When Lillie Harris Land was born on 27 April 1886, in Greenville, Hunt, Texas, United States, her father, Thomas Franklin Land, was 51 and her mother, Ellen Rose Weaver, was 29. She married John Andrew Leonard on 6 August 1905, in Mineola, Wood, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in United States in 1949 and Atoka, Atoka, Oklahoma, United States in 1950. She died on 3 October 1975, in Jay, Delaware, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Spavinaw, Mayes, Oklahoma, United States.
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The Oklahoma Land Run on April 22, 1889, was the first land rush, or land opened for settlement on a first-come basis, opened to the Unassigned Lands. The land rush lured approximately 50,000 people, saddled with their fastest horses, looking to claim their piece of the newly available two million acres. The requirements included the settler to live and improve on their 160 acres for five years in order to receive the title. Choice land tempted people to hide out and get an early lead on their claim. These people became known as “sooners.” It is estimated that eleven thousand homesteads were claimed. Oklahoma Historical Society - Land Run of 1889
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.
English, German, and Dutch: topographic name from Old English, Middle Dutch land, Middle High German lant ‘land, territory’. This had more specialized senses in the Middle Ages, being used to denote the countryside as opposed to a town or an estate.
English: topographic name from Middle English launde ‘glade’ (Old French land), or a habitational name from a place called with this word, such as Launde in Leicestershire or Laund in Yorkshire.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of the three farmsteads so named, from Old Norse land ‘land, territory’ (see 1 above).
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