Brief Life History of Virginia Ellen
Virginia Ellen Freeman was born about 1882, in Arkansas, United States. She married Robert Elgin Killgore on 9 August 1905, in Carter, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Mesilla, Doña Ana, New Mexico, United States in 1920 and McClain, Oklahoma, United States in 1930. She died about 1937, in Washington, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Washington, McClain, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Jennie E Killgore in household of Robert E Killgore, "United States Census, 1910"
- Jennie Freeman, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
- Virginia Killgore, "Arizona Deaths, 1870-1951"
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World Events (8)
about 1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
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.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English freman, fremon ‘freeman, free-born man’ (Old English frēomann, frīgmann), used also occasionally as a personal name. As an African American surname it was in many cases adopted as a name denoting a man freed of slavery. See also Fryman and Free .
Irish: Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Ó Saoraidhe (see Seery ).
Americanized form of French Lafrenière (see Lafreniere ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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