Brief Life History of Cora Bell
When Cora Bell Smithart was born on 7 June 1884, in Ollie, Keokuk, Iowa, United States, her father, James “Jim” Wilson Smithart, was 35 and her mother, Mary Ann Keasling, was 25. She married Mose Van Orsdall on 21 February 1902, in Sigourney, Keokuk, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. She lived in West Lancaster Township, Keokuk, Iowa, United States in 1910 and Van Buren Township, Keokuk, Iowa, United States in 1920. She died on 7 March 1920, in Keokuk, Iowa, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Orsdall Cemetery, Ollie, Keokuk, Iowa, United States.
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- Cora B Smithhart, "Iowa State Census, 1895"
- Cora Dellie Smithart, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Cara Dell Vanarsdall, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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Origin undetermined. Compare Smithhart .
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