Brief Life History of Della
When Della GREENLEE was born on 10 July 1878, in Arkansas, United States, her father, Messer Green Greenlee, was 29 and her mother, Mattie E Babb, was 28. She married William Thomas LAYCOOK on 5 March 1899, in Faulkner, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Newton Township, Faulkner, Arkansas, United States in 1900 and Wilson, Pope, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years. She died on 19 December 1957, in Morrilton, Conway, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Atkins, Pope, Arkansas, United States.
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- Della Laycook in household of William Laycook, "United States Census, 1920"
- Della Greenlee, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
- Della Greenlee Laycook, "Find A Grave Index"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded
The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
Scottish (Lanarkshire): from Greenlea in Dumfriesshire, from Older Scots grēne ‘green’ + ley ‘piece of open country’, later ‘meadow’.
Scottish: alternatively, a variant of Greenlees with loss of final -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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