Brief Life History of Caroline Cornelia
Caroline Cornelia Porter was born on 2 October 1840, in North Carolina, United States. She married Cicero L. Mosteller on 1 April 1860. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Cass, Georgia, United States in 1860 and Georgia, United States in 1870. She died on 17 February 1879, in Lampasas, Texas, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Lampasas, Texas, United States.
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- Conelia Mostiller in household of Cicero Mostiller, "United States Census, 1870"
- Cornelia Mosteller, "Find A Grave Index"
- Cornelia Parter in entry for Horace Mosteller, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
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World Events (8)
1844 · German Immigration to Texas
Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1853 · First State Fair
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name for the gatekeeper of a walled town or city, or the doorkeeper of a great house, castle, or monastery, from Middle English and Older Scots porter(e), port(o)ur ‘doorkeeper, gatekeeper’ (Anglo-Norman French port(i)er, portur, Latin portarius). The office often came with accommodation, lands, and other privileges for the bearer, and in some cases was hereditary, especially in the case of a royal castle. The name has been established in Ireland since the 13th century. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other languages, for example German Pförtner (see Fortner ) and Poertner .
English: occupational name for a man who carried loads for a living, especially one who used his own muscle power rather than a beast of burden or a wheeled vehicle. This sense is from Middle English port(o)ur, porter ‘porter, carrier of burdens’ (Anglo-Norman French portur, porteo(u)r).
Dutch: variant, mostly Americanized, of Poorter, status name for a freeman (burgher) of a town, Middle Dutch portere, modern Dutch poorter. Compare De Porter .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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