Brief Life History of Clara Alvina
When Clara Alvina Moon was born on 24 April 1854, in Clinton, Ohio, United States, her father, Harvey Moon, was 23 and her mother, Eliza Lovenia Britton, was 24. She married Christy Ellis George on 1 January 1869, in Marion, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Ulysses, Butler, Nebraska, United States in 1880 and Union Township, Butler, Nebraska, United States for about 25 years. She died on 13 June 1914, in Garrison, Butler, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Garrison Cemetery, Garrison, Butler, Nebraska, United States.
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Sources (13)
- C A George in household of Cristy George, "Nebraska State Census, 1885"
- Claraa Moore, "Missouri Marriages, 1750-1920"
- Clara A. George, "BillionGraves Index"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1868
This is the first recorded burial in the cemetery. Margaret E Graham BIRTH: 29 Dec 1865 DEATH: 13 Jan 1868 (aged 2) BURIAL: Garrison Cemetery Garrison, Butler County, Nebraska, USA MEMORIAL ID: 100157416
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.
Name Meaning
Irish: variant of Mohan .
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Moyon in La Manche. Compare Mounce .
Americanized form of German Mohn or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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