When Cora was not yet 16 she married William Marshall Borchert. They became the parents of two sons, Loyal Edward Borchert and Frederick Leonald Borchert. She and William Borchert divorced on July 27, 1896. Cora then married George Brown on October 31, 1903. After her marriage to George Brown she married Alfred W. Clark around 1908.
On March 13,1917 A.W. Clark had Cora committed to the Nevada Hospital for Mental Diseases. He told family he couldn't get along with her.
Cora was at the hospital for 25 years. She was always in touch with her boys Fred and Loyal and her ex-husband William Marshall Borchert. Her family corresponded with Cora and she sent gifts to her children. The family regularly sent money and clothing for Cora. Her family visited her in 1937 and she seemed fine. William Borchert went to visit her around 1940 and was told she had "vanished". No one in the family was ever notified she had died and the hospital had continue receiving money for her care. Her family later requested a death certificate that said she died in 1943 and was buried at the hospital cemetery. Cora's father and mother, George Almon Wilcox and Ella Hanchett, and her brothers Reuben Wilcox and Clarence Wilcox are all buried at Lone Mountain Cemetery in Carson City. This is where Cora should have been buried and would be there if her family had been told she had died. The hospital never published a death notice in any newspaper, as required, and Cora had no known published obituary to mark her passing.
Today there are no records showing the location of Cora's grave at the hospital cemetery. A ditch construction project on the grounds previously unearthed many graves and a road and fire station were built over another part of the cemetery.
Cora is my cousin. Please contact me if you have any information at all about Cora or her husband A.W. Clark, of Carson City. ([email protected])
On March 13,1917 A.W. Clark had Cora committed to the Nevada Hospital for Mental Diseases. He told family he couldn't get along with her.
Cora was at the hospital for 25 years. She was always in touch with her boys Fred and Loyal and her ex-husband William Marshall Borchert. Her family corresponded with Cora and she sent gifts to her children. The family regularly sent money and clothing for Cora. Her family visited her in 1937 and she seemed fine. William Borchert went to visit her around 1940 and was told she had "vanished". No one in the family was ever notified she had died and the hospital had continue receiving money for her care. Her family later requested a death certificate that said she died in 1943 and was buried at the hospital cemetery. Cora's father and mother, George Almon Wilcox and Ella Hanchett, and her brothers Reuben Wilcox and Clarence Wilcox are all buried at Lone Mountain Cemetery in Carson City. This is where Cora should have been buried and would be there if her family had been told she had died. The hospital never published a death notice in any newspaper, as required, and Cora had no known published obituary to mark her passing.
Today there are no records showing the location of Cora's grave at the hospital cemetery. A ditch construction project on the grounds previously unearthed many graves and a road and fire station were built over another part of the cemetery.
Cora is my cousin. Please contact me if you have any information at all about Cora or her husband A.W. Clark, of Carson City. ([email protected])
When Cora was not yet 16 she married William Marshall Borchert. They became the parents of two sons, Loyal Edward Borchert and Frederick Leonald Borchert. She and William Borchert divorced on July 27, 1896. Cora then married George Brown on October 31, 1903. After her marriage to George Brown she married Alfred W. Clark around 1908.
On March 13,1917 A.W. Clark had Cora committed to the Nevada Hospital for Mental Diseases. He told family he couldn't get along with her.
Cora was at the hospital for 25 years. She was always in touch with her boys Fred and Loyal and her ex-husband William Marshall Borchert. Her family corresponded with Cora and she sent gifts to her children. The family regularly sent money and clothing for Cora. Her family visited her in 1937 and she seemed fine. William Borchert went to visit her around 1940 and was told she had "vanished". No one in the family was ever notified she had died and the hospital had continue receiving money for her care. Her family later requested a death certificate that said she died in 1943 and was buried at the hospital cemetery. Cora's father and mother, George Almon Wilcox and Ella Hanchett, and her brothers Reuben Wilcox and Clarence Wilcox are all buried at Lone Mountain Cemetery in Carson City. This is where Cora should have been buried and would be there if her family had been told she had died. The hospital never published a death notice in any newspaper, as required, and Cora had no known published obituary to mark her passing.
Today there are no records showing the location of Cora's grave at the hospital cemetery. A ditch construction project on the grounds previously unearthed many graves and a road and fire station were built over another part of the cemetery.
Cora is my cousin. Please contact me if you have any information at all about Cora or her husband A.W. Clark, of Carson City. ([email protected])
On March 13,1917 A.W. Clark had Cora committed to the Nevada Hospital for Mental Diseases. He told family he couldn't get along with her.
Cora was at the hospital for 25 years. She was always in touch with her boys Fred and Loyal and her ex-husband William Marshall Borchert. Her family corresponded with Cora and she sent gifts to her children. The family regularly sent money and clothing for Cora. Her family visited her in 1937 and she seemed fine. William Borchert went to visit her around 1940 and was told she had "vanished". No one in the family was ever notified she had died and the hospital had continue receiving money for her care. Her family later requested a death certificate that said she died in 1943 and was buried at the hospital cemetery. Cora's father and mother, George Almon Wilcox and Ella Hanchett, and her brothers Reuben Wilcox and Clarence Wilcox are all buried at Lone Mountain Cemetery in Carson City. This is where Cora should have been buried and would be there if her family had been told she had died. The hospital never published a death notice in any newspaper, as required, and Cora had no known published obituary to mark her passing.
Today there are no records showing the location of Cora's grave at the hospital cemetery. A ditch construction project on the grounds previously unearthed many graves and a road and fire station were built over another part of the cemetery.
Cora is my cousin. Please contact me if you have any information at all about Cora or her husband A.W. Clark, of Carson City. ([email protected])
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