When Hettie Frances Lester was born on 13 October 1881, in Mercer, Kentucky, United States, her father, Thomas P Moore Lester, was 32 and her mother, Olive C Purdom, was 30. She married William Wheeler Gibson on 12 February 1902, in Mercer, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 7 daughters. She lived in Cornishville, Mercer, Kentucky, United States in 1920 and Harrodsburg, Mercer, Kentucky, United States in 1940. She died on 30 June 1947, in Harrodstown, Kentucky, Virginia, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Bruners Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery, Harrodstown, Kentucky, Virginia, United States.
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A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
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English: habitational name from Leicester, which is recorded as Ligeraceastre in the 10th century. The placename derives from an Old English folk name Legore ‘the dwellers by the river Legor (a lost river name)’ + Old English ceaster ‘city, Roman fortification’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Lestre in Normandy.
English and Scottish: variant of Lister .
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