Brief Life History of Hester Iris
When Hester Iris Horton was born on 19 January 1914, in Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States, her father, Jesse Vivian Horton, was 22 and her mother, Hazel Hester Gifford, was 21. She married Johnny Harold Bennett on 9 May 1936, in Jackson, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Kearney, Clay, Missouri, United States for about 7 years. She died on 11 February 2003, in Liberty, Clay, Missouri, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Kearney, Clay, Missouri, United States.
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- Hester I Horton in household of Jesse V Horton, "Kansas State Census, 1925"
- Hester Horton, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Hester I Nelson, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1927 · Kansas Adopts a Flag
The flag of the State of Kansas was adopted on September 24, 1927. The flag was designed by Hazel Avery in 1925.
1938 · Electrification of Rural Kansas
Power was supplied to rural Kansas, which had been hit hard by the depression, in March 1938. Many farmers could not afford the $5 hookups for electricity. As a result, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Rural Electrification Act which provided loans to farmers who wanted electricity. Brown County became the first to receive service.
Name Meaning
English (Staffordshire and Warwickshire): habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as those in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Wiltshire, and Yorkshire. Most of the placenames derive from Old English horh or horu ‘dirt, filth’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, though some may have different origins, including Horton in Gloucestershire, which may derive from Old English heorot ‘hart, stag’ + tūn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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