Brief Life History of Cornelia Eliza
When Cornelia Eliza Clawson was born on 8 December 1843, in Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, Moses Clawson, was 42 and her mother, Cornelia Brown, was 40. She married Armenius Miller on 21 March 1863, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Davis, Utah, United States in 1870. She died after 1880, in Nevada, United States.
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- Cornelia Clawson in household of Moses Clawson, "United States Census, 1850"
- Cornelia Eliza Clawson Miller, "Find A Grave Index"
- Cornelia E. Clawson, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1850
Named after the early pioneer leader Daniel C. Davis the County was established as a territory in 1850.The territorial legislature created Davis County in 1852 and designated its County seat at Farmington-midway between boundaries-the Weber River on the north and the mouth of the Jordan River on the south. Westward the County includes a portion of the Great Salt Lake-its largest island on which Antelope Island State Park is now located.During first half-century Davis County grew slowly.It supported a hardy pioneer people engaged in irrigation agriculture and raising livestock.The Utah Central Railroad(now the Union Pacific crossed the County from Ogden on the north to Salt Lake City on the south in 1870 and offered welcome transportation links to bring manufactured products.This was the beginning of a transition in the County's history that led to mechanized agriculture, a surge of commerce, banking, and local business along with improved roads, new water systems, and the electrification of homes and business
1856
Nevada is the 36th state.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Claxton .
Americanized form of North German, Danish, and Norwegian Clausen , Claussen , or Klausen , and also of their Dutch cognates, such as Claassen or Klaassen, patronymics from short forms of the local equivalents of the personal name Nicholas . Compare Clauson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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BIOGRAPHY OF CORNELIA ELIZA CLAWSON MILLER
Cornelia Eliza Clawson was born on 8 December 1843 in Lima, Hancock, Illinois to Moses and Cornelia Brown Clawson. She was the tenth of twelve children, five girls and seven boys. The first seven ch …
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