I wanted to share this studio photo of Cora Morgan with the community. Location: Roff, Pontotoc, Oklahoma, United States. Date: unknown.
I don't think that you could have called Central Casting and found a more iconic Okie farm wife. She looks as if she just stepped of a 1930's movie set. Her waved hair, her spectacles, her look of gracious patience seem to radiate homespun virtues.
She was born in the Oklahoma Indian Territories in 1889. She lived through the Dustbowl of the 1930's. During the Second World War she worked in a defense plant, American Aviation in Inglewood, California.
This portrait seems to be the companion to her husband's photo, so it leads me to believe that her clothes are her everyday wear The seam of her dress has started to pull apart on the yoke of her right shoulder. I'm sure when she saw it, she blushed. (She had worn her beautiful ivory broach .)
I never met Cora, she passed before I was born. I have heard stories about her feisty attitude, her sense of fun, and her big heart. Of all my ancestors, I feel that she is the one that I would have loved the most.
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