Azro Jackson Cory is my great-grandfather. I have some of the family papers. He was a builder, a lawyer, and a prolific watercolorist. My sister has his watercoler of his mother's grave site near Sanford, Florida. I recently gave his Civil War saber to my grandson, Benjamin Rush Cory, named for Azro's father. Azro joined the Union Army in answer to an ad for "squirrel hunters," and later collected the $25 bounty. He was promoted to Acting Captain to command the burial detail for President Lincoln. He was a theosopher and friend of Samuel Clemmens and Mahatma Gandhi. He was also a friend of sculptress and feminist, Adelaide Johnson, who sculpeted a bust of his son, Ernest Neal Cory. in 1894, which I cast in bronze in 1979.

Happy to provide more details on this and other members of the Cory family upon request.

John Raborg Cory Sr. (410) 836-3380, P.O. Box 302 Darlington, Maryland 21034