Brief Life History of RLena
RLena Tinsley was born on 29 February 1896, in Texas, United States. She had at least 1 daughter with Walter R Tinsley. She lived in Justice Precinct 6, Freestone, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 19 March 1980, in Teague, Freestone, Texas, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Antioch Cemetery, Teague, Freestone, Texas, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (5)
- Rlena Tinsley, "United States 1950 Census"
- Rlena Tinsley, "Find A Grave Index"
- Relena Tensley in household of Walter J Tensley, "United States Census, 1920"
Spouse and Children
World Events (8)
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.
1901 · Spindletop Oilfield Discovered
"Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful ""oil boom""."
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:
habitational name from a place in South Yorkshire near Rotherham, named in Old English with the genitive case of an unattested personal name Tynni + hlāw ‘hill’, ‘mound, barrow’. This surname is also found in Ulster.
habitational name from Tinsley Green in Worth (Sussex). The placename appears to derive from an unattested Old English personal name Tint + Old English lēah ‘wood, woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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