Brief Life History of Lena Leota
When Lena Leota Gosnell was born on 5 July 1865, in Carroll, Missouri, United States, her father, Nelson Gosnell, was 45 and her mother, Samantha H Barrick, was 38. She married William Henry Humphries Sr on 9 January 1890, in Carroll, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Hurricane Township, Carroll, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Lawton, Comanche, Oklahoma, United States for about 20 years. She died on 10 February 1955, in Osage Township, Benton, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 89.
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- Lena Gossnell in household of Nelson Gossnell, "United States Census, 1870"
- Mrs Lena Leota Humphries in the Arkansas, Death Certificates, 1914-1969
- Miss Lena Gasnell in entry for William H Humphries, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
1877 · Mississippi State Board of Health is Created
In 1877, the Mississippi State Board of Health was established to protect and advance health throughout the state. There are several different categories that fall under their watch such as disease, environment, injury, standard care, shots, keep records, and more.
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
Name Meaning
English:
perhaps a habitational name from Goss Hall, in Ash, Kent, recorded as Gosehale in 1210–12 and as Gosenhale (in a surname) in 1230. It may have denoted ‘Gosa's nook of land’ (Old English Gōsa, genitive singular Gōsan + halh, dative singular hale). By the early 1200s a member of this Kent family had apparently acquired property in Fritton, Suffolk, where the surname subsequently ramified in the later medieval and early modern periods.
apparently a habitational name from Gonsal, in Condover, Shropshire, but the place name is recorded in medieval documents only as a manorial surname (de Gosenhull) and it is possible that the place was named after a 13th-century owner who came from elsewhere. On heraldic grounds the Shrops family has been tentatively identified with the Suffolk/Kent family in 1 above. The early spellings of the Shrops name, however, consistently point to a derivation from Old English hyll ‘hill ’, thus ‘Gosa's hill’, not ‘Gosa' s nook of land’. While the possibility cannot be ruled out that Gosenhull was a local re-interpretation of Gosenhale, the linguistic and the heraldic evidence are not easily reconciled.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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