Uncertain of interpretation of middle initial from 1870 census.

The recent (July 2013) discovery in the effects of Isabelle WEAVER (nee SCHULTZ) of a photo identified as John & Cora STUGART, has led to the possibility that Cora may actually be Cary E. TAYLOR. A possible connection can be found in the 1930 census of Montoursville, PA. It shows Cora, age 62, as the wife of John T. STUGART, and both of them are stated as born in Pennsylvania. In the same household is a "niece" named Mary TAYLOR, age 26, born in Minnesota, but whose parents were born in Pennsylvania. While not an exact fit on the age, this seems to be a good match for Mary TAYLOR, daughter of Charles P. TAYLOR & Louise WASSMUND. The Minnesota birth index lists only three Mary TAYLORs born 1900-1905, and one is the daughter of Charles; the other two do not match any known family member. Mary had been living with her widowed father in Nebraska at least though 1920 and probably until he died in 1926. If she was still single then, she must have returned east to live with her Aunt Cora. The Muncy cemetery has no record of a Cary E. TAYLOR born ca.1868, so the fact she does not appear in the 1880 census with her father, Mahlon, may simply mean she was sent to live with another relative, though no trace of her has yet been found in the 1880 census. [3257], [1920], [464, CERTID# 1901-15865] John & Cora were still in the same house in Montoursville, in the 1940 census. Public family trees on Ancestry.com suggest that Cora died 23-NOV-1944 in Watkins Glen, Schuyler County, NY. And that she had two sons, Ruben/Rubin/Reuben and William Tomilson STUGART. Marriage of Cora to John is listed as 1892. John appears to have died in 1943. It would seem his middle initial stood for TOMILSON. The same user gives Cora’s middle name as Edith, which could be in honor of her grandmother.