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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- Edith Hevel, "Kansas State Census, 1915"
- Edith Harrington, "Kansas, Marriages, 1811-1911"
- Edith Vinetta Harrington Walker, "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.
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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