Nancy Maryland Corel LaHay Dobbins died on this day in 1917
(92 years ago).

Francois E. LaHay

Francois E. LaHay was born to Marie Aubuchon and Toussaint LaHay about 1829 in St. Genevieve, Missouri.  By 1855 Toussaint and his children moved to Douglas County, Kansas, to do their part in seeing that Kansas became a Pro Slavery state¹

Nancy Maryland Corel married “Frank” LaHay on December 19, 1856 in Douglas County, Kansas².  In 1858 the couple had their first child, Oliver “Ollie”.  A couple of years later in 1861 their daughter Ella was born.

The happiness of this young family was not meant to be.  On April 17, 1862 the Lawrence Republican newspaper ran a notice that Francois LaHay of Clinton Township, Douglas County, Kansas died on the 9th of April in Missouri from lung fever.

Oliver "Ollie" and Ella LaHay

Two years later, in the Thursday, February 11, 1864 edition of the Kansas Weekly Tribune, a notice was printed that Ella LaHay had died at the age of 2 years, 5 months, 9 days.  Three weeks later on March 3, the Kansas Weekly Tribune reported that Olla LaHay, son of Nancy LaHay, died on March 1, aged 6 years, 1 month.

The three LaHay’s were laid to rest on the family plot on the land of Toussaint LaHay.  In 1972 the family was moved to the Clinton Cemetery to make way for the Clinton Dam and Resevoir³.

Nancy Maryland Corel

I want to wish a Happy Birthday to Nancy “Nannie” Maryland Corel LaHay Dobbins!  Today marks the 175 anniversary of her birth.  She was a very remarkable woman who lived through much in her life.

In less than 10 years, Nannie Corel LaHay had gone from living as a minor to being a married woman and a mother, to losing her husband and her children. Less than one month after her son, Oliver LaHay died, Nancy celebrated her 30th birthday. Nannie experienced more in her first thirty years than most must deal with in a lifetime. Nancy remained at the farm she shared with Frank until 1865 when she sold the farm and moved to Wakarusa Township to live with her sister and brother in law, Olivia Corel and Jake McGee, where she met her future husband, James Sellars Dobbins.

Nannie is the great grandmother of Bobby Dobbins Title, the wonderful genealogist who brought the Corel family to life for so many of us!  Bobby recently wrote a great post on how she came to have this photo of her great grandmother.

Just to share with you, the Corel family in Lawrence that Bobby found was my great grandmother.  About a year or so after Bobby wrote to my ‘Grandmama‘, I was asking some questions about our family’s history.  Her response was to pull out the letter from Bobby and for my mom and I to make contact with her.  The rest, as they say, is history!

]]> http://corelcousins.com/2009/03/27/happy-birthday-nannie/feed/ 0 http://corelcousins.com/2009/03/11/brothers-and-sisters-smile-for-the-camera/ http://corelcousins.com/2009/03/11/brothers-and-sisters-smile-for-the-camera/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:29:20 +0000 Paula http://corelcousins.com/?p=437 For the 11th Edition of

Anyone who knows me knows that I am incapable of making decisions and narrowing things down! So, for my first participation in the Smile for the Camera carnival, I have selected eight photos of brothers and sisters from youth to adulthood. I did at least pick only one photo from each family, although I did have a few different photos I could have included, I thought I should save those for another day!

This photo from the 1890s shows that two brothers were able to get along well enough to participate in a community band together.  Gaston Dobbins is on the right in the first row with his trombone, and his younger brother, Scott Dobbins, is nearly hidden on the right hand side of the back row.  Scott and Gaston are the sons of James Sellars and Nancy Maryland Corel Dobbins.

This photo was taken about 1890 of James Pickens and Susannah Clay McGee Corel and six of their children.  Pictured are, from left to right, Ella Corel Bowman, Catherine Corel Hughes, Susannah Clay McGee Corel, Anna Corel Stanley, James Henry Corel, Eugenia “Jennie” Corel Engel, James Pickens Corel, and Charles Wesley Corel, DDS.

This photo of Olivia Gillespie Corel McGee and her sons is from 1906.  Pictured, from left to right, are Richard Oney, Albert Edward, Olivia Gillespie Corel, Thomas Stewart, John Jacob Jr., Solon Neidigh, and Oliver Corel McGee.

This image is from about 1911 and is of Frieda Margaret and Rowena Ruth Newcomb, youngest children of Margaret Salathiel and Frederick Newcomb.  The girls are the grandchildren of Jemima Morris Corel and John Morgan Salathiel.  Jemima Morris Corel is a daughter of Henry Highland and Nancy Matney Corel.

This photo from about 1916 shows the many brothers and sisters of my Great Grandma (Kathryn), also pictured are her parents!  From left to right: James Henry, George Arthur, Glenn James, Augusta “Billie”, Eugene William (front row), Charles Wesley, Kathryn (front row), Gladys Faye, Emma Augusta Miller, John Beasley Corel.

James Henry Corel is the son of James Pickens and Susannah Clay McGee Corel.

This photo is from about 1940 and shows two sets of siblings, left to right, James Conrad “Jimmy” Hahn, Daphne Lorina Canterbury, Billie Kay Hahn, and William Huttig “Billy” Canterbury.  The Hahn children are great grandchildren of James Pickens Corel and the Canterbury children are great grandchildren of Olivia Gillespie Corel McGee.

This photo from about 1954 shows siblings Connie Kay Laughlin and Clinton Ray “Sonny” Laughlin Jr., great great grandchildren of James Pickens Corel.

These three siblings from 1965 show from left to right Susan, Michael, and Donald Charles McFarlin.  In 1970 Donald Charles  (Fletcher – McFarlin) Bishop married Connie Kay Laughlin, second great granddaughter of James Pickens Corel.