Brief Life History of Dock Layton
When Dock Layton Golden was born on 3 August 1879, in Arkansas, United States, his father, William Turner Golden, was 42 and his mother, Myra Miami Hill, was 41. He married Caledonia Palestine "Callie" Howerton on 22 December 1897, in Pike, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Self Creek Township, Pike, Arkansas, United States in 1920 and Antoine, Pike, Arkansas, United States in 1930. He died on 4 March 1949, in Daisy, Pike, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Mount Joy Cemetery, Daisy, Pike, Arkansas, United States.
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- Doc L Golden, "United States Census, 1940"
- D L Golden, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
- Dock Laton Golden, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded
The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English golden ‘made of gold; golden in color’ (from Old English gylden), generally a nickname for someone with golden-blond hair.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Ualghairg (see McGoldrick ).
Irish: adopted for Ó Gabhláin, ‘descendant of Gabhlán’, a personal name based on a diminutive of gabhal ‘fork’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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