Brief Life History of Cora Baker
When Cora Baker Thurston was born on 15 June 1859, in Garden City Township, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States, her father, Irvin Harris Thurston, was 31 and her mother, Lydia Ellen Dunham, was 23. She lived in South Bend Township, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States in 1860. She died on 2 March 1867, in Garden City Township, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 7, and was buried in Garden City Township, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States.
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- Cora Thinston in household of Irvin Thinston, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Cora Baker Thurston - Cemetery record or headstone: birth-name: Cora B Thurston
- Cora Baker Thurston, "Find A Grave Index"
World Events (6)
1862 · The Dakota Conflict/War
The Dakota War was an armed conflict between the United States and several bands of Dakota Native Americans. It began along the Minnesota River four years after Minnesota was admitted as a state. The Dakota made attacks on hundreds of settlers, which resulted in their deaths. A military tribunal sentenced 303 Dakota men to death for their crimes but 264 of them were exonerated. The remaining 38 were apart of a mass hanging on December 26 that same year. It was the largest mass execution in United States history.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
English (mainly East Anglia):
from the Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Scandinavian, and Middle English personal name Thurstan, Thorsten (Old Norse Thórsteinn, Thorsten, Anglicized as Old English Thurstān; see Thorstensen ).
habitational name from Thurston in Suffolk, so called from the genitive case of the Old Norse personal name Thóri (see Thor ) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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