Brief Life History of Laura Cornelia
When Laura Cornelia Lomer was born in 1820, in Ontario, Ontario, Wayne, New York, United States, her father, Darius Loomer, was 29 and her mother, Patience Horton, was 27. She married Robert Horton Truman in 1846. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Blue Earth City Township, Faribault, Minnesota, United States for about 5 years and Mankato, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States in 1880. She died on 13 December 1887, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 67.
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- Cornelia Truman, "Minnesota State Census, 1865 "
- Loomer, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
- Lura C. Truman, "Minnesota, Death Records, 1866-1916"
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1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1836
Established in 1836.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English: (i) occupational name from Middle English * lomer ‘loam-digger’, from lom ‘loam’ (Old English lām) + the agent suffix -er(e). (ii) locative name from one of the places called Lomer ‘loam mere (pond)’, e.g. Lomer Farm in Exton (Hants), near the site of a deserted medieval village of the same name, and in Meopham (Kent).
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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