Brief Life History of Cora Georgiana
When Cora Georgiana Snow was born on 11 July 1843, in Canton, Stark, Ohio, United States, her father, Zerubbabel Levi Snow, was 34 and her mother, Mary Augusta Hawkins, was 20. She married George Wiley Carleton on 16 October 1887. She lived in Election District 6 Carter, Uinta, Wyoming, United States in 1900 and San Diego, San Diego, California, United States for about 5 years. She died on 16 December 1915, in San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 72.
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- Georgiana Snow in household of T Snow, "United States Census, 1860"
- Cora Georgiana Snow, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- California, Death Index, 1905-1939
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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