Cora, daughter of Alonzo Stewart and Abbie McNeil Stewart, was born in Bates County Missouri. She married John Elbert Brock September 26, 1896, in Stafford County, Kansas. They had seven children: John Lee, Earl Stewart, Claude Ray, Willie Creel, Gilbert, Joyce Evander, and Stewart Ivan Brock.
Cora Stewart Brock:
The following was written in Septmeber 1955 by Josphine Locke, daughter of Pearl Groves Locke, half sister to Cora.
Cora Stewart was born Sept. 27, 1875, in Bates County, Missouri, to Alonzo E. Stewart and Abby Martha McNeil.
At the age of three, they came to Stafford County, Kansas, two miles south and one mile west of Stafford. At that time, Stafford's main street was just as it is today but all the houses were sod, except Mrs. Mary Crawford had a frame house with a hat shop in the bottom floor and sleeping rooms upstairs; a sod house was built on the site for living and cooking quarters.
They came to Stafford in December and went back to Missouri the next fall to get Mr. Stewart's two girls, Dora and Mattie. Abbie's' and Alonzo's boy died shortly before they started when he was only a few weeks old. Abbie's brother, Charlie, died with typhoid fever about the same time and Charlie and the baby are both buried in the same grave in the the Stafford Cemetery. (Note: Charlie is actually buried beside baby James Stewart in Stafford Cemetery.)
They drove to Missouri in a covered wagon, and Alonzo took sick along the way with typhoid fever. He died soon after arriving there, also Johnnie, the two year old boy died. Cora's mother took sick then with the typhoid fever and was very sick four more weeks and nearly died. Cora's father and two brother all died within six weeks. Her mother went back to Kansas the next spring with Reca and Cora. She taught school the next fall and took Reca, six years old and Cora, four years old, with her, and they walked a mile to school. They had no fuel at school but corn stalks so her mother gathered enough stalks the rest of the day.
The next fall, when Cora was five, they had to walk three miles to school, which was the sod house.
One morning when they got to school, the school house had caved in during a bad rain storm the night before. The school term consisted of two months in the fall and three in the spring. Her mother got twelve and a half dollars a month. She needed the money so badly after the school caved in that she asked the board to let her finish the term in her one room sod house, which they did.
The next spring, her mother taught over by Zenith were she married John Groves. She had known him in Missouri before moving to Kansas They moved northeast of Stafford and they moved there after their first two girls, Jennie and Pearl, were born. Roy, Ross, Lou, and Elbie were all born there and John Groves died May 29, 1905.
Cora first went to the Ardrey school and started to the Zenor school when twelve. Her younger brothers and sisters all went to school there through the grades.
At 18 years of age, she attended Normal, at St. John and got a certificate to teach. She was unable to get a school so went to Stafford and stayed with Grandma Brock, and went to high school one year. She taught three terms of school-one term north of Stafford about twenty miles north of the salt marsh and two terms about seven miles north and east of Stafford at District 66. It was three miles south of her home and she drove a horse and buggy to school, and took Ross, six, Lou, four, when they started school, with her.
She married John Brock in 1897. They built them a house six miles north of Stafford, where they lived when their first two boys, Johnnie and Earl were born. They lived there eight years and then built them another house on another place they had bought eight miles north and east of Stafford, just a mile and a half west from the Bethel Church. Their other five boys were born there. Earl died of burns received just before moving to the new home, when he was three years old. (Alan's note: these guys are my grandpa's brothers. You can still see the homestead site where they built built their house although it is no longer there but the trees they planted around it are. (I think the only trees in Kansas. Ha!)
Besides raising their six boys, they also raised two of John's brother, Ed and Bryan, after their parents died. Their little sister, Myrtle, spent part of the time there, as did Willie, an older sister. Freda Riley stayed there and went to school after her mother died. You can imagine how busy she was, getting the hired men fed and off to work, besides feeding and getting the children off to school.
She was a busy woman keeping enough food cooked to feed them all, besides fixing lunches for the children in school, baking all her own bread, churning, sewing, washing, and ironing. She also took care of the communion for church and never missed a service unless sick.
Many good times were had in her big living room around the old piano. Some of the songs they sang were "My Little Girl," "There's a Long, Long Trail," and "It's a Long Way to Tipperary."
Joyce and Stewart were several years younger than the other boys so kept them from getting lonesome after the other boys were gone. John died in 1931 when Joyce was 14 and Stewart was 11 years old.
Cora's mother lived in the old home till she died August 11, 1917, when she and Elbie were the only ones left at home.
Cora and Joyce and Stewart moved into the old Lee home one winter while Grandma Lee was in Kansas City with Robert and family so the boys could go to high school. They moved back to the farm the next spring and the boys drove to high school after that.
After Joyce was married and Stewart was in college in Topeka, Cora stayed with Grandma Fortner in Stafford one winter. Then she stayed three winters with Reca in Lawrence and went back to the farm in summer.
She lived in her big house four years, then she let Stewart and wife have her big house, and she moved into the little house in the rear. Two years ago she moved into a three room apartment in Stafford.
As everyone who has raised a family knows, there are always a lot of amusing things happen. One she recalls very vividly is when Bob Lee and Lou Groves were married at their house 42 years ago. In those days, the groom always had to treats for the chivari crowd, so he had candy hidden in a closet. Creel and Josephine Locke found the candy and helped themselves to it.
Cora Stewart Brock:
The following was written in Septmeber 1955 by Josphine Locke, daughter of Pearl Groves Locke, half sister to Cora.
Cora Stewart was born Sept. 27, 1875, in Bates County, Missouri, to Alonzo E. Stewart and Abby Martha McNeil.
At the age of three, they came to Stafford County, Kansas, two miles south and one mile west of Stafford. At that time, Stafford's main street was just as it is today but all the houses were sod, except Mrs. Mary Crawford had a frame house with a hat shop in the bottom floor and sleeping rooms upstairs; a sod house was built on the site for living and cooking quarters.
They came to Stafford in December and went back to Missouri the next fall to get Mr. Stewart's two girls, Dora and Mattie. Abbie's' and Alonzo's boy died shortly before they started when he was only a few weeks old. Abbie's brother, Charlie, died with typhoid fever about the same time and Charlie and the baby are both buried in the same grave in the the Stafford Cemetery. (Note: Charlie is actually buried beside baby James Stewart in Stafford Cemetery.)
They drove to Missouri in a covered wagon, and Alonzo took sick along the way with typhoid fever. He died soon after arriving there, also Johnnie, the two year old boy died. Cora's mother took sick then with the typhoid fever and was very sick four more weeks and nearly died. Cora's father and two brother all died within six weeks. Her mother went back to Kansas the next spring with Reca and Cora. She taught school the next fall and took Reca, six years old and Cora, four years old, with her, and they walked a mile to school. They had no fuel at school but corn stalks so her mother gathered enough stalks the rest of the day.
The next fall, when Cora was five, they had to walk three miles to school, which was the sod house.
One morning when they got to school, the school house had caved in during a bad rain storm the night before. The school term consisted of two months in the fall and three in the spring. Her mother got twelve and a half dollars a month. She needed the money so badly after the school caved in that she asked the board to let her finish the term in her one room sod house, which they did.
The next spring, her mother taught over by Zenith were she married John Groves. She had known him in Missouri before moving to Kansas They moved northeast of Stafford and they moved there after their first two girls, Jennie and Pearl, were born. Roy, Ross, Lou, and Elbie were all born there and John Groves died May 29, 1905.
Cora first went to the Ardrey school and started to the Zenor school when twelve. Her younger brothers and sisters all went to school there through the grades.
At 18 years of age, she attended Normal, at St. John and got a certificate to teach. She was unable to get a school so went to Stafford and stayed with Grandma Brock, and went to high school one year. She taught three terms of school-one term north of Stafford about twenty miles north of the salt marsh and two terms about seven miles north and east of Stafford at District 66. It was three miles south of her home and she drove a horse and buggy to school, and took Ross, six, Lou, four, when they started school, with her.
She married John Brock in 1897. They built them a house six miles north of Stafford, where they lived when their first two boys, Johnnie and Earl were born. They lived there eight years and then built them another house on another place they had bought eight miles north and east of Stafford, just a mile and a half west from the Bethel Church. Their other five boys were born there. Earl died of burns received just before moving to the new home, when he was three years old. (Alan's note: these guys are my grandpa's brothers. You can still see the homestead site where they built built their house although it is no longer there but the trees they planted around it are. (I think the only trees in Kansas. Ha!)
Besides raising their six boys, they also raised two of John's brother, Ed and Bryan, after their parents died. Their little sister, Myrtle, spent part of the time there, as did Willie, an older sister. Freda Riley stayed there and went to school after her mother died. You can imagine how busy she was, getting the hired men fed and off to work, besides feeding and getting the children off to school.
She was a busy woman keeping enough food cooked to feed them all, besides fixing lunches for the children in school, baking all her own bread, churning, sewing, washing, and ironing. She also took care of the communion for church and never missed a service unless sick.
Many good times were had in her big living room around the old piano. Some of the songs they sang were "My Little Girl," "There's a Long, Long Trail," and "It's a Long Way to Tipperary."
Joyce and Stewart were several years younger than the other boys so kept them from getting lonesome after the other boys were gone. John died in 1931 when Joyce was 14 and Stewart was 11 years old.
Cora's mother lived in the old home till she died August 11, 1917, when she and Elbie were the only ones left at home.
Cora and Joyce and Stewart moved into the old Lee home one winter while Grandma Lee was in Kansas City with Robert and family so the boys could go to high school. They moved back to the farm the next spring and the boys drove to high school after that.
After Joyce was married and Stewart was in college in Topeka, Cora stayed with Grandma Fortner in Stafford one winter. Then she stayed three winters with Reca in Lawrence and went back to the farm in summer.
She lived in her big house four years, then she let Stewart and wife have her big house, and she moved into the little house in the rear. Two years ago she moved into a three room apartment in Stafford.
As everyone who has raised a family knows, there are always a lot of amusing things happen. One she recalls very vividly is when Bob Lee and Lou Groves were married at their house 42 years ago. In those days, the groom always had to treats for the chivari crowd, so he had candy hidden in a closet. Creel and Josephine Locke found the candy and helped themselves to it.
Cora, daughter of Alonzo Stewart and Abbie McNeil Stewart, was born in Bates County Missouri. She married John Elbert Brock September 26, 1896, in Stafford County, Kansas. They had seven children: John Lee, Earl Stewart, Claude Ray, Willie Creel, Gilbert, Joyce Evander, and Stewart Ivan Brock.
Cora Stewart Brock:
The following was written in Septmeber 1955 by Josphine Locke, daughter of Pearl Groves Locke, half sister to Cora.
Cora Stewart was born Sept. 27, 1875, in Bates County, Missouri, to Alonzo E. Stewart and Abby Martha McNeil.
At the age of three, they came to Stafford County, Kansas, two miles south and one mile west of Stafford. At that time, Stafford's main street was just as it is today but all the houses were sod, except Mrs. Mary Crawford had a frame house with a hat shop in the bottom floor and sleeping rooms upstairs; a sod house was built on the site for living and cooking quarters.
They came to Stafford in December and went back to Missouri the next fall to get Mr. Stewart's two girls, Dora and Mattie. Abbie's' and Alonzo's boy died shortly before they started when he was only a few weeks old. Abbie's brother, Charlie, died with typhoid fever about the same time and Charlie and the baby are both buried in the same grave in the the Stafford Cemetery. (Note: Charlie is actually buried beside baby James Stewart in Stafford Cemetery.)
They drove to Missouri in a covered wagon, and Alonzo took sick along the way with typhoid fever. He died soon after arriving there, also Johnnie, the two year old boy died. Cora's mother took sick then with the typhoid fever and was very sick four more weeks and nearly died. Cora's father and two brother all died within six weeks. Her mother went back to Kansas the next spring with Reca and Cora. She taught school the next fall and took Reca, six years old and Cora, four years old, with her, and they walked a mile to school. They had no fuel at school but corn stalks so her mother gathered enough stalks the rest of the day.
The next fall, when Cora was five, they had to walk three miles to school, which was the sod house.
One morning when they got to school, the school house had caved in during a bad rain storm the night before. The school term consisted of two months in the fall and three in the spring. Her mother got twelve and a half dollars a month. She needed the money so badly after the school caved in that she asked the board to let her finish the term in her one room sod house, which they did.
The next spring, her mother taught over by Zenith were she married John Groves. She had known him in Missouri before moving to Kansas They moved northeast of Stafford and they moved there after their first two girls, Jennie and Pearl, were born. Roy, Ross, Lou, and Elbie were all born there and John Groves died May 29, 1905.
Cora first went to the Ardrey school and started to the Zenor school when twelve. Her younger brothers and sisters all went to school there through the grades.
At 18 years of age, she attended Normal, at St. John and got a certificate to teach. She was unable to get a school so went to Stafford and stayed with Grandma Brock, and went to high school one year. She taught three terms of school-one term north of Stafford about twenty miles north of the salt marsh and two terms about seven miles north and east of Stafford at District 66. It was three miles south of her home and she drove a horse and buggy to school, and took Ross, six, Lou, four, when they started school, with her.
She married John Brock in 1897. They built them a house six miles north of Stafford, where they lived when their first two boys, Johnnie and Earl were born. They lived there eight years and then built them another house on another place they had bought eight miles north and east of Stafford, just a mile and a half west from the Bethel Church. Their other five boys were born there. Earl died of burns received just before moving to the new home, when he was three years old. (Alan's note: these guys are my grandpa's brothers. You can still see the homestead site where they built built their house although it is no longer there but the trees they planted around it are. (I think the only trees in Kansas. Ha!)
Besides raising their six boys, they also raised two of John's brother, Ed and Bryan, after their parents died. Their little sister, Myrtle, spent part of the time there, as did Willie, an older sister. Freda Riley stayed there and went to school after her mother died. You can imagine how busy she was, getting the hired men fed and off to work, besides feeding and getting the children off to school.
She was a busy woman keeping enough food cooked to feed them all, besides fixing lunches for the children in school, baking all her own bread, churning, sewing, washing, and ironing. She also took care of the communion for church and never missed a service unless sick.
Many good times were had in her big living room around the old piano. Some of the songs they sang were "My Little Girl," "There's a Long, Long Trail," and "It's a Long Way to Tipperary."
Joyce and Stewart were several years younger than the other boys so kept them from getting lonesome after the other boys were gone. John died in 1931 when Joyce was 14 and Stewart was 11 years old.
Cora's mother lived in the old home till she died August 11, 1917, when she and Elbie were the only ones left at home.
Cora and Joyce and Stewart moved into the old Lee home one winter while Grandma Lee was in Kansas City with Robert and family so the boys could go to high school. They moved back to the farm the next spring and the boys drove to high school after that.
After Joyce was married and Stewart was in college in Topeka, Cora stayed with Grandma Fortner in Stafford one winter. Then she stayed three winters with Reca in Lawrence and went back to the farm in summer.
She lived in her big house four years, then she let Stewart and wife have her big house, and she moved into the little house in the rear. Two years ago she moved into a three room apartment in Stafford.
As everyone who has raised a family knows, there are always a lot of amusing things happen. One she recalls very vividly is when Bob Lee and Lou Groves were married at their house 42 years ago. In those days, the groom always had to treats for the chivari crowd, so he had candy hidden in a closet. Creel and Josephine Locke found the candy and helped themselves to it.
Cora Stewart Brock:
The following was written in Septmeber 1955 by Josphine Locke, daughter of Pearl Groves Locke, half sister to Cora.
Cora Stewart was born Sept. 27, 1875, in Bates County, Missouri, to Alonzo E. Stewart and Abby Martha McNeil.
At the age of three, they came to Stafford County, Kansas, two miles south and one mile west of Stafford. At that time, Stafford's main street was just as it is today but all the houses were sod, except Mrs. Mary Crawford had a frame house with a hat shop in the bottom floor and sleeping rooms upstairs; a sod house was built on the site for living and cooking quarters.
They came to Stafford in December and went back to Missouri the next fall to get Mr. Stewart's two girls, Dora and Mattie. Abbie's' and Alonzo's boy died shortly before they started when he was only a few weeks old. Abbie's brother, Charlie, died with typhoid fever about the same time and Charlie and the baby are both buried in the same grave in the the Stafford Cemetery. (Note: Charlie is actually buried beside baby James Stewart in Stafford Cemetery.)
They drove to Missouri in a covered wagon, and Alonzo took sick along the way with typhoid fever. He died soon after arriving there, also Johnnie, the two year old boy died. Cora's mother took sick then with the typhoid fever and was very sick four more weeks and nearly died. Cora's father and two brother all died within six weeks. Her mother went back to Kansas the next spring with Reca and Cora. She taught school the next fall and took Reca, six years old and Cora, four years old, with her, and they walked a mile to school. They had no fuel at school but corn stalks so her mother gathered enough stalks the rest of the day.
The next fall, when Cora was five, they had to walk three miles to school, which was the sod house.
One morning when they got to school, the school house had caved in during a bad rain storm the night before. The school term consisted of two months in the fall and three in the spring. Her mother got twelve and a half dollars a month. She needed the money so badly after the school caved in that she asked the board to let her finish the term in her one room sod house, which they did.
The next spring, her mother taught over by Zenith were she married John Groves. She had known him in Missouri before moving to Kansas They moved northeast of Stafford and they moved there after their first two girls, Jennie and Pearl, were born. Roy, Ross, Lou, and Elbie were all born there and John Groves died May 29, 1905.
Cora first went to the Ardrey school and started to the Zenor school when twelve. Her younger brothers and sisters all went to school there through the grades.
At 18 years of age, she attended Normal, at St. John and got a certificate to teach. She was unable to get a school so went to Stafford and stayed with Grandma Brock, and went to high school one year. She taught three terms of school-one term north of Stafford about twenty miles north of the salt marsh and two terms about seven miles north and east of Stafford at District 66. It was three miles south of her home and she drove a horse and buggy to school, and took Ross, six, Lou, four, when they started school, with her.
She married John Brock in 1897. They built them a house six miles north of Stafford, where they lived when their first two boys, Johnnie and Earl were born. They lived there eight years and then built them another house on another place they had bought eight miles north and east of Stafford, just a mile and a half west from the Bethel Church. Their other five boys were born there. Earl died of burns received just before moving to the new home, when he was three years old. (Alan's note: these guys are my grandpa's brothers. You can still see the homestead site where they built built their house although it is no longer there but the trees they planted around it are. (I think the only trees in Kansas. Ha!)
Besides raising their six boys, they also raised two of John's brother, Ed and Bryan, after their parents died. Their little sister, Myrtle, spent part of the time there, as did Willie, an older sister. Freda Riley stayed there and went to school after her mother died. You can imagine how busy she was, getting the hired men fed and off to work, besides feeding and getting the children off to school.
She was a busy woman keeping enough food cooked to feed them all, besides fixing lunches for the children in school, baking all her own bread, churning, sewing, washing, and ironing. She also took care of the communion for church and never missed a service unless sick.
Many good times were had in her big living room around the old piano. Some of the songs they sang were "My Little Girl," "There's a Long, Long Trail," and "It's a Long Way to Tipperary."
Joyce and Stewart were several years younger than the other boys so kept them from getting lonesome after the other boys were gone. John died in 1931 when Joyce was 14 and Stewart was 11 years old.
Cora's mother lived in the old home till she died August 11, 1917, when she and Elbie were the only ones left at home.
Cora and Joyce and Stewart moved into the old Lee home one winter while Grandma Lee was in Kansas City with Robert and family so the boys could go to high school. They moved back to the farm the next spring and the boys drove to high school after that.
After Joyce was married and Stewart was in college in Topeka, Cora stayed with Grandma Fortner in Stafford one winter. Then she stayed three winters with Reca in Lawrence and went back to the farm in summer.
She lived in her big house four years, then she let Stewart and wife have her big house, and she moved into the little house in the rear. Two years ago she moved into a three room apartment in Stafford.
As everyone who has raised a family knows, there are always a lot of amusing things happen. One she recalls very vividly is when Bob Lee and Lou Groves were married at their house 42 years ago. In those days, the groom always had to treats for the chivari crowd, so he had candy hidden in a closet. Creel and Josephine Locke found the candy and helped themselves to it.
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