Brief Life History of Margaret Murray
When Margaret Murray Sneddon was born on 19 October 1878, in Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Sneddon, was 23 and her mother, Christine Newton, was 21. She married Oliver Henry Brown in 1903, in Uinta, Wyoming, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Diamondville, Uinta, Wyoming, United States in 1910 and Uinta, Wyoming, United States in 1920. She died on 30 June 1955, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Margaret Brown in household of O H Brown, "United States Census, 1920"
- Margaret M Sneddon, "Wyoming Marriages, 1869-1923"
- Sneddon Brown, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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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.
1890
Historical Boundaries 1868: Green River, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Wyoming Territory, United States 1869: Uinta, Wyoming Territory, United States 1890: Uinta, Wyoming, United States 1911: Lincoln, Wyoming, United States
1899 · The Salt Palace Convention Center
The original Salt Palace was built in 1899 and It stood on 900 South, between State Street and Main Street. The Salt Palace was a frame structure covered in large pieces of rock salt, which gave it its name. The Salt Palace was destroyed by fire on August 29, 1910 and was replaced by the Majestic Hall. This Hall only lasted for a while during the remodel of the Salt Palace. The Salt Palace served as the Olympic Media Center during the 2002 Winter Olympics. Salt Lake Comic Con has been held at the Salt Palace Convention Center since September 2013.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from the lands of Sneddon in Paisley (Renfrewshire), from Snawdon in Garvald and Barra (East Lothian), or perhaps from Snawdon near Thirlestane in Lauderdale (Berwickshire). Whichever placename is involved in the surname is ultimately from Old English snāw ‘snow’ + dūn ‘hill’, like the famous Snowdon in Wales. Those in Scotland may be independent coinings and literal descriptions of hills on which snow tended to lie long, but Snowdoun or Snawdoun also belong to a group of Arthurian names, popular in Scotland in the later Middle Ages, and may have been applied as such in the names mentioned and also in the case of the lost Snadown by St. Andrews (Fife). Stirling was regarded as standing on the boundary of the ancient Scottish and British kingdoms, with strong associations with King Arthur, making it possible for King David II to claim to the chronicler Jean Froissart in 1365 that Stirling Castle was the Snowdon of King Arthur. It may be that the placename(s) supplying the surname allude to this potent mythology.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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William H. Nuckols Personal History 1986
Aunt Peggy (Maggie) was the oldest child. She was 18 years older than Mother [Ruth Sneddon Nuckols], and as a result, there was not the closest relationship with Mother. Aunt Peggy was a very attracti …
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