Brief Life History of Claribel Hope
When Claribel Hope Cowan was born on 1 May 1892, in Primghar, O'Brien, Iowa, United States, her father, Robert Cowan, was 30 and her mother, Clara Belle Morton, was 26. She married Theodore Sigvaard Mondale on 15 June 1925, in Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Heron Lake, Jackson, Minnesota, United States in 1935 and Elmore Township, Faribault, Minnesota, United States in 1940. She died on 30 March 1967, in White Bear Lake, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Maplewood, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (16)
- Clarabel Cowan in household of Robt Cowan, "Iowa State Census, 1895"
- Claribel Cowan, "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935"
- Claribel Hope Cowan Mondale, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1876–1948 Male
1892–1967 Female
Children (3)
1926–2014 Male
1928–2021 Male
1935– Male
Parents and Siblings
1861–1950 Male
1866–1911 Female
Siblings (4)
1886–1965 Female
1889–1974 Male
1892–1967 Female
1902–1965 Male
World Events (8)
1893
Age 1
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
Age 4
1912 · The Girl Scouts
Age 20
Name Meaning
Scottish and Manx: shortened form of McOwen and McKeown . See also McEwen .
Sottish and Manx: from a shortened form of Irish Ó Comhdhain and Mac Comhdhain ‘descendant or son of Comhdan’ or Gaelic Mac Comhghain ‘son of Comhghan (‘the twin’). Pronounced to rhyme with Owen, the name sometimes appears as Coan and Cohen in Down, and has been used interchangeably with Irish Coyne in Connacht and McIlhone in Tyrone. In the Isle of Man the name is pronounced /'kauən/ (with Cow- as in English cow).
Scottish and Manx: sometimes a variant of Colquhoun , pronounced Cohoon in Scotland and Cahoon in Ulster.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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