages, v. F, p 65, W.C. Lancaster to Miss Mattie Coor, 1892. FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GP3B-LT); IGN 004820345, image 848 of 967.
6. “Sarah Gertrude “Sallie” Coor, Family Tree profile L4RB-58P, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/L4RB-58P).
7. Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Death Certificate, 1924, no. 12655, Sarah Gertrude Coor.
8. "Mrs. John Sones Dies at Harbin," The Dublin (Texas) Progress, 18 Apr 1924, p. 8, col. 1, digital image, The Portal to Texas History (https://texashistory.unt.edu).
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