Lizzie Andrew Borden

1860 - 1927  (66 years)

• Name	Lizzie Andrew Borden
  Born	19 Jul 1860	Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
  Gender	Female
  _AMTID	190111200304:1030:113173531
  Died	2 Jun 1927	Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
  Notes	My half-sixth cousin five times removed!! From the 'Ancestors of Lizzie Borden' website, http://members.aol.com/a licebeard/borden.html "Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her mother 40 whacks. And when she saw what she had done, She gave her father 41." Remember singing that rhyme on the school playground, jumping rope and s eeing if you could get to 41 whacks? Research on Lizze's genealogy foun d an interesting twist: While Lizzie was found not guilty of patricide d espite strong evidence, she had a five-greats grandfather who was found g uilty of matricide on no more than the testimony of what a man had drea med. Lizzie descended from Thomas CORNELL, born 1627 in England and exe cuted 1673 in Portsmouth, RI. Cornell was convicted of matricide on the t estimony of a man who said that the late Mrs. Cornell had come to him i a dream and accused her son of having killed her. Thomas Cornell almo st certainly was not guilty. Thomas had another descendant (a 4th great -grandson) named Ezra Cornell; Ezra Cornell donated the original endowm ent for Cornell University. Lizzie descended from Thomas Cornell's daughter Innocent Cornell, who w as born posthumously. Whether the widow Cornell [Sarah Earle] named her b aby "Innocent" as a way of saying, "No matter what the sins of her fath er, this baby is innocent," or whether she named the baby "Innocent" as a w ay of stating her own judgment on her late husband is unknown. Regarding the strange case of Thomas Cornell's conviction for matricide , The GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF RHODE ISLAND has the following, which i s from The Friends' records of 8-Feb-1673: "Rebecca Cornell, widow, was killed strangely, at Portsmouth, in her ow dwelling house, was twice viewed by the Coroner's Inquest, digged up a d buried again by her husband's grave in their own land.' Her son Thom as was charged with her murder, but although the jury's verdict in rega d to this affair was, that 'he did murder his mother Rebecca, or was a iding or abetting thereto;' yet the evidence in the case would seem to h ave been in no way conclusive. There was much evidence taken. The son s aid in his own defence that having discoursed with his mother about an h our and a half he went into the next room and staid three-quarters of a hour. His wife then sent his son Edward to his grandmother to know wh ether she would have some milk boiled for her supper. The child saw som e fire on the floor and came back and fetched the candle. Then Henry St aight, myself and the rest followed in a huddle. Henry Straight saw wh at he supposed was an Indian, drunk and burnt on the floor, but when Th omas Cornell perceived by the light of the candle who it was, he cried, ' Oh Lord it is my mother.' Her clothes and body were much burned, and th e jury found a wound on uppermost part of stomach. "John Briggs [Rebecca's brother] testified as to an apparation of a wom an that appeared at his bedside in a dream, and he cried out 'in the na me of God what art thou,' and the apparition answered, 'I am your siste Cornell' and thrice said 'see how I was burnt with fire.' "John Russell, of Dartmouth, testified that George Soule told him (sinc e the decease of Rebecca Cornell), that once coming to the house of Reb ecca, in Portsmouth, she told him that the spring she intended to go an d dwell with her son Samuel, but she feared she would be made away with b efore that. Thomas, Stephen, Edward and John Cornell (sons of Thomas), g ave testimony as to their grandmother's death, saying their father was l ast with her. "Mary Cornell, wife to John, aged twenty-eight years, testified that th ee or four years past being at her mother-in-law, Rebecca Cornell's, a d meeting her on returning from the orchard to the house, she said to d eponent that she had been running after pigs and being weak and no help a d she being disregarded, she thought to have stabbed a penknife into h er heart, that she had in her hand, and then she should be rid of her t ouble, but it came to her mind 'resist the Devil and he will flee from y ou' and then she said she was well satisfied."
  Person ID	I18631	Megan's Big Tree
  Last Modified	31 Dec 1969

  
  

  Father	Andrew Jackson Borden,   b. 13 Sep 1822, Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 4 Aug 1892, Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States  (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Sarah Anthony Morse,   b. 19 Sep 1823, Somerset, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 26 Mar 1863, Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States  (Age 39 years)
  Married	26 Dec 1845	Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States   [1]
  Family ID	F7395	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 19 Jul 1860 - Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States Died - 2 Jun 1927 - Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S277] I Dream of Genealogy Web Site .