Edith Vinita Harrington

Brief Life History of Edith Vinita

When Edith Vinita Harrington was born on 17 April 1886, in McCune, Crawford, Kansas, United States, her father, Simeon H. Harrington, was 40 and her mother, Mary Ann Spangler, was 39. She married Francis Otto Hevel on 10 October 1906, in Oswego, Labette, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Osage Township, Crawford, Kansas, United States for about 15 years and Sheridan Township, Cherokee, Kansas, United States in 1920. She died on 20 November 1963, in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Oswego Cemetery, Oswego, Labette, Kansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Francis Otto Hevel
1882–1965
Edith Vinita Harrington
1886–1963
Marriage: 10 October 1906
Forest Williams Hevel
1907–1960
Karl Warren Hevel
1909–1966
Francis M. “Butch” Hevel
1911–2001
Alitha Fern Hevel
1915–1990

Sources (8)

  • Edith Hevel, "Kansas State Census, 1915"
  • Edith Harrington, "Kansas, Marriages, 1811-1911"
  • Edith Vinetta Harrington Walker, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

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.

1907

Oklahoma is the 46th state.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of the three places called Harrington (Cumberland, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire). The Cumberland placename derives from the Old English personal name Hæfer + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The Lincolnshire placename derives from the Old English personal name Hearra + Old English connective -ing- + tūn. The Northamptonshire derives from an Old English personal name Hǣthhere + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. Compare Herendeen .

Irish: adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hArrachtáin ‘descendant of Arrachtán’, a personal name from a diminutive of arrachtach ‘mighty, powerful’.

Irish: in Kerry, this name was adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hIongardail, later Ó hUrdáil, ‘descendant of Iongardal’, a personal name of uncertain origin.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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