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Cora Hester Fields Kirby

25 Oct 1870 – 30 Sep 1945

Birth	25 Oct 1870
Death	30 Sep 1945
Cemetery	Pleasant Hill Cemetery Pleasant Hill , Curry County , New Mexico , USA
Added by	Sheryl Abdill on 08 Jun 2011
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57146733

Bio

Cora Hester Fields was born October 25, 1870 to Jackson B. & Permelia Ann (Wylie) Fields, she had just turned one when her mother passed away. Cora married Samuel Monroe Kirby on Dec 30, 1888. Sam & Cora arrived by train in Texico, New Mexico in 1906 from the Indian Territory of Oklahoma, to file a claim on land in the Pleasant Hill Community. They farmed, had an orchard and the only grain mill in the area. Cora moved to Clovis following the death of her husband. She was preceded in death by her husband and three sons in infancy; Eldridge, Oscar E, and Edgar A. She is survived by five sones and their wives Clifford Elbridge and Mae, Jesse Lee and Zula, Ottas Cummins and Lottie, Clarence Monroe and Louise, and Haskell Emery & Floy.

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Family

Parents

• Jackson B. Fields 1842–1881
• Permelia R. "Polly Ann" Wylie Fields 1844–1871

Spouse

• Samuel Monroe Kirby 1864–1939 FaG

Children

• Clifford Elbridge "Shorty" Kirby 1893–1966 FaG
• Jesse Lee Kirby 1895–1952 FaG
• Ottas Cummings Kirby 1901–1947 FaG
• Clarence Monroe Kirby 1903–1969 FaG
• Haskell Emery Kirby 1909–1979 FaG

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