Brief Life History of Robert H
When Robert H Tye was born on 1 May 1876, in Laurel, Kentucky, United States, his father, Palestine Napoleon Tye, was 43 and his mother, Susan Francis Duncan, was 41. He lived in Precinct 6 Newcomb, Laurel, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Magisterial District 2, Campbell, Kentucky, United States in 1930. He died on 5 May 1958, at the age of 82, and was buried in Steely Cemetery, Redbird, Whitley, Kentucky, United States.
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- Robert H Tye, "United States Census, 1930"
- Robert H Tye, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965"
- Robert H. Tye in entry for Mary Tye, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965"
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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.
1892 · The Radio is invented
Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
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 (mainly Kent): from Middle English tye, teghe, teye ‘enclosed piece of land; large area of common pasture’ (Old English tēag, tīege). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived on or near such a piece of land, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Teigh (Rutland) or Great, Little, and Marks Tey (Essex).
North German: from a short form, Tide, of the personal name Dietrich .
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 鄭, probably representing its Teochew, Hokkien, or Taiwanese pronunciation. See Zheng 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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