Gazlay Family History
Cora Roberts ‘Cody’ Collins
Parents
| Father | [unknown] |
| Mother | [unknown] |
Personal Information
| Record Created: 7 March 2011; Last Edited: 11 March 2013 |
| Person ID | 2113 |
| Name | Cora Roberts ‘Cody’ Collins |
| Gender | Female |
| Born | 13 October 1906 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
| Married | 18 April 1929 in Okeechobee, Okeechobee County, Florida to John Peirce Gazlay4, 5, 6 |
| Divorced | 21 June 1945 in Dade County, Florida from John Peirce Gazlay7, 8 |
| Married | to James A. Baker |
| Died | 21 May 1989 in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina2, 3 |
Person/Family
| Spouse 1 |  John Peirce Gazlay (son of John Arvin Gazlay, Jr. and Maude Irene Peirce) |
| Born | 23 May 1904 in Bellevue, Huron County, Ohio |
| Married | 18 April 1929 in Okeechobee, Okeechobee County, Florida to Cora Roberts ‘Cody’ Collins |
| Married | 15 August 1945 in Coral Gables, Dade County, Florida to Catherine Hartley Chase |
| Died | 12 February 1996 in Dade County, Florida |
| Children | of Cora Roberts ‘Cody’ Collins and John Peirce Gazlay: |
| +1. | Col. John Collins Gazlay |
| Born | 2 March 1930 in Miami, Dade County, Florida |
| Married | 26 June 1954 to Carolyn Hoge ‘Petey’ Meyer |
| Died | 22 June 2011 in Salinas, Monterey County, California |
| Spouse 2 | James A. Baker |
| Born | |
| Married | to Cora Roberts ‘Cody’ Collins |
| Died |
Sources
- Email from Mary Fetter to Lee Gazlay, various dates in April and June 2013. The emails include as attachments 18 pages of hand-written family history notes containing the names, birth, marriage and death dates and places, primarily centered around the ancestors and descendants of Carl Adolph Hildebrand (1886-1965) and his wife Maria Elizabeth Gazlay (1883-1973). The pages include surnames Gazlay, Hildebrand, Rhoades, Morgan, Zehner, and Fetter, among many other surnames. The information in these pages matches the same information found in other (primarily public) records, so is considered highly reliable.
- Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Rootsweb (website). Baker, Cody C.; no. 262-03-4364.
- North Carolina Death Collection 1908-2004; Ancestry (website). Cody Collins Baker, age 82, died 21 May 1989, Ashville, Buncombe County, North Carolina; born 13 October 1906, Minnesota.
- U.S. Federal Census, 1930, Florida, Dade County, South Miami, Enumeration District 13-105, Sheet No. 2A, family of John Gazley (48, Ohio, salesman, real estate, 21 at first marriage), wife Maude Gazley (49, Ohio, 22 at first marriage), son John Gazley Jr. (25, Ohio, farmer, 23 at first marriage), daughter-in-law Cora F. Gazley (23, Ohio, 21 at first marriage), grandson John Gazley 3 (11/12, FL), son Harold Gazley (19, Ohio, guard, prison).
- Florida State Census, 1935, Dade County, Precinct No. 63, Page 4, family of John Gazley (54, Ohio, salesman), wife Maude P. Gazley (54, Ohio), son John P. Gazley (30, Ohio, salesman), son Harold Gazley (24, Ohio, salesman), wife’s mother Olive G. Pierce (85, VT), wife Cody C. Gazley (26, Minn., cashier), son John C. Gazley Jr. (5, Fla).
- Florida Marriages, 1837-1974, available at familysearch.org. John Pierce Gazlay and Cora Collins, 18 April 1929, Okeechobee, FL.
- Florida Divorce Index 1927-2001. Available at Ancestry.com and familysearch.org, John P. Gazlay and Cora C. Gazlay, 1945, Dade County FL.
- Gazlay Family Notes, undated and unpublished. This photocopy of five pages of hand-written notes start with what is believed to be the same 1852 interview of Sayrs Gazlay by his brother Theodore that is transcribed elsewhere. The remaining pages focus on the branch of the family that includes John Arvin Gazlay (1846-1911). Some dates in this photocopy differ from other sources. Transcription available at Gazlay Family History (website).