Nora Cleora Lee

Brief Life History of Nora Cleora

When Nora Cleora Lee was born on 23 November 1866, in Neenah, Winnebago, Wisconsin, United States, her father, William Howard Lee, was 37 and her mother, Lovina Finley, was 33. She married Peter August Johnson on 25 December 1886, in Cumberland, Cumberland, Barron, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Weston, Wyoming, United States in 1910 and Rainy River, Ontario, Canada in 1911. She died on 30 May 1914, in Stratton, Morley Township, Rainy River, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 47.

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Family Time Line

Peter August Johnson
1855–1907
Nora Cleora Lee
1866–1914
Marriage: 25 December 1886
Xury Johnson
1883–1884
Belle Carrie Johnson
1885–
Eva Marian Johnson
1888–1964
Jessie May Johnson
1891–1982
Nye Lee Johnson
1893–
Howard William Johnson
1896–1930
Clarence Dewey Johnson
1898–1982
Frances Lillian Johnson
1901–
Ida Ferne Johnson
1903–
Theodore Roosevelt Johnson
1905–1976

Sources (20)

  • Nora Williams in household of Ralph Williams, "Canada Census, 1911"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Nora Cleora Lee - Published information: birth: 23 November 1866; Neenah, Winnebago, Wisconsin, United States
  • Nora C Johnson, "Wyoming Marriages, 1869-1923"

World Events (8)

1867 · The First Successful Typewriter is Invented

A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.

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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Chinese Young, Sang, Jae, Jong, Jung, Sung, Yong, Kyung, Seung, Dong, Kwang, Myung.

English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land, Middle English lee, lea, from Old English lēa, dative case (used after a preposition) of lēah, which originally meant ‘wood or glade’.

English: habitational name from any of the many places in England named with Old English lēah ‘wood, glade’, including Lee in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, and Shropshire, and Lea in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Wiltshire.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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