Corel Cousins

James Henry Corel was born on June 3, 1865 to Susannah Clay McGee and James Pickens Corel in Wakarusa Township, Douglas County, Kansas.  He was the fifth child, but the first born son.
In April of 1892, James Henry, along with a group  of others from Lawrence, Kansas, had traveled by spring wagon to the Oklahoma [...]

This week’s Tombstone Tuesday is in honor of the 179th anniversary of the birth of Cosby Jane Corel Justice.
Jane, as she often went by, was born on March 17, 1830 in Tazewell County, Virginia.  She was the oldest unwed child of William and Rebecca to travel west with the family into Jackson County, Missouri.
Two months [...]

I personally know very little of Jennie and Charles Engle, but it was a name I grew up hearing.  I have chosen to show their story today because of what I found a couple of years ago when going through some of the documents and photos that my mother obtained after her grandmother’s death.
Every time [...]

William Corel was born April 7, 1828 in Tazewell County, Virginia. William was the ninth child, and second son of William Corel and Rebecca Oney.  He married Margaret Ann McGee about 1857 in Douglas County, Kansas.  Margaret was born December 3, 1827 in Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsylvania.
William Corel traveled west with his family from Virginia [...]

Kathryn Corel is the granddaughter of last week’s Tombstone Tuesday, James Pickens and Susannah Clay McGee Corel, and is my great grandmother.
Kathryn was born November 28, 1908 in Lawrence, Kansas.  She was the youngest of eight children born to James Henry and Emma Augusta Miller Corel.  James Henry Corel was the fifth child of James [...]