Brief Life History of Clara Jane
When Clara Jane Northcutt was born on 25 September 1918, in Sullivan, Franklin, Missouri, United States, her father, Carroll Earl Northcutt, was 30 and her mother, Mary Catherine Pilkerton, was 31. She married Leon Eldridge Coburn on 10 June 1937, in Fall River, South Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Damascus Election Precinct, Clackamas, Oregon, United States in 1940 and Marion, Marion, Oregon, United States in 1949. She died on 5 July 1998, in Salem, Marion, Oregon, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Restlawn Memory Gardens, West Salem, Polk, Oregon, United States.
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- Clara J Coburn, "United States 1950 Census"
- Clara Jane Coburn, "United States, Obituary Records, 2014-2023"
- Clara in entry for Leon E Coburn, "Oregon Death Index, 1971-2008"
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World Events (8)
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1923
Oldest Known BUrial: Lionel Woerth BIRTH 13 Apr 1923 DEATH 27 May 1923 (aged 1 month) BURIAL Restlawn Memory Gardens West Salem, Polk County, Oregon, USA MEMORIAL ID 106002080
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English (Cornwall): habitational name from any of many minor places in Berkshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, Staffordshire, and particularly common in Devon, called Northcott or Northcote. The placenames derive from Middle English north ‘north, northern’ + cote ‘cottage, shelter’ or Old English north + cot, cote. The spelling of the name is now rare in Britain, Northcott being the more common form.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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