Brief Life History of Harriet Frances
When Harriet Frances Gooch was born on 19 July 1857, in Grayson, Texas, United States, her father, William Lawson Gooch, was 31 and her mother, Mary Jane Cox, was 18. She had at least 6 sons and 3 daughters with William Harvey Ray. She lived in Justice Precinct 7, Kaufman, Texas, United States in 1900 and Mabank, Kaufman, Texas, United States in 1910. She died on 19 June 1918, in Kaufman, Kaufman, Texas, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Henderson, Rusk, Republic of Texas.
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- H. F. Ray in household of W. H. Ray, "United States Census, 1880"
- Harriet Frances Ray, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
- Harriet Welch in entry for Anna Roberta Langer, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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World Events (8)
1861 · Texas Secedes from the United States
On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English (East Anglia): from the rare Middle English personal name Goche (also found as Joche). It was current in East Anglia from the early 12th to the early 13th centuries as a variant of Anglo-Norman French Go(s)ce, Jo(s)ce, a pet form of Old French Goscelin.
English: alternatively, a nickname from Anglo-Norman French gouge (from Latin gobio), the nominative form of Old French goujon (from Latin gobionem) ‘gudgeon’, perhaps for a gullible person.
Welsh: in southwestern England, possibly an Anglicized form of Welsh coch, goch ‘red(-haired)’, though the sound change is irregular. Compare Gough . It may also be a variant of Cornish and Welsh Couch , with the same meaning.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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