Cora Alice Parker and her mother Emma Watson (c1858 - 9 Dec 1889)
The search for our ancestors is never over! One discovery always leads to another and another. The less I know about an ancestor the more I want to know. My great grandmother Cora Alice Parker Rivers died in 1960. I was only two at the time and have no memory of her. I am from a small town in Louisiana and most of the people there can be traced back several hundred years in the same community. Cora was different, she was from Texas and she was a Parker! That fueled my curiosity! Prior to my research on this family, I had seen a copy of the death certificate for grandma Cora and it stated her parents were Henry Clay Parker and Emma Watson. As I begun my research on my great grandmother's family, I contacted her son, Clarence Rivers. Uncle Clarence was nearing 90 at the time and he was the only one of Cora's four children still living. He was thrilled to talk about his youth and what little he knew about his mother's family. Interviewing your older family members is imperat...