Brief Life History of Cora
When Cora Warner was born about 1869, in Deer Creek Township, Pickaway, Ohio, United States, her father, Thornton James Warner, was 25 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Davis, was 19. She lived in Union Township, Ross, Ohio, United States in 1880.
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- Cora Warner in household of Thornton Warner, "United States Census, 1870"
- Cora Warner in household of Thornton Warner, "United States Census, 1880"
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World Events (8)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1870 · Giving all the right to vote
The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin) and North German: from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements war(in) ‘protection, shelter’ or ‘guard’ + heri, hari ‘army’. The name was introduced into England by the Normans in the form Warnier (Old French Garnier). Compare Garner and Werner .
English (of Norman origin): shortened form of Warrener (see Warren 2).
Irish (Cork): when this is not the Anglo-Norman name (see above), an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Murnáin (see Murnane ), found in medieval records as Iwarrynane, from a genitive or plural form of the name, in which m is lenited.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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