Brief Life History of Martha Elizabeth
When Martha Elizabeth Farmer was born on 30 November 1887, in McClain, Oklahoma, United States, her father, Robert T Farmer, was 34 and her mother, Janette DeAnn Watson, was 28. She married Wiley Bess on 2 April 1905, in Dibble, McClain, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Rural, Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States in 1935 and Rush Springs Township, Grady, Oklahoma, United States for about 10 years. She died on 3 February 1978, at the age of 90, and was buried in Rush Springs, Grady, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Martha E Bess, "United States 1950 Census"
- Martha Lizzie Farmer, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
- Martha Elizabeth Farmer Bess, "Find A Grave Index"
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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
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1912 · The Girl Scouts
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English fermo(u)r, fermer and Anglo-Norman French fermer (Old French fermier, medieval Latin firmarius). The term denoted in the first instance a tax farmer, one who undertook the collection of taxes, revenues, and imposts, paying a fixed (Latin firmus) sum for the proceeds, and only secondarily someone who rented land for the purpose of cultivation; it was not applied to an owner of cultivated land before the 17th century.
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Mac an Scolóige ‘son of the husbandman’, a rare surname of northern and western Ireland.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered form Therrien . Compare Pharmer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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