Leota Cornman (1876)

Ancestors

Biography

Leota was born in 1876. She is the daughter of Alexander Cornman and Elizabeth Norris.

The 1880 census shows Leota, age 4, in the household of her parents in Decatur, Macon, Illinois, United States, with four older siblings and a cousin.^[1]

in 1910, she was living with her mother, sister, brother-in-law in a household that included six boarders.^[2].

Her mother’s obituary, in 1921, refers to her as “Miss Leota Cornman”, and gives her residence as “Decatur”. Leota would have been about 45 years old When her mother died. ^[3]

The 1940 census shows Leota (“Leata Carnman” in the transcription) living in the household of her brother, James F. Cornman, in Cuba, Benton Township, Crawford, Missouri, United States. Her age is givens as 63.^[4]

The records suggest suggest that she never married.

Sources

1. ↑ “United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXVN-3KJ : 13 January 2022), Leota Cornman in household of Alex C. Cornman, Decatur, Macon, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district ED 148, sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M21Y-LRK : accessed 20 February 2022), Leotta Cornman in household of Elizabeth Cornman, St Louis Ward 23, St Louis (Independent City), Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 367, sheet 1B, family 9, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 821; FHL microfilm 1,374,834.
3. ↑ "Aged Resident Decatur Dies." Herald and Review (Decatur, Illinois), Sunday, 17 Jul 1921, page 13. Newspapers.com.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7Q3-3SB : 28 July 2019), Leata Carnman in household of James F Carnman, Cuba, Benton Township, Crawford, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 28-1, sheet 6B, line 53, family 125, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2100.