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Title: Lulu Cornell
Dates: 1936-1937
Collection Number: 00610
Quantity: 26 items
Abstract: Copies of images of people and buildings in and around Medora (ND).
Provenance: The State Historical Society acquired this collection from Gary Leppert.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
From the Billings County Pioneer, Thursday April 25, 1957
Last rites were solemnized this Monday, April 22, 1957, for Mrs. Charles Cornell of Medora, at the Congregational Christian church in Medora. Eugene F. Irish, pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist church in Beach, officiated at the services. Mrs. Cornell, 73, succumbed of the effects of cancer on Wednesday April 17, at 6 p.m. at her daughter’s home in Medora.
Pallbearers included Milford Vanvig, Sidney Connell, Charles McCutchan, John Reilly, Joe Hild, and Gerald Nunn. Interment followed in the Medora City cemetery.
Honorary pallbearers were: Ben Bird, Louis Pelissier, Lars Vanvig, Chi Otto, Bernard Wilson, Chi Osterhout, Byron Cornell, and Chris Rasmussen.
Survivors are her husband and her children, Charles Cornell, Jr. of Sentinel Butte, Ted Cornell of Medora, William (Bill) Cornell of Mandan, Donald Cornell, Medora, and two daughters, Mrs. Mary Jones of Santa Ana, Calif., and Mrs. Martha Porter of Medora, and 16 grandchildren. One brother also survives, Hugh Anderson, at Orlando, Fla., and one sister, Mrs. June Vieland, Beach, and a step-sister, Mrs. Edith Hanson of Spokane, Wash.
Mrs. Cornell is the former Lulu Marion Anderson, the daughter of John and Frances Clara Anderson, and was born Sept. 11, 1884, at Princetown, Minn. She attended the Harmon rural school, south of Medora, and was married to Charles Cornell at Dickinson on Jan. 14, 1907.
She was a continuous resident of the state of N. D. for 61 years and had resided in Medora with her daughter, Mrs. Porter, for the eight months preceding her death. She was ill for just eight months, before succumbing of cancer on April 17, 1957.
Mrs. Cornell and her husband are pioneers of the Medora ranching community, having lived most of their lives on their homestead a few miles south of Medora. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary this past January.
Mrs. Cornell’s passing is deeply mourned by many loyal friends and devoted relatives who remember her many kindnesses.
PHOTOGRAPHS INVENTORY
00610-01 Martin Hellickson
00610-02 Howard Eaton
00610-03 Group of cowboys includes Glen Hollenbeck and Kostelekie
00610-04 Children and teacher outside schoolhouse. One of the children is Charlie Cornell
00610-05 Petrified man in a coffin
00610-06 James William Follis and group with tent and horses
00610-07 George Gardener bulldogging steer, Medora (ND) Photo: Doubleday-Myers
00610-08 Burt Harmon bronc busting, Medora (ND). Photo: Doubleday-Myers
00610-09 Logging camp
00610-10 Logging camp
00610-11 Von Hoffman House and St. Mary’s Church, Medora (ND)
00610-12 Log houses
00610-13 Antelope
00610-14 Man on horseback
00610-15 Pinkey and the Cow that Jumped Over the Moon, Medora (ND). Photo: Doubleday-Myers
00610-16 Hook ‘em Cow, Frontier Days, Medora (ND) Photo: Doubleday-Myers
00610-17 Bulldogging steer, Medora (ND) Photo: Doubleday-Myers
00610-18 Gardener Riding a Bucking Devil. Photo: Doubleday-Myers
00610-19 Group on horseback, Medora (ND)
00610-20 Man working horse in corral
00610-21 Men on horseback
00610-22 Horses in corral
00610-23 Jim Massey bulldogging steer, time 20 secs., Medora (ND) Photo: Doubleday-Myers
00610-24 Frontier Days, Medora (ND) Photo: Doubleday-Myers
00610-25 Presbyterian Church, Belfield (ND)
00610-26 Steamboat Scarab and another at wharf
00610-27 Ferry Deapolis
00610-28 Two boats tied at wharf
00610-29 Frayne, Port of Pembina at Deapolis. Photo: Frank Fiske 1916
00610-30 Boat at river bank
00610-31 Getting fresh horses for the afternoon’s work
00610-32 – 33 Men at chuckwagon
00610-34 House at Medora (ND)
00610-35 Houses
00610-36 Flood waters surrounding log building and bridge
00610-37 House, Medora (ND)
00610-38 Store interior
00610-40 Bozeman (MT)
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