My grandmother was Cora A Elkins, born Wise County, VA on May 10, 1894. She had a sister Sarah E Elkins who married Fleix G Fields in Whiteburg, Ky. Sarah and Felix had children: Robert, Leonard (my brother is named after Leonard who went to prison), Arlie (lived in Cincinnati), Ada, Edna, Verna and Flora b 1914 (living? in around Lexington, made jewelry). Flora married a Creech.

Cora A Elkins was supposedly married to a "White" before my grandfather, Walter 'Dock' McIntosh, Lost Creek, Breathitt.
They married February 15, 1912. Her first son was my father Everett, then Eva, Edgar and Edna (lived 4 days).

As my family has told the story, Dock killed Cora. She was bringing his dinner to him at the moonshine still and he took? her for revenuers and shot at her. He either hit her or she was thrown and died. He was charged with murder, case 274-1/6 but the courts continued it until it disppeared. This was during the "Jail Break Murder cases" in Jackson for those who know the history. Anyway he got off.

The 1920 census listed Dock's wife as Nora Ann, Dock's 4th wife and Edgar G McIntosh as being 10 months old (mother is Cora). My mother said Dock had another woman at the same time as Cora and wanted Cora gone. Everett and Edgar was more bronze color with black/brown hair than rest of family. Was Cora part Indian? Some said Cora was born out of wed-lock. Her sister Sarah has same last name and is older, born 1881. The story is tragic. Her kids ended up in orphanages and Eva and Edna died young. Dock died in 1931.

I am looking for any information concerning Cora. A family picture or close relative. Plan to visit Ky Achives to read the court documents. Maybe try the Jackson Library to see if they retained the newspaper articles from then.

My father never talked about it, my Uncled hated the step-mother and was put in Bethany Orphanage after throwing a block of coal at Nora Ann. Solomon Noble was a charcater witness for Dock.

Let me know if this rings a bell with any of the Elkins