Brief Life History of Dominicus Carter
When Dominicus Carter Snow was born on 18 June 1851, in Carterville, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, James Chauncey Snow, was 34 and his mother, Eliza Ann Carter, was 32. He married Hannah Selena Harrison on 24 March 1881, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1852. He died on 9 February 1919, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Dominicus Snow, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Dominicus Carter Snow - birth: 18 June 1851; Carterville, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
- Dominicus Snow, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1853
The Provo City Cemetery was dedicated in 1853.
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
English: nickname for someone with snow‐white hair or an exceptionally pale complexion, from Middle English snou, snow ‘snow’ (Old English snaw).
American shortened and altered (translated into English) form of any of the Jewish artificial names composed with German Schnee, Schnei, Schneu ‘snow’ as the first element, e.g. Schneeberg .
Americanized form of French Canadian Chenard , reflecting the characteristic Canadian and American French rounding of the -ard ending.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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JAMES CHAUNCY SNOW
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