Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire . Cornelia Wallace, a former first lady of Alabama who threw herself over her husband, Gov. George C. Wallace, when he was shot in a 1972 assassination attempt, died on Thursday in Sebring, Fla. She was 69.
The cause was cancer, her cousin Melissa Boyen said.
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Cornelia Ellis Snively, a dark-haired beauty known as C’nelia,
married George Wallace on Jan. 4, 1971, just days before he began his
second term as governor. |