Brief Life History of Sara
When Sara Gunnell Maughan was born on 25 November 1923, in Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States, her father, Elmer Nibley Maughan, was 39 and her mother, Sarah Veda Brown Gunnell, was 38. She married Clark Jackson Obray on 5 June 1942, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. She lived in Wellsville Election Precinct, Cache, Utah, United States in 1940 and Paradise, Cache, Utah, United States for about 1 years. She died on 13 June 2007, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Paradise Cemetery, Paradise, Cache, Utah, United States.
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Sources (23)
- Sarah Obray, "United States 1950 Census"
- Sara Gunnell Maughan, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
- Sara Maughan Obray, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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World Events (8)
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1928 · The Tower Theater
The Tower Theatre is a historic film theater operated by the Salt Lake Film Society. The theater presents independent films and is a venue for the Sundance Film Festival. It also presents classic films on occasional weekends and hosts a movie-rental library for those that want to expand their cinematic knowledge.
1945 · Peace in a Post War World
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English female personal name Gunnild (Old Norse Gunnhildr), from gunnr + hildr, both elements meaning ‘battle’. This was a popular name in those parts of England that were under Scandinavian influence in the Middle Ages.
Irish (Tipperary): shortened Anglicized form of Mag Congail, a Donegal name more often Anglicized as McGonigle .
Americanized form of German Günnel: from a short form of the ancient Germanic personal names Gundram (see Gundrum) or Gundlach .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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