SEGLE/SEAGLE AND RELATED FAMILIES:Information about CORA PARLEE SEAGLE
CORA PARLEE SEAGLE (b. May 11, 1891, d. March 1988)
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Source for the following:
Letters from Cora Parlee Seagle Patton to Eula Virginia Spivey Springer Harterink.
Originals in possession of Eula's daughter Carolyn Springer Harding.
Letter 1, 4 pages
1978
RFT, Box 416
Morganton, N.C.
Dear Eula and Karol
I received your nice card. Sure was glad to hear from you.
We here are well as usual. I don't ever feel well anymore. I have to take medication all the time.
I am glad you did see Aunt Ella while she could talk and know you. Some of my family and Jessie's family went to the funeral, and Bety told me at the funeral that they were to see her that night and she knew them and laughed and talked and in the night she went into a coma and just passed away, but we know where to find her. One of the last reunions she was at, she told me when she got to heaven she just wanted to bow at
jesus's feet and praise him for keeping her and saving her and I'm sure she got to do just that, and I want to meet her there too, and so many others, and now Eula it can't be long. I'm 86 years old last May. That is the way I've kept up with my age. I was never sure about my age and I don't think Ella, but I know I've been here a long time, and some of my life was hard, and wd was Ella's, but some of it I wouldn't change, only to serve the Lord better, the one that has buided me all the way.
You said in your letter to tell you about my people. I thought your mother would have told you, maybe more than I can ell. Some time after my mother and dad were married, they moved from North Car. to South Car. and he worked at a cotton mill, and my mother died in S.C. and was buried there. Then we went from place to place. He would get someone that he knew to keep Jassie and me. We stayed a long time with one of his half brothers a while and that was in Tennessee, but I don't know where. I don't know the post office. I remember the homes of some of the people till now. I remember being at their houses. I think I must have some relatives there yet. My Dad's brother that we stayed with was Marion Seagle, but they have all passed away. Our Grandfather came here from Germany, he and a brother. our Grandady's name was George Seagle, and the brother I don't know his name, but that has been over one hundred years ago. It would have to be, for I've been married 68 ys. Tom Seagle and Jessie Seagle our first cousin told me a lot of things.
I will close for now. I hope you can read this.
I didn't tell you but Jessie and me are all of our family that are living. I mean the brothers and sisters and Jessie is in a rest home or health center near Morganton N.C. and the center is close to one of her girls home so she can see her every day and Jessie is doing very well, her mind is not good. She don't remember who has been to see her long after they leave.
Hope all of you had a good Christmas.
God bless all of you till we meet again.
Love
Aunt Cora and Winnie
Letter 2, 3 pages
Jan. 16, 1979
Dear Eula and Karol
I was glad to hear from you. I didn't aim to wait so long to write. Sometimes I don't feel like writing and I had to put put off things that I really have to do and want to do.
I'm glad you have a good Christmas and could be with your children.
We all try to get together some place at Christmas and have a dinner or supper. Our families are so large now that we go to a place out where they have a large dining room and eat together.
I have eleven children and they all are married, so I have several grandchildren, but they are all sweet and I love them a lot, and they are so good to me.
Eula, you were speaking of your mother. I never knew your mother or grandmother. I never knew there was such a person. I did know sister Ella of course and I knew she was just my half sister because she was with us when my mother died, but I didn't know how long. When we got seperated I didn't know where she was. I thought of her many times and wondered if I would ever get to see any of them anymore, but some how I felt that I would, and as the years went by I believe God worked it all out. It would take a lot of writing to tell the whold story, maybe sometime we can meet and talk more. Many things have happened in all of our lives that we don't understand in this would, but one thing know God has kept and guided all the way and now Jessie and me are all of our whole family that is living and Jessie is in a rest home and she seems to get weaker all the time. My health is not good. I have a bad heart and for years I've had high blood pressure.
I get to see Jessie pretty often, but neigher of us are well. I still go to church and others sometimes and have to visit the Dr. some too.
We would be glad to see you if you can come to see us.
I've been with Winnie several years. My husband passed away in May, 1970.
I'll close now
Our love to all of you
Aunt Core and Winnie
Letter 3, 4 pages
April 21, 1981
Rt 1, Box 416
Morganton, N.C.
Dear Eula and David
I recieved a letter from you sometime ago. You were asking me about my family or our family.
I may tell you some things that you don't know.
My mother died when I was very small. I remember her death and Jessie said she had no recollection of her at all. Sister Ella was with us at that time. She may have told you some things that I don't remember. We were in Pacolet, S.C. at this time. I'm not sure where we went when we left there.
My dad met my mother in Crabtree community close to Clyde, N.C. You may know where that is. We lived there till I was born and Jessie may have been born there too.
My dad went to South Carolina to work and we, Jessie, me and my mother went to him. Tom Seagle, my half brother told me that he took us to the train station and seen us off on the train. We went to Pacolet where my dad was working and my mother got very sick there and had the care of two or three doctors andnone of them seemed to do her any good. They told him to move her out in the county where it was quiter. All that I have heard my dad say about my mother's illness but she didn't live very long after we moved. She had a bad heart. She fell dead in the floor. I remember seeing her laying in the floor, but I was so young I didn't know that it was all about till I was older.
Then my dad moved from place to place. He would leave us with some one that he knew and go and find work. We went to Marshall, N.C. and I went to school some. We went to Tennessee and stayed with my dad's half brother and he went to work some where and came occassionaly to see us but they were good to us. His name was Marion Seagle and I have never seen them again.
I didn't know anything about your mother. I didn't know there was such a person. If he ever mentioned anything about her I don't remember it.
Then after so many years passed, I got to meet Jesse Seagle. He lived at Marion, N.C. and through him I got to see all my people.
I'm getting a little ahead. Sometime during all this we went to Greenville, S.C. and I worked in the cotton mill and dad got sick. I knew he was sick, but I never thought he would die, but I know now that I'm old he really was was sick and he brought us to Asheville where he though there was a school or orphanage, but when we got there, there was no school and someone told my dad about the Ethanon School in Marion, N.C. and he took us there and met Miss Mattie Perry, the owner and dad left in a couple days and we never got to see him again. In about two weeks we got a letter from Tom Seagle that he had passed away.
And now as I think of all the past, I can see just how the Lord was leading all the way and it seems the Lord just opened up the way. Miss Perry took us in and it was a long building. we had a place to worship and go to school and eat our meals and sleep all in the same building without going out of the building.
We were there about 5 years, then I met my husband through some of his sisters that went to school there. Their mother was dead also, but for several years before that, she had been sick for a good while before she passed away.
In 1970 we had passed our 60th wedding anniversary.
I can't write much and I have been sick so much in the last two years and I'm getting old too. My hand is shaking so I do bad writing.
The Lord gave us eleven children. They are all grown now and married now. Two of them are widowed, but they are good to me and I don't have any inlaw trouble. I think a lot of all my inlaws.
I hope you can read all this bad writing.
I hope sometime we can get together and can talk some. If you want to ask my anything, I have not told in this letter, you can ask when you write.
Love from
Winnie and all.
Aunt Cora
Source for the following:
Excerpt from History of McDowell Co.
by Mildred B. Fossett
The Elhanan School was in Marion and was run by a Miss Mattie Perry. Between
1887 and 1893 there were a group of railroad men who began construction on a
resort hotel on what is now the property where East Junior High now stands.
They were about 2/3 completed when Barring Brothers English Bank failed and
construction was stopped.Miss Mattie Perry then bought the property and
established The Elhanan Training School. A school for girls. The Elhanan
School was destroyed by fire in 1928 and was not rebuilt.
Source for the following:
Burke County, North Carolina census - 1920
Silver Creek Township, Jamestown Road - #31/31
Patton, Dave A. head age 34owns farm/paid for marriedreads/writes farmer b.NC
, Cora wife age 26 reads/writesb.NC
, Jonnie, son age 8 reads/writesb.NC
, Winnifred, dau. age 6b.NC
, Ruth dau. age 3 11/12b.NC
, Auther son age 1 4/12b.NC
, Jno. M. Father In Law age 63 widowed reads/writes b.NC
, Nellie Half Sister age 8 reads/writesb.NC
Source for the following:
Social Security Death Index
CORA PATTON
SSN 238-84-0582 Residence:28655Morganton, Burke, NC
Born 11 May 1891 Last Benefit:
Died Mar 1988 Issued:NC (1966)
More About CORA PARLEE SEAGLE:
Burial: 1988, Mt. Olive Cemetery, Dysartsville Rd., Burke Co., North Carolina
Children of CORA PARLEE SEAGLE and DAVID ALEXANDER PATTON are: