Anna Corley

Anna Fulmer Corley
BIRTH
29 Apr 1845
Coweta County, Georgia, USA
DEATH
4 Nov 1897 (aged 52)
Winnsboro, Wood County, Texas, USA
BURIAL
Hopewell Cemetery
Winnsboro, Wood County, Texas, USA
PLOT
9 - 38
MEMORIAL ID
26511647 · View Source
MEMORIAL
PHOTOS 1
FLOWERS 1
Ann Fulmer was born April 29, 1846 in Coweta County, GA, the oldest child of John William Fulmer and Rachel E. Cotton Fulmer. She died November 4, 1897 in Winnsboro, Wood County TX.
In 1850 census, she is 5 years old living in the home of her parents in Coweta County, GA with younger siblings John William Jr. age 3 and Levi T., age 1.
In 1860 census she is 15 years old and still living at home with her family and additional siblings in Coweta Co, GA.
Based on the ages and birthplaces of the Fulmer children, the Fulmers migrated from Coweta County GA to Coosa County, AL between 1963 and 1866. In fact, by the time of the 1870 census, all three of the oldest children have left home and Anna is married to John M. Corley (who is the brother of Martha Ann Corley, wife of John Ashcraft) and her first child, a son named Walter Lee, has been born in Alabama.
It is clear that John and Anna Corley lived for a while after their marriage in 1868 in Alabama. We know that by the 1870 census, Anna and John are married with a one-year-old son and living in Quitman, Wood County TX, but this son had been born in AL. It is therefore likely that the couple lived for a short time after their marriage with one or the other set of parents (probably the Corleys), gave birth to their first child, Walter Lee, in AL April 16, 1869, and then migrated to TX in time to be censused there in 1870. It is likely that the event that precipitated this move was Richard and Mary Corley selling their farm in Coosa County and moving to Arkansas. So both moves probably took place at the same time in the second half of 1869.
John and Anna applied for their marriage license on June 18, 1886 and married in Coosa County on June 20, 1886 with A. G. Raines, O.M.G presiding (Book D of Coosa County Marriages, page 90).
By the 1870 census, Ann’s parents and siblings still at home are living in Coosa County. In the 1870 Census, Anna and John and their son are living in Wood County, TX (Quitman), in this household

Family Members
Parents

John William Fulmer
1825–1903

Rachael E Cotton Fulmer
1829–1899

Spouse

John M. Corley
1838–1897 (m. 1868)

Siblings

John Walter Fulmer
1847–1909

Jacob C. Fulmer
1849–1926

Levi T Fulmer
1849–1909

Nancy Elizabeth Fulmer Newman
1853–1937

William P. Fulmer
1857–1921

Francis Barton Fulmer
1859–1922

Jefferson Davis Fulmer
1862–1930

Edward D. Fulmer
1863–1930

Pinkney L Fulmer Arnold
1866–1908

Cary Cotton Fulmer
1868–1890

Nathan Crawford Fulmer
1871–1957

Children

Carey Lee Corley
1869–1918

Mary Hattie Corley Wheatley
1877–1959

Clem Francis Corley
1881–1936

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