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When she woke up Chester, David (Her sons) and their wives were around the bed. She couldn't speak, but she patted her bed and motioned them to leave. Although Peggy, her daughter-in-law continued to keep Cora company during her time in the hospital. She only missed one day out of the 40 that Cora was in the hospital.
When she was out of the ICU, she roomed with another lady who suddenly had a heart attack. Both Cora and the lady rang the nurses station several times but nobody came. Cora went out of the room and called out at three nurses and a doctor who were sitting around the nurses station, but hadn't answered her call for help. "For Lord's sake, come here! This woman is dying!"
Cora saw them bring a lot of equipment into the room and the woman lived. After the excitement Cora was talking to a young doctor in the hall. She said "If I could find the one who beat me back to life, I would beat him. If I was that far gone why didn't they let me go on and die? What do I have to live for?"
"Mrs. Hull" said the doctor, "You have lots to live for at your age."
"How old do you think I am?"
"...75"
"I'm 81, and I've been by myself for twenty years. Buried a second husband and its time for me to go".
"You must have been hard on them Mrs Hull."
"I just don't believe in paramedics -They should just let you die. I'd like to beat on them like they beat on me."
"Well Mrs Hull you had better hit me because I was the one who brought you back to life."
She laughed and hit him on the shoulder.
Cora went to live with David and Peggy Hull while she recovered. She had lived by herself for twenty years and didn't want to go back to her place by herself and certainly didn't want to go to a nursing home, so Dave and Peg gave her their room.
She is in better health today than she was two years ago. I can tell that she loves her new family. Peg, whom I respect more than anyone I have ever met, keeps her on a strict diet and I believe this is one of the reasons Cora looks so much better than two years ago.
I asked Cora about her days as a midwife. The only two incidents she remembers clearly are when the doctor wasn't present at the time of birth. One time, Mrs Craiger, was having trouble and the doctor went for an ambulance. The baby ended up dying before even leaving the womb.
Another time when Mrs. Lovejory was having her third child the doctor left because he said it would be at least another hour before delivery and he had to get some dinner. Surely enough the baby was born while the doctor was away. Cora ended up playing the role of the doctor while the woman was in labor. Cora half-jokingly said "I brought this baby into the world and you owe me half your fee." Of course she never saw a penny.
To end the journal I wanted to ask Cora some general questions...
She told me that the happiest period of her life was just after the death of Charlie her second husband. After he passed away Cora went on her first plane trip to California to see Anna her oldest sister. She got to tour around San Francisco and different areas of California.
The most stressful period was the depression, just trying to keep the kids fed and clothed.
If there is one thing that she would like to change about her past, she wishes that she would have waited until after marriage before she had sex.
I don't believe that as far as values or morals Cora was necessarily a part of her times. She never smoked or drank. She gave this as an example because at one time two girls called her a "pink-panty waist" because she didn't do these things. Her reply was "I'm an individual and I don't believe in it. I've done thirty years without it and will go another thirty without it."
Religion - She feels that everybody has their own religion and it should not be forced on others. Although she feels that it is important for children to be brought up with some kind of religious training to teach them moral values.
Before ending my last visit with Cora, we talked about the family. If anybody understands the different members of the family and their problems, social experiences and learning experiences in general, I believe that person is Cora.
I stepped into the room of her favorite grandchild and said hello. I barely know my cousin, but I can see immediately why grandma loves her so much. Angie is fifteen, a shy, gentle, quiet child. She's living a much different life and is very much a different girl from what I imagine grandma would have been like at a similar age. But Angie loves to read and I see in her the character of somebody who has the potential to become as great a woman as grandma...
David Davis (1960)
Dick and David Davis (1959)
Chester Davis w/ his half brother David Hull (1936)
Chester Davis
Decades...
Cora took Chet and started working as a maid for a man named Charlie Hull on October 1st, 1933. Only two months later they were married on December 4th. Four years after Myles death.
Charlie had been married twice before and brought four children to the marriage. One of his children, Mary-Jane, was a bastard child by a soldier. Charlie married her mother and took her up as his step-daughter. Charlie also had a daughter named Verna-Mae and two sons, Kent and Erwin. Cora loved her stepchildren and I get the feeling that she was particularly happy to have two step-daughters to take care for.
David Hull was born to Charlie and Cora June 21st, 1935.
Charlie did all he could to make a dollar. He was a good worker, a good father and a good provider. He was always faithful to Cora and said that she was the best wife he had ever had. But even though Cora respected Charlie more than Myles, she didn't feel the strong love with her second husband as she had for her first husband. "I don't think there is ever the strong feeling falling in love the second time as there is the first time".
Times were hard. Charlie and Cora went through the Depression years together. They both worked and got coupons for food ("food stamps"). Cora worked in homes for about 20 cents an hour, eight hours per day, five days a week.
Cora ran the show during this marriage. She said that she wouldn't take the pain from Charlie that she did from Myles. But then, she didn't have to because Charlie was so good to her.
She remembers that her first fight with Charlie was over him buying something that the family didn't need. She told Charlie that she did not want to live in debt. She remembers well what it was like when her mother had forced the family into debt with reckless spending. Cora had evidently gone into debt in order to pay for a house, but never for cloths and the likes. "I never purchased cloths that I knew couldn't afford".
Some years later Charlie had developed sugar diabetes and gangrene set in one leg. The doctor amputated his foot but it wasn't enough. Five days later they took off his other leg. He died January 5th, 1961. 12 hours after his second operation. Cora said that his mind was "gone" after his first operation. Charlie would probably have only lived six months anyway and in horrible pain.
Cora missed Charlie, but neither Myles or Charlies death struck her too hard. Her feelings on death are that "when your time comes you go no matter what. The doctors can't save you and neither can anyone else". She's not real religious but she believes in the Bible. "Your days are already numbered as the hairs on your head".
After Charlies death she decided that she wasn't going to have any more men in her life. She was going to live for herself and she denied herself sexual feelings at this time. She would like to go out to supper or a show, but she didn't want to be pressured into sex, and most men expect it after they know you have been married.
From 1961 to 1966 Cora lived with her son Chester Davis and his family five days a week, going home on Friday evenings and coming back Sundays. She did everything for her grandchildren Dick and David during this time, making the meals, ironing, washing, etc. For $10-15 a week. Eventually Chester's wife, Marie Davis started to take over most of the housework.
Cora left the Davis family in 1966 and thereafter worked just about every week for different households doing helping with homework, cooking and babysitting. Normally she stayed at the home of the people she was working for. She would stay anywhere from one week to ten days when the parents of the family wanted to take a vacation away from the children.
Cora quit working when she was 71 years old in 1971. During this time she walk to Senior Citizens everyday and make quilts which would sell for $35 a quilt.
Cora developed health problems around 1965. After a bout with pheanomia she was hospitalized for sugar diabetes. She was weak, nervous and sweating. She could only eat crackers and drink tea before going to Mercy Hospital and being put on pills for diabetes.
In 1974 she was sent to a Community Hospital in Springfield. She had pains radiating from her head, back and arms. This time she was put on insulin shots instead of the pill.
May 5th, 1981 Cora was once again hospitalized at Community Hospital. She was placed in intensive care for about a week before she was released. They told her that nothing was wrong with her heart, but she was experiencing pain in the side of her head, her neck and right arm. They took her out of intensive care. That Friday she took two pills for her pain yet it didn't go away. She got up from the table she was sitting at to get into bed and this is the last thing she remembers before waking up the next morning in the Intensive Care Unit. She was told that "something broke and flooded her heart". A young doctor had pounded her back to life...
Cora Young (1918)
Cora Young (1923)
Chester Davis (1925)
No End in Sight...
Myles took Cora with him everywhere he went for about a year after they got back together. Although later he and her brother would go on fishing trips to St. Mary's and other places. Alfred her brother, let it slip out that girl went with them on these trips. The next time they left Cora told Myles "You ain't gonna catch many fish when you're trying to catch girls". If you go, I'm leaving also to go to Dayton to meet a boyfriend. "What's sauce for the gander, is sauce for the goose". -Whatever that actually means.
Myles didn't believe her and he left anyway. Cora left for Dayton and spent the weekend with her sister Ada. She returned late Monday. Myles asked her where she had been and she told him that it was none of his business. That ended the fishing trips but not Myles affairs. Eventually, Myles asked Chester and found out that they had only gone to see Ada. Still, Cora threatened to leave for Washington to hook up with her boyfriend if Myles didn't straighten up.
Myles didn't immediately stop his affairs with other women and asked Cora why she stayed with him. She said that she did it for Chester, knowing how hard it was for her when her mother left the family. Also, she felt that she knew why Myles ran around. His parents had always kept a tight hand on him when he was younger. He was never able to run around and get it out of his system until he was 21 years old. Once he was 21 and married he felt free to do as he wanted. Myles was just a selfish man.
Myles had gotten sick and was refused admittance into the army because of a goiter he had since the time Cora and he were married. It got bad enough that he had to stay home and couldn't work. This is probably why he stayed true to Cora the last couple of years of his life.
Cora and Myles has lost their home because they couldn't keep up with the payments. Myles was taking morphine for the pain and became addicted to it. Eventually the poisonous goiter got large enough to cut off Myles air supply. Surely enough Myles passed away at the age of 33, October 29th, 1929.
I asked her how she felt after Myles died. She said that she hurt more after her fathers death. She didn't go through the stages of mourning; she had a son to care for and that was her primary concern.
Cora went to Selver Grove after Myles death. She worked tending a store. She had Wednesdays off and once a month she got Sundays off.
One family she worked for were named the Harshbarger's. Cora expected to be paid with money and one quart of milk every night. Ultimately Mrs. Harshbarger said that Cora owed her money because of the milk she took home. Mrs. Harshbarger stole 12 chickens that belonged to Cora and sold them, saying that she did it because Cora owed her money. Although Cora didn't think that this was fair she didn't put up much of a fight. "You're just stealing my chickens with as much work as I've done. But if they'll do you more good than they'll do me, then I'll get along".
During this time her son Chester was staying with her brother Lee and his wife Alberta. She was paying them to keep the boy. She found out that they were mistreating Chester by making him take out the stop jar. In addition Alberta had broken into a trunk of Cora's possessions. It was locked but she took the hinges off the back and stole some dishes giving them away as presents to her mother. Cora said that the dishes had been a wedding gift and were of value to her. Alberta claimed that the dishes were broken and that she didn't steal them. However Cora pointed out that the dishes on top of the stolen ones weren't broken so how come her good dishes broke? Alberta had no explanation and became silent.
Cora was at a point in her life where she just could not seem to catch a break. She eagerly wanted to make a good life for her son. It seemed as though she would never be able to offer Chester the life she felt he deserved. That was before she met a man named Charlie Hull...
Chester Davis (1924)