When Anna Laura Knox was born on 21 June 1889, in Wilcox, Whitman, Washington, United States, her father, John Thomas Knox, was 28 and her mother, Emerette Fincher, was 35. She married Saylor Charles Dennis on 18 November 1908, in Colfax, Whitman, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Election Precinct 30 Guy, Whitman, Washington, United States in 1940 and Pullman, Whitman, Washington, United States in 1950. She died on 22 May 1976, in Clarkston, Asotin, Washington, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Colfax, Whitman, Washington, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries 1899: Kitsap, Washington, United States
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
Scottish and English (Northumberland and Durham): from a genitive or plural form of Old English cnocc ‘round-topped hill’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived on a hilltop, or a habitational name from any of the places in Scotland and northern England named with this element, now spelled Knock, in particular one in Renfrewshire.
Scottish: habitational name from any of the places in Scotland named with Gaelic cnoc ‘hill’, for example Knock in Renfrewshire. It is not possibly to disentangle this from the surname derived from the English etymon mentioned in 1 above.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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