General Notes:

Records of Cora were found in census, marriage and death records.

Family lore is Cora and William's first born were twin sons. Date not known but caculated 1896, they were born alive. They lived only a short time and William buried them under an apple tree on the property on Dixie Hwy. No legal record of this.

OBITUARY

Mrs. Cora Pernia
Of Monroe Dies
In Daughter's Home

Mrs Cora Pernia, 77 of 806 E. Fourth St., died Sunday in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Delbert Wood of Erie. She had been ill for two years and seriously ill for the last two months. She was with her daughter for the last month.

Born Jan. 22, 1877, in LaSalle Township, she was the daughter of Daniel and Margaret Drouillard Leonard. She was married to William Pernia in 1895 in St. Joseph Catholic Church at Erie. The Rev. Emil Wolfstyne performed the ceremony. Mr. Pernia died Feb. 13, 1936. Two children died in infancy.

She is survived by five sons, William of Monroe, Arthur of Toledo, Raymond of LaSalle, Nicholas of Livonia and Donald of Dayton; four daughters, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Clarence Segur of Toledo, Mrs. Wilson Timmons of Detorit and Mrs. Ethel Poupard of Monroe; three brothers, George and Clifford Leonard of Toledo and Nicholas of Abilene, Tex; 28 grandchildren, and nine great grandchildren.

Services will be at 9 a.m. Thursday in Allore & Holcomb funeral home at 9:30 in St. Joseph Catholic Church, Monroe. Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery Ida. Rosary will be recited at 8 each night in the funeral home.