Cora Hulcher
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Cora Hulcher
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Edwin Johnson
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06/08/2020
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AncientFaces
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06/10/2020
Isn't she lovely? Born in 1888, Cora Hulcher died at age 102 in 1990 but her family knows little about her background/family. She lived as a Black woman but was often mistaken for a White woman. Maybe you can help her grandson understand her life.
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At those times, even a drop of black blood made you 100% black and therefore looked down upon. Pathetic how little we've progressed.
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Beth Pritchard I disagree. In these current times that one drop of black blood is still considered 100% black, but now a source of pride. (as I confirm my DNA ethnicity). Yes. Pride. Now who wants to tell me I'm looked down upon? You?
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go to rootsweb.com, there are several articles about her you will find interesting
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Raymond Tompkins I’m interested I this story. I tried looking her up in riots web and not finding anything. How did you do the search?
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Gorgeous lady in a time when most women looked like men in dresses.
Laney Briggs
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06/12/2020
Have had a DNA test done? It might sheds some light on her life.
Edwin Johnson
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07/10/2021
Thanks for the comments but nothing fruitful as yet. She did not volunteer any information regarding her family when we were kids growing up in Richmond, which was typical for older people at the time. I suppose they had their reasons. Something happened with her parents since her birth on May 4th 1888 to 1900 when she was 12 years old. I surmise that her parents either abandoned her at some point or they died and left her homeless and was taken in by the Houchins family. She does not show up in the 1900 census nor can I locate her birth certificate where she was born in Richmond.
Edwin Johnson
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07/10/2021
Her father is Caucasion and her mother's race is unknown. I assume that she was a Black woman, otherwise, why would she identify with and live her life as a Black woman.
Edwin Johnson
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06/02/2022
Update: Her actual birth name per her Social Security Application is Cora Mary Lupora Hulcher
Lizzie Kunde
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06/03/2022
Hi Edwin, that is great you found Cora's full name!
All biographies are meant to be updated by the people who knew them. You can go to Cora's biography (Cora Hulcher) directly by seeing the tag in the photo and change or fix any information (like her name) just click the pencil icon next to the appropriate field :)
I updated her name for you, but please let me know if you have any questions or I can be of better help.
Thanks for being a member of our community :)
-Lizzie
All biographies are meant to be updated by the people who knew them. You can go to Cora's biography (Cora Hulcher) directly by seeing the tag in the photo and change or fix any information (like her name) just click the pencil icon next to the appropriate field :)
I updated her name for you, but please let me know if you have any questions or I can be of better help.
Thanks for being a member of our community :)
-Lizzie
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I am faced with an enigma. My Grandmother was born in 1888 as Cora Hulcher. in Richmond VA. Her birth name was unknown to my family until about 6 years ago when I discovered her marriage record from 1907 to Peele R Brown, wherein she lists her name as Cora Hulcher and her parents as James and Cora Hulcher. She shows the same parents and surname on the birth record for her daughter Goldie Brown in 1909. Fact is, my Grandmother has lived her entire life as a Black woman, although, she has been mistaken often as a White woman. I do know that she often visited a Doctor Hulcher at his office on Main Street in Richmond. I don't think this was a coincidence (they were likely related in some way). I can find no birth record or any other connection with any Hulcher family. Any clues? I believe that her parents either died while she was very young or was abandoned and was adopted by a Black family named Houchins (she had a half brother named Joseph R Houchins, who was a member of President Franklin Roosevelt's "Black Cabinet"). Her mother was likely a light skinned Black woman, which would explain why she lived as a Black woman. Her social security card shows her name as Cora Hulcher Brown. She was enumerated in every census except the 1900 census when she would have been 12 years of age.
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