Brief Life History of Arlie Bell
When Arlie Bell Vink was born on 8 November 1896, in Stafford, Kansas, United States, his father, Folker Vink, was 28 and his mother, Mary Ann Beagley, was 24. He died on 3 August 1898, in his hometown, at the age of 1, and was buried in Stafford, Stafford, Kansas, United States.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Arlie Bell Vink - Individual or family possessions: Cemetery record or headstone: birth-name: Arlie Bell Vink
- Arlie Bell Vink, "Find A Grave Index"
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1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Dutch Pieter, Dirk, Gerrit, Hendrik, Henk, Machiel, Marinus.
Dutch: from vink ‘finch’, a metonymic occupational name for someone who catches finches or a nickname for a lively and cheerful person.
English (London): variant of Finch with southern Middle English voicing of the initial fricative /f/ to /v/.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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