Cora
Knight
formerly Livingston
Born in Barbour County, Alabama, USA
Ancestors 
Daughter of Aaron Jefferson Livingston
and Catherine Jane (Campbell) Livingston
Sister of
Allis Virginia Livingston, Dora Livingston, Bauza (Livingston) Lee, Annie King (Livingston) Rainey, Aaron Gordon Livingston, Shellie Blatha (Livingston) Stinson and Lovie (Livingston) Yance
Wife of
Samuel Beamus Knight Sr.
— married
20 Dec 1894 in Henry County, Alabama, United States
Descendants 
Died
at age 78
in Ashford, Houston County, Alabama, USA [uncertain]
[uncertain]Profile last modified
| Created 20 Mar 2014
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Biography
When Cora Livingston was born on December 8, 1881, in Barbour, Alabama, her father, Aaron, was 25 and her mother, Catherine, was 27. She married Samuel Beamus Knight on December 20, 1894, and they had 11 children together between 1896 and 1914. When her husband Beamus Knight died from the pandemic that swept the world in 1918, she raised her 8 living children without remarrying. She died on March 22, 1960, in Ashford, Alabama, at the age of 78, and was buried in Headland, Henry County, Alabama.
Sources
- US Census (1900, 1920, 1930, 1940); Alabama Find A Grave Index; Alabama, Select Marriages, 1816-1957
- Ancestry.com auto-generated biography, with edits.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Cora by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Cora:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Cora by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Cora:
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~25.00%
50.00%
Mike Seale 
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch ME5663330 [compare], yourDNAportal MIK96c6cdb7, Ancestry member mike_seale33
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~25.00%
H. Knight :
Autosomal DNA Test, GEDmatch QT9531957 [compare]
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