Harriet Virginia Knowlton Coray

Brief Life History of Harriet Virginia Knowlton

When Harriet Virginia Knowlton Coray was born on 9 August 1846, in Atchison Township, Nodaway, Missouri, United States, her father, Howard Coray, was 29 and her mother, Martha Jane Knowlton, was 24. She married Wilson Howard Dusenberry on 4 December 1864, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850. She died on 25 June 1872, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 25, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Wilson Howard Dusenberry
1841–1925
Harriet Virginia Knowlton Coray
1846–1872
Marriage: 4 December 1864
Charles Wilson Dusenberry
1866–1912
Cora May Dusenberry
1867–1869
Blanche Dusenberry
1870–1957
Harriet Virginia Dusenberry
1872–1872

Sources (11)

  • Harriet Dusenberry in household of Wilson Dusenberry, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Hattie V. Coray, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
  • Harriet V. Coray Dusenberry, "BillionGraves Index"

World Events (6)

1849

Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States

1850

Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of various places in northern England. Those in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire are named with the Old Norse personal name Kori (see Cory ) + Old Norse býr ‘farm, settlement’, whereas the one in Cumbria has as its first element the Old Irish personal name Corc.

French: nickname from a diminutive of corb ‘crow’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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