Edwin Allen Bagg and Cora Mabel Pryor

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Husband Edwin Allen Bagg

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           Born: 29 Oct 1863
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           Died: 5 Feb 1959 - Chautauqua Co, NY
         Buried:  - Ellington, Chautauqua Co, NY

       Marriage: 23 Jun 1908 - Conewango Valley, Chautauqua Co, NY

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Wife Cora Mabel Pryor

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           Born: 10 Aug 1878 - Rockland Twp, Venango Co, PA
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           Died: 25 Jul 1934 - Buffalo, Erie Co, NY
         Buried:  - Ellington, Chautauqua Co, NY

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         Father: Peter Lovell Pryer (1844-1882) 1
         Mother: Ellen Burns Nickle (1848-1924) 1

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Children

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1 F Alice Eleanor Bagg

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           Born: 24 Oct 1910 - Conewango Valley, Chautauqua Co, NY
     Christened: 
           Died: 27 May 2006 - ? Randolph, Cattaraugus Co, NY
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Raymond Ray (1908-1983)
           Marr: 21 Jun 1930 - Conewango Valley, Chautauqua Co, NY

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General Notes: Husband - Edwin Allen Bagg

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The feed mill, owned by Edwin A. Bagg at Conewango Valley burned in January, 1916 and he immediately rebuilt a bigger and better mill. In the summer of 1916 some of the most influential men of Conewango Valley decided they needed a bank in the valley so through their efforts a bank was opened for business in January 1917 with Edwin A. Bagg as president which office he held for fifteen years. He was quite an active member of the community and Church and held many different offices in both. He acted as janitor of the Church at Conewango Valley for over twenty years without financial remuneration.

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General Notes: Wife - Cora Mabel Pryor

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Residing in Conewango Valley, NY, in Aug, 1924.
She was killed in an automobile accident.

Cora Mabel Pryor received her common school education at the elementary school at Nickleville, Venango County, Penna. And graduated from the Clarion State Teachers College in 1897. She taught two terms of school and then decided she didn't like teaching. She did some practical nursing and while thus engaged at the home of her cousins, Ola and Arthur Sweet of Conewango Valley, N.Y. she met Edwin A. Bagg who operated a hardware store and feed mill in Conewango Valley and they were married on June 23, 1908. They lived upstairs over the hardware store and she helped out as needed. Her household duties became more strenuous and occupied as she had one daughter, Alice, and was her mothers nurse for four years and she became quite helpless during the last years of her life. After her mothers death she worked up quite a business hanging paper and was very active in all Church and Community activities. She also took a baby boy to raise who was about six years old when she died.
On Sunday evening July 8, 1934 she and her husband, E. A. Bagg, her daughter, Alice Ray, and two children, Harold and Betty Ray, were returning home from Buffalo where they had taken Alice's husband, Raymond, in to the city. About twelve miles out of Buffalo a car broke into the line of traffic from the side a short distance ahead of them and to avoid getting mixed up in the tangle of cars, Alice, who was driving turned to the ditch crossed it and ran into the field where the car was stopped by some obstruction and Cora, who was in the back seat with the two children was thrown to the floor of the car where she received a cut on the forehead and an injury to her back. They took her to the Millard Fillmore Hospital in Buffalo. On Saturday they placed her in a plaster paris cast which she was to wear for some time. On Tuesday, July 24 the doctor told her she could go home on Thursday, but on Wednesday morning, July 25 about 3:00 A.M. she went to her Heavenly home instead of her home in Conewango Valley N.Y. A Blood clot had formed near her heart which caused her very sudden death. She is greatly missed, not only in her own family but in the Methodist Church and Community of Conewango Valley. She was always making other peoples troubles her own.
Funeral services were conducted in the Methodist Church at Conewango Valley by her pastor, Rev. Croxall. Her last resting place is in the cemetery at Ellington, N.Y. beside her baby grandson, Barry Ray, who was buried there just a year before.

1 Mrs. Harold V. Linn, Daniel Smith - Pioneer Settler of Rockland Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania (Venango County, PA: Privately published, 1961), Pg 120.