When Bertha Alice Heap was born on 23 December 1880, in Cedar Grove, Highland Township, Franklin, Indiana, United States, her father, Levi Louis Heap, was 32 and her mother, Eliza Jane Hutchinson, was 28. She married James M Clark on 3 February 1899, in Otoe, Nebraska, United States. She lived in Logan, Oklahoma, United States in 1900 and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States in 1910. She died on 14 July 1948, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Grand View Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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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.
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
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.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): usually a habitational name from Heap, a lost place in Bury (Lancashire), but sometimes also a topographic name for someone who lived by a small hill or rock pile, from Middle English hep, heip(e) ‘heap, pile’ (Old English hēap).
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