Dora E (Cockey) Buffington (1887 - 1976)

Born 5 Apr 1887 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Ancestors

Died 22 Oct 1976 at age 89 in Owings Mills, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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Biography

Dora was born in 1887. She was the oldest child of Charles Cockey and Mary Baublitz.

Cockey was a prominent and common name in the Baltimore area, as evidenced by the town of Cockeysville in Baltimore County. But this branch, with Charles Vincent, Mary Louisa and children, lived a hard life. For instance, in 1900, Charles and his two oldest children - Dora (12 yrs) and Sadie (10 yrs) worked in a cotton mill.

Dora married Edward T. Buffington in October of 1905 (license issued 24 Oct in Towson, MD), and they had two children before the 1910 census. Yet in 1910, she was enumerated as family #61 on her own Buffington family's Druid Ave census sheet, while she, not her husband or children, was also enumerated on her parents' - family #52 - Druid Ave census sheet as Dora Cockey (but she is listed as married with two children.).***a census anomaly***

Dora and Edward had nine children - Evelyn, Leroy, Edna, Kenneth, Mary, Marion, Edward, Dora, and Hazel.

She passed away in 1976.

Sources

• Twelfth Census of the United States. "Cockey, Dora E." Line 34. Year: 1900; Census Place: Baltimore Ward 16, Baltimore City (Independent City), Maryland; Roll: 615; Page: 4; Enumeration District: 0212.

• Thirteenth Census of the United States. "Buffington, Dora." Line 87. Year: 1910; Census Place: Baltimore Ward 13, Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland; Roll: T624_557; Page: 8b; Enumeration District: 0214; FHL microfilm: 1374570.

• Thirteenth Census of the United States. "Cockey, Dora." Line 30. Year: 1910; Census Place: Baltimore Ward 13, Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland; Roll: T624_557; Page: 9a; Enumeration District: 0214; FHL microfilm: 1374570

• Fourteenth Census of the United States. "Buffington, Dora E." Line 69. Year: 1920; Census Place: Baltimore Ward 13, Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland; Roll: T625_659; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 220.

• Fifteenth Census of the United States. "Buffington, Dora." Line 71. Year: 1930; Census Place: Baltimore, Maryland; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 0201; FHL microfilm: 2340592

• "Marriage Licenses Issued: Buffington - Cockey." The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Maryland. Wed., Oct 25, 1905. Page 9, col 1.

• "Death Notices: Buffington." The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Maryland. Mon., Oct. 25, 1976. Page 29, col 4.