Brief Life History of Serena Ellen
When Serena Ellen Lamb was born on 11 November 1860, in Lee, Iowa, United States, her father, Smith Lamb, was 28 and her mother, Martha Jane Cox, was 25. She married Octavius Barnes on 11 March 1884, in Lee, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Guthrie, Logan, Oklahoma, United States for about 10 years and Logan, Oklahoma, United States in 1920.
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- Sena E Barnes, "United States Census, 1920"
- Serena E. Lamb, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Serena Barnes in household of Octavious Barnes, "United States Census, 1900"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Lamb, a pet form of Lambert .
English: nickname for a meek and inoffensive person, from Middle English lamb, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of lambs. See also Lamm .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of the warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan (see Lane 3). MacLysaght comments: "The form Lamb(e), which results from a more than usually absurd pseudo-translation (uan ‘lamb’), is now much more numerous than O'Loan itself.".
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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