Brief Life History of Coralie
When Coralie Nelson was born on 6 December 1938, in Guthrie Center, Guthrie, Iowa, United States, her father, Lee Edward Nelson, was 24 and her mother, Evah Francis Hidlebaugh, was 24. She lived in Des Moines, Iowa, United States for about 6 years. She died in 2007, in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Panora, Guthrie, Iowa, United States.
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Sources (7)
- Coralie Neilson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Coralie Nelson Winkle, "Find A Grave Index"
- Coralie Winkle, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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World Events (8)
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
1941 · The Four Freedoms
President Roosevelt spoke in front of Congress and gave a speech on what Freedoms everyone should be granted. First being the Freedom of Speech. Second, the freedom of Religion, Third, The Freedom from Want, and Fourth, the Freedom from Fear. Being a big deal, FDR didn't just say that all people should have these freedoms because Americans already expected these freedoms.
1958 · The First U.S. Satellite in Space
Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.
Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the personal name Nell or Nele, either of which might be a pet form of Elias or less commonly of Niel (from Latin Nigellus). See also Neal .
Americanized form of Swedish Nilsson and also of the Danish, Norwegian, and North German cognates Nielsen and Nilsen (compare Nelsen ). Compare also Neilson and Nielson .
History: The Nelson name was an important one in 18th-century VA, starting with Thomas ‘Scotch Tom’ Nelson, who emigrated to VA at the close of the 17th century from Penrith, Cumbria, where the Nelsons were numerous. Scotch Tom settled c. 1700 at Yorktown, VA, where he became a successful merchant and landholder. His son was sheriff and a member of the VA Council, and his grandson, Thomas Nelson (1738–89), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was governor of VA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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