Brief Life History of Cora A
When Cora A Stanley was born on 5 December 1871, in Ackworth, Warren, Iowa, United States, her father, Moses Stanley Jr, was 51 and her mother, Cynthia Beals, was 34. She married Arthur W Lamb on 9 September 1893, in Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Washington Township, Warren, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States for about 20 years. She died on 3 January 1963, at the age of 91, and was buried in Old Mission Cemetery, Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States.
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- Cora A Lamb in household of Arthur W Lamb, "Kansas State Census, 1925"
- Legacy NFS Source: Cora Stanley - Church record: Family genealogies: birth: 5 December 1871; Ackworth, Warren, Iowa, United States
- Cora Stanley in entry for Cyrus Neal Lamb, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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1872 · The First National Park
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1877 · Nicodemus is Founded
The town of Nicodemus was founded by African-American migrants from Kansas in 1877.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Stanley, including those in Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Durham, Gloucestershire, and Wiltshire, named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. This English name has been established in Ireland since the 13th century where it was Gaelicized as de Stainléigh.
English: possibly also a variant of Stoneley, a habitational name from Stoneley Green in Burland (Cheshire), Stoneleigh (Warwickshire), or Stonely in Kimbolton (Huntingdonshire), all named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Americanized form of any of various like-sounding names in other languages, for example Polish Stanislawski , Greek Anastasiou , and Serbian Stojadinov (patronymic from the personal name Stojadin).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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