Three Brides for Three Brothers:Information about Anna Frances Cunningham
Anna Frances Cunningham (b. 10 Aug 1855, d. 20 Nov 1925)
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Anna Frances Cunningham (daughter of James E Cunningham and Rosina Colbert)426, 427, 428 was born 10 Aug 1855 in Hampton, Elizabeth City County, Virginia429, and died 20 Nov 1925 in Norfolk, Virginia430, 431.She married James Journeay Cole on 01 Jan 1879 in Norfolk County, Virginia.
Notes for Anna Frances Cunningham:AUTHORCole, Anna Cunningham.
MAIN TITLEThe Jamestown Princess; Pocahontas legends.
EDITIONSouvenir ed. Portrait by M. Louis Smith. Written and published
PUBLISHERNorfolk, Va. [Portsmouth, Va., Whitson & Shepherd] 1907. 062117110523
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Notes made from recorded conversation with my Dad,
Harry A. Fruit, Jr.
June, 2001
He then began to talk about his Aunt Anna, as he called her. Again, I think she was really a great aunt. Her name was Anna Cunningham Cole. Dad said he could not remember ever meeting or knowing Mr. Cole.He seemed unsure about the exact family connection.He said that she looked enough like Virginia Cunningham Graves to be her sister, and that he seemed to remember someone talking about double first cousins marrying double first cousins.
He also said that Anna C. Cole and his grandmother, Virginia Cunningham Graves were always very close.In fact, for some while they both lived in Campostella, in Norfolk, and only abut two blocks apart.
Dad said that Aunt Anna had two children that he could recall.One, Journeay Cole, a son, (Dad has a picture of him), worked on a pilot boat and was lost at sea, he thinks during WWI.
Dad remembers Journeay, though he was still quite young when Journeay died.He seems to recall that he lived down on Bermuda Street in downtown Norfolk.When Journeay died, Aunt Anna gave Dad a model of a sailing ship that had belonged to Journeay.
Aunt Anna also took two young girls to raise.They were not her children, and Dad was not too sure were they came from.For a long time, as a child, he assumed they were Mabel's sisters.
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C. L. Davis, Jr., remembers his Aunt Anna raising two orphan sisters,Lizzie (died 12/28/1911) and Emma (9/16/1864 - 3/26/1946) McKann.
More About Anna Frances Cunningham:
Date born 2: 27 Jan 1855, Hampton, Elizabeth City County, Virginia.432
Burial: Unknown, Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk, Virginia.433
Census 1: 1860, Elizabeth City County, Virginia, age 5.
Census 2: 1880, Washington, Norfolk, Virginia .
Census 3: 1920, Norfolk, Virginia, age 60, widow, head of house.434
Occupation: 1907, Author, wrote The Jamestown Princess; Pocahontas Legends.
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More About Anna Frances Cunningham and James Journeay Cole:
Marriage: 01 Jan 1879, Norfolk County, Virginia.
Children of Anna Frances Cunningham and James Journeay Cole are:
- +Mabel Louise Cole, b. 18 Nov 1879, Norfolk, Virginia, d. 02 Oct 1934, Norfolk, Virginia.
- Clarence A Cole, b. 1881, Norfolk, Virginia, d. 01 Jan 1882, Norfolk, Virginia435.
- James Journeay Cole II, b. 1883, Norfolk, Virginia, d. 15 Jul 1917, Lost at Sea436.
- Eugene Rudolph Cole, b. 1886, Norfolk, Virginia, d. 29 Oct 1887, Norfolk, Virginia437.