♀Cora Augusta Delahunt

Cora Augusta Delahunt (23 December 1883 – 15 January 1975) was a Louisiana-born woman who married at Marshall, Texas, in 1908, and whose husband became a grocer and then the owner of a feed store there; every later record of her places her in Marshall. She was a daughter of Augustin Delahunt (1845–1915) and his first wife, Mary Christoffel (1850–1924), and so a half-sister of Jeffrey Delahorne (1899–1929), the father of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014).

Early life

Delahunt was born on 23 December 1883 at Marksville, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, one of the youngest of the eight children her parents had between 1867 and 1886. A family history posted online by a descendant of the first marriage states that about 1894, when Cora was ten, her father left his wife and children and went to St. Martin Parish, where he married again. At the census of 1900 she was sixteen, single and living with her mother and siblings in Police Jury Ward 8 of Avoyelles Parish. The census entered her mother as a widow, although Augustin Delahunt was living and did not die until 1915.

Marshall, Texas

Cora’s mother and several of her children later settled at Marshall, in Harrison County, Texas, where her mother was living by 1910. On 18 March 1908 Cora married Walter Louis Roe (1883–1952), a Texan of her own age, in Harrison County. The family history adds that her father visited the family at Marshall while on leave from the Louisiana Confederate Soldiers’ Home in New Orleans, where he lived from 1903.

The couple had three children, born between 1909 and about 1916: Walter Lester Roe (1909–1986), Janelle Roe (1911–2002) and Jack Terry Roe (1916–1974). In January 1920 Walter Roe was a retail grocery merchant in Marshall, and a nephew from Louisiana who worked as a grocery salesman lived with the family. By 1930 the Roes owned a house on Price Street valued at $7,000, and Walter ran his own store. The family was in the same house on North Price Street in 1935 and in 1940, when Walter owned and ran a feed store and their younger son, Jack, worked as an operator at the feed mill.

Later life

Walter Roe died in 1952, and Cora lived on in Marshall as a widow for more than twenty years. Her son Jack died in July 1974. She died at Marshall on 15 January 1975, at the age of ninety-one; a Find a Grave index places her burial there.

Notes

An index of obituaries dated the marriage to March 1907; the Harrison County marriage record gives 18 March 1908. In the census of 1920 her daughter Janelle was entered under a first name beginning “Cora”, her mother’s name.