Cordelia Heck

Cordelia was born in 1868 in ,Hawkins, Tennessee.¹   Cordelia's father was Adam Stewart Heck and her mother was Mary Smith.  Her paternal grandparents were Jacob Heck and Barbara Kilmer. She had four brothers and three sisters, named Louis D., James A., Charles, George A., Nancy Jane, Sarah A. and Martha E..  She was the third youngest of the eight children. She had two half-brothers and a half-sister, named John S., William H. and Dulcena.