Cinderella Vankirk was born in May 1855 in Virginia to Arthur Vankirk of Ohio and Elonvia (maiden name unknown) of Virginia. The surname Vankirk is, according to Ancestry.com, 100% German. Cinderella is my third great-grandmother through my paternal side. The lineage is as follows: Cinderella Vankirk was the mother of Mary J. Woodruff, who was the mother of Thelma Clotine Sayles, who was the mother of my grandfather, who was the father of my father, who is the father of yours truly.
Cinderella married Cornelius C. Woodruff on February 24, 1876 in Sangamon County, Illinois. They had two children (according to the 1900 census): Mary J. in 1887 and Marion in 1891. The 1900 federal census places Cindrella in Champaign, Illinois at the age of 45. I have yet to find a record of her death, but she may have died between 1900 and 1910.
In the 1904 directory for Champaign, Illinois I discovered an entry for Cornelius Woodruff, electrician, living with Mary Woodruff (who would have been 17 years old at the time.) I then discovered a Nov. 1903 document from the "Judge's Miscellaneous Journal" that states Cinderella Woodruff was committed to a hospital for the insane in Kankakee, Ill in November of 1903. After that, she disappears off the grid. There is no record of her death in the state of Illinois.
I will add to this entry if I find anymore information. I'm currently (yes, like right now!) searching through the 1910 census record for the Kankakee State Hospital. Sometimes genealogy is detective work...
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