When Cordelia Melissa Worsham was born on 23 December 1865, in Lawrence, Missouri, United States, her father, Peter Ragan Worsham, was 38 and her mother, Nancy Jordan Scott, was 40. She married Ulysses Grant Seburn on 9 February 1888. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in United States in 1949 and Arcadia, Malheur, Oregon, United States in 1950. She died on 21 July 1954, in Nyssa, Malheur, Oregon, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Nyssa, Malheur, Oregon, United States.
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The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Married Women’s Property Act protected women’s rights protected property for women in Oregon upon the death of her husband.
Historical Boundaries - 1889: Malheur, Oregon, United States
English: habitational name from either of two places called Worsham, in Oxfordshire and Sussex. The first is named from the Old English personal name Wulfmǣr + hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’; the second is from an unattested Old English personal name Wyrtel + hā.
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