Brief Life History of Lena Eleanor
When Lena Eleanor Young Willliams Roane was born on 27 January 1898, in Van Buren, Crawford, Arkansas, United States, her father, Frank Young, was 26 and her mother, Ann Thurman, was 21. She married Rutherford Milburn Roane on 30 July 1929, in Marion, Crittenden, Arkansas, United States. She lived in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States in 1930 and Beat 1, Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States in 1950. She died on 3 July 1972, in Water Valley, Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Water Valley, Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States.
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- Lena Y Roane, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Lena E Young - Government record: Death record or certificate: birth-name: Lena E Young
- Lena Roane, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1904 · William H. Fuller Grows 70 Acres of Rice
Rice is one Arkansas leading crops, in 1904 William H. Fuller planted 70 acres of rice, this act is what started the making rice the leading crop in Arkansas.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English yong ‘young’ (Old English geong), used to distinguish a younger man from an older man bearing the same personal name (typically, father and son). In Middle English this name is often found with the Anglo-Norman French definite article, for example Robert le Yunge. In Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland this was widely used as an English equivalent of the Gaelic nickname Og ‘young’; see Ogg . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘young’ or similar, notably German Jung , Dutch Jong and De Jong , and French Lejeune and Lajeunesse .
Americanized form of Swedish Ljung: topographic or an ornamental name from ljung ‘(field of) heather’, or a habitational name from a placename containing this word, e.g. Ljungby.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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