Born in Canning, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada
Ancestors 
Daughter of Benjamin Legge
and Anne A. (Corkum) Legge
Sister of
John Harding Legge, Mary Elshea (Legge) Millet, Dora Delilah (Legge) Corbin, Thomas Leander Legge, Ella A. (Legge) Maxwell, Floyd Lemert Legge, Emma Celestia Legge, Effie Laurentine (Legge) Whitten, Bertha Everette (Legge) Lyons, Pearl Blanche (Legge) Lyons and Benjamin Wyman Legge
Wife of
Ralph Spinney Lyons
— married
14 Jul 1918 in Scots Bay Road, Nova Scotia
Died in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
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| Created 26 Aug 2008
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Biography
Cora was born October 15, 1895 in Canning, Nova Scotia.
She was under 10 years old when her mother died.
Cora came down from Nova Scotia to live with Effie and Edward Whitten. She returned to Nova Scotia to marry Ralph Lyons.
Cora and Ralph lived in Dedham, Massachusetts, and Westwood, Massachusetts. They had no children of their own; but were foster parents to a young boy, whom they called Ralphie. His mother (and perhaps father) were unable to support him. Cora and Ralph gave Ralphie back to his mother, when she was able to work and support herself and her son.
In 1920, according to the census, she and Ralph were living with the Whittens together.
Cora's husband Ralph passed away in 1969. Cora died at age 93, on January 31, 1989; in Leominster or Worchester, MA (according to Social Security Death Index records.)
Sources
- "Recensement du Canada de 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV9R-6PPQ : 16 March 2018), Cora Legg in entry for Benjamin Legg, 1911; citing Census, Kings Sub-Districts 8-29, Nova Scotia, Canada, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 2,417,687.
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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 ancestors' 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 ancestors' 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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~12.50%
Ted (Whitten) Whittenkraus
:
23andMe, GEDmatch M811699 [compare]
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~12.50%
Glenn Legge :
23andMe
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~12.50%
~12.50%
Marsha (Ciaramello) Auger :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member marshed214
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~6.25%
Chris Whitten :
23andMe, yourDNAportal CHR61965ed9
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A820770 [compare], Ancestry member ciwhitten
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #330041
+
Living DNA
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~6.25%
~6.25%
Amy (Sousa) Dickens :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member marshed214
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~1.56%
Wilfred Hatch :
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Betsy (Leggee) Byrne :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A367815 [compare], Ancestry member Betsybyrnemecom
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~1.56%
Heidi (Collins) Krannig :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Denise Rhynold :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch XS9247618 [compare], yourDNAportal DEN90c9f5b2, Ancestry member denise_rhynold
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"United States Census, 1920," Database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF9V-W72 : accessed 19 June 2015), Cora E Lyons in household of Edward D Whitten, Fitchburg Ward 1, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States; citing sheet 6B, family 139, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,745.
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Cora is 19 degrees from Marie Curie, 30 degrees from Svante Arrhenius, 16 degrees from George Beadle, 23 degrees from Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, 22 degrees from Lawrence Bragg, 19 degrees from Pearl S. Buck, 17 degrees from Sinclair Lewis, 19 degrees from Guglielmo Marconi, 17 degrees from Albert Michelson, 17 degrees from Gerty Cori, 17 degrees from Roger Sperry and 18 degrees from Chris Ferraiolo on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.