When William Harvey Oliphant was born on 11 January 1855, in Greene, Indiana, United States, his father, James Harvey Oliphant, was 31 and his mother, Catherine Mary Mock, was 27. He married Martha Ann King on 17 January 1872, in Monroe, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Indian Creek Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States in 1880 and Jackson Township, Greene, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 7 December 1924, in Owensburg, Jackson Township, Greene, Indiana, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Owensburg Cemetery, Owensburg, Jackson Township, Greene, Indiana, United States.
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With help from France and Great Britain, Spain captures lands in Mexico, including Veracruz, to collect interest on debts Mexico refuses to pay.
Oldest grave seen in the memorials list
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English (London) and Scottish (Fife): from Old French olifard or olifant, of uncertain meaning. It has been suggested that this might be a derivative of Old French olif ‘olive’ + the pejorative suffix -ard ‘derisive nickname for one who preferred an olive branch to more martial weapons’; it may have denoted a man twisted like an olive-tree. The variant Olifant may have resulted from the substitution in Old Norman French of the sequence l-r by l-n, leading to a false association with Old French olifant ‘elephant’. This heraldic beast appears in the Scottish family's coats of arms. Branches of the Anglo-Norman family owned lands in both England and Scotland. The surname is now chiefly Scottish.
English: possibly a topographic name from residence at an inn known as the Olyphaunt or ‘elephant’, though whether this gave rise to a hereditary surname is unknown.
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