Brief Life History of Thomas Wesley
When Thomas Wesley Leake was born on 3 April 1876, in Cartersville, Bartow, Georgia, United States, his father, Moses Asbury Leake, was 42 and his mother, Charlotte Lucinda Wofford, was 31. He married Carrie Hanson on 21 May 1898, in DeKalb, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 31 July 1922, in Vanoss, Pontotoc, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Vanoss, Pontotoc, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Thomas Leak, "United States Census, 1920"
- T W Leak, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
- Thomas Wesley Leak, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
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.
1889
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
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from Leake (Lincolnshire), East and West Leake (Nottinghamshire), Leek (Staffordshire), Leck (Lancashire), Leak (NorthYorkshire), or Leak Hall in Cumberworth (West Yorkshire). The placenames derive from Old English lece or Old Scandinavian lœkr, both meaning ‘brook’. See also Like .
possibly also a nickname from Middle English lek ‘leek’ (Old English lēac), perhaps for a grower or seller of leeks.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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