Cora Mae (White) Harris (1869 - 1935)

Born 17 Mar 1869 in Elbert County, Georgia, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Lundy Howard Harris — married 8 Feb 1887 in Elbert, Georgia, United States

Died 7 Feb 1935 at age 65 in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States

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Biography

Cora (White) Harris is Notable.

Cora was an Appalachian American writer and journalist. WWI Correspondent

Corra Mae Harris (March 17, 1869 – February 7, 1935), was an American writer and journalist. She was one of the first women war correspondents to go abroad in World War I.

Corra was born in 1869. She passed away in 1935 while in Emory Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia recovering from a heart attack.^[1][2] Daughter of Tinsley Rucker and Mary Elizabeth Matthews. Married to Lundy Howard Harris.

Harris is widely known for her novels displaying life in Southern Appalachia, particularly A Circuit Rider's Wife and I'd Climb the Highest Mountain.

She was also famous for her reputation for reactionary conservatism that lasted throughout her life and became part of her contradictory legacy. ^[3][4]

This reputation provided an opportunity for her first nationally published piece in 1899. After the lynching of Thomas Wilkes, alias Sam Hose, near Newnan, Georgia, William Hayes Ward, editor-in-chief at the Independent, published an editorial denouncing the act. Harris wrote and the Independent published "A Southern Woman's View," a reply upholding the southern practice of lynching with reasoning anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Ida B. Wells) called "threadbare", which was to protect innocent white women from malevolent black men.

Editors at the Independent asked Harris for more, which launched her writing career. Afterward, she wrote several non-fiction essays on southern identity that furthered conventional images of southerners and Appalachians during the first decade of the century.

She published over 200 articles and short stories, and well over a thousand book reviews. She was one of the first women war correspondents to go abroad in World War I. ^[5]

In the 1870 census Cora (age 1) was in Elbert, Georgia, United States.^[6]

Corrie married Lundy H. Harris on 8 February 1887 in Elbert, Georgia, United States.^[7]

Corrie married Lundy H Harris on 8 February 1887 in Elbert, Georgia, United States.^[8]

Corra applied for a passport in 1914 in New York, United States.^[9]

Corra died on 9 February 1935 and was buried in Rydal, Bartow, Georgia, United States.^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ "Mrs. Corra Harris, Writer, Dead at 65," The New York Times, February 10, 1935.
2. ↑ Obituary for Corra Mae Harris, The Atlanta Constitution. Atlanta, Georgia. 11 Feb 1935, Mon • Page 7
3. ↑ Badura, Catherine O. (2000). "Reluctant Suffragist/Unwitting Feminist: The Ambivalent Political Voice of Corra Harris," Southeastern Political Review: Women in Southern United States Politics 28, pp. 397-426.
4. ↑ Badura, Catherine O. (2003). "The 'Seemingly Contradictory' Life and Legacy of Georgia Novelist Corra Harris," The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. 87, No. 2, pp. 200-244.
5. ↑ Talmadge, John E. (1964). "Corra Harris Goes to War," The Georgia Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 150-156.
6. ↑ 1870 Census: "United States Census, 1870"
   citing Page: 44; Affiliate Publication Number: M593; Line: 5; FHL microfilm: 000545647; Record number: 17862;
   FamilySearch Record: MCSB-1W5 (accessed 21 December 2022)
   FamilySearch Image: S3HY-64L9-7G4 Image number 00457
   Cora M White (1) in Elbert, Georgia, United States. Born in Georgia.

   1870 United States Federal Census: Elbert, Georgia, United States

   Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Birth Place
   Tinsley R White	M	26		Georgia
   Mary E White	F	24		Georgia
   Cora M White	F	1		Georgia

7. ↑ Marriage: "Georgia Marriages, 1808-1967"
   citing FHL microfilm: 209532;
   FamilySearch Record: FW8P-DM9 (accessed 21 December 2022)
   Corrie White marriage to Lundy H. Harris on 8 Feb 1887 in Elbert, Georgia, United States.
8. ↑ Marriage: "Georgia, Elbert County Records, 1790-2002"
   citing FHL microfilm: 004968099;
   FamilySearch Record: Q2Z1-FZG9 (accessed 21 December 2022)
   FamilySearch Image: 33S7-9R6F-1BJ Image number 00153
   Corrie White marriage to Lundy H Harris on 8 Feb 1887 in Elbert, Georgia, United States.
9. ↑ 1914 Passport Application: "United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925"
   citing Passport Application, New York, United States, source certificate #41092, Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925, 223, NARA microfilm publications M1490 and M1372 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
   FamilySearch Record: QVJP-421Z (accessed 21 December 2022)
   FamilySearch Image: 3QS7-L9X7-6NLQ Image number 00310
   Name: Corra Harris; Passport Application Date: 1914; Passport Application Place: New York, United States; Birth Date: 17 Mar 1869; Birth Place: Georgia; Age: 45; Source Certificate Nbr: 41092.
10. ↑ Burial: "Find A Grave Index"
    citing record ID 51659476, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
    FamilySearch Record: QVKK-3VQ5 (accessed 21 December 2022)
    Find A Grave: Memorial #51659476
    Corra Mae White Harris burial (died on 9 Feb 1935) in Corra White Harris Chapel, Rydal, Bartow, Georgia, United States of America.

See Also:

• Corra Mae Harris on Wikipedia
• Wikidata: Item Q5172696, en:Wikipedia
• nm0364564 Corra Harris on IMdB