Brief Life History of Abrigail Elvina
When Abrigail Elvina Forbes was born on 7 June 1881, in Iowa, United States, her father, Edwin Albert Forbes, was 34 and her mother, Suldaney Lucinda Bennett, was 22. She married George Everett Powell on 28 January 1898, in Guthrie, Logan, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Rock, Nebraska, United States in 1935 and Kirkwood Election Precinct, Rock, Nebraska, United States in 1940. She died on 20 May 1953, in Denison, Crawford, Iowa, United States, at the age of 71.
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- Abbie E Powell in household of George Powell, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Abrigail Elvina Forbes - Memory of Someone: birth-name: Abrigail Elvina Forbes
- Elvira A Forbes, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
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1882
Historical Boundaries: 1882: Nebraska, United States 1883: Brown, Nebraska, United States 1888: Rock, Nebraska, United States
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
1907
Oklahoma is the 46th state.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Forbes in Tullynessle, Aberdeenshire, so named from Gaelic forba ‘field, district’ + the locative suffix -ais. The placename is pronounced in two syllables, with the stress on the second, and the surname until recently reflected this. Today, however, it is generally a monosyllable.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Firbhisigh ‘son of Fearbhisigh’, a personal name composed of elements meaning ‘man’ + ‘prosperity’.
History: A family of this name (see 2 above) in Connacht was famous for its traditional historians, compilers of the Book of Lecan.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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