Lorene Thatcher Rooker

Brief Life History of Lorene Thatcher

When Lorene Thatcher Rooker was born on 6 December 1898, in Grayson, Texas, United States, her father, Anderson D Rooker, was 38 and her mother, Buannavista Grissom, was 31. She married August Tecumseh Harris on 4 December 1918, in Konawa, Seminole, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Seminole, Oklahoma, United States in 1910 and Econtuchka Township, Seminole, Oklahoma, United States for about 20 years. She died on 22 July 1968, in Seminole, Seminole, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Little Cemetery, Little, Seminole, Oklahoma, United States.

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Family Time Line

August Tecumseh Harris
1892–1983
Lorene Thatcher Rooker
1898–1968
Marriage: 4 December 1918
Kenneth Harris
1919–1921
August Tecumseh Harris Jr
1921–
James Allen Harris
1921–2012
Paul Keith Harris
1922–1992
Jerald Donald Harris
1926–2017
Bobby Gene Harris
1932–2006
Luann Harris
1932–2012

Sources (10)

  • Lorene T Harris, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Lorena Rooker, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
  • Lorene Harris, "United States Social Security Death Index"

World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1901 · Spindletop Oilfield Discovered

"Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful ""oil boom""."

1917

U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name for a spinner or a maker of distaffs, from an agent derivative of Middle English rok(ke) ‘distaff’ (see Rock ).

English: from an agent derivative of Middle English rok(ke) ‘rock’. The surname may be topographic, signifying someone who lived beside a prominent rock or rocky outcrop, or habitational, denoting someone who lived at a place so named. See Rock .

Dutch: metonymic occupational name for someone who smokes fish or meat.

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

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