Brief Life History of Cora A
When Cora A Anderson was born on 5 October 1885, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, her father, James Harley Anderson, was 28 and her mother, Mariah M. Brown, was 26. She married John William Anderson on 13 December 1903. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Civil District 12, Jackson, Tennessee, United States in 1910 and Granville, Jackson, Tennessee, United States in 1920. She died on 20 March 1920, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 34.
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- Cora A Anderson in household of John W Anderson, "United States Census, 1910"
- Cora Anderson, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
- Cara Anderson in entry for Clyde Anderson, "Tennessee, Birth Records (ER Series), 1908-1912"
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1886
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1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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