Brief Life History of Cordelia Elizabeth
When Cordelia Elizabeth Yocom was born on 8 April 1851, in Sangamon, Illinois, United States, her father, William Yocom, was 39 and her mother, Sarah Jane Merriman, was 31. She lived in Williamsville, Sangamon, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States in 1910. She died on 18 May 1916, in Sherman, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Sherman, Sangamon, Illinois, United States.
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- Elizabeth Yocom in household of William Yocom, "United States Census, 1870"
- Cordelia Elizabeth Yocom, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Cordelia Elizabeth Yocom, "Find A Grave Index"
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1854
Historical Boundaries: 1854: Sangamon, Illinois, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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
Altered form of Yokum or Yoakum , surnames of German origin. Compare Yokom .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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