Brief Life History of Mera
When Mera Colton was born on 20 March 1909, in Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States, her father, Don Byron Colton, was 32 and her mother, Grace Stringham, was 30. She married Joseph Grant Brazier on 17 September 1937, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She lived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1940 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. She died on 4 June 2008, in Roswell, Fulton, Georgia, United States, at the age of 99, and was buried in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States.
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- Mera C Brazier, "United States Census, 1950"
- Mera Colton, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
- Mera Colton, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1910 · The BSA is Made
Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.
1913 · Women's Suffrage Demonstration
A demonstration for women's suffrage takes place on March 3, 1913. This is the first suffrage parade in Washington D.C. One of the notable women in attendance is Ida B. Wells.
1935 · The FBI is Established
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire): habitational name from any of various places called Colton in England. Examples in Norfolk, Staffordshire, and North Yorkshire are from the Old English personal name Cola (or the cognate Old Norse Koli; see Cole 2) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. The place so named in Somerset has as its first element the Old English personal name Cūla (of uncertain origin). The one in Cumbria has a river name apparently derived from a Celtic word meaning ‘hazel’. This English name is also common in Ireland; it was the name of a bishop of Derry in 1397. There seems also to have been confusion with Culliton .
Scottish and Irish (Monaghan): shortened and altered form of Gaelic Mac Haldan, ‘son of Haldan’, see Haldane .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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