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1492: Columbus' fleet sets sail west.
1675: New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians.
1753: The first steam engine arrives in US colonies.
1796: The Continental Congress renames "United Colonies," "United States".
1830: Charles Durant, the first US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, NJ.
1850: California becomes the 31st state.
1850: Territories of New Mexico and Utah created.
1862: Civil War. Lee splits his army and sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry.
1863: Civil War. Battle of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee.
1906: William Lee Allen married Margaret Arnold in Johnson County, Arkansas.
1908: Orville Wright makes the first 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Virginia.
1912: J. Verdrines becomes the first to fly over 100 mph (107 mph).
1926: The National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) is created by Radio Corporation of America.
1942: WWII. The first bombing on continental US soil, Mount Emily Oregon.
1943: WWII: Italy surrenders to Allies.
1943: WWII: US, British & French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche).
1944: WWII: Allied forces liberate Luxembourg.
1944: WWII: US 113th cavalry passes Belgium-Dutch borders.
1945: WWII:Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies.
1945: The first "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay & taped into the log.
1950: The first use of TV laugh track-Hank McCune.
1971: 1,000 convicts riot & seize Attica, NY prison.
1977: The first TRS-80 computer sold.
1982: Conestoga 1, the firstt private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight.
1983: Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2).
1990: Bush & Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait.
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Allen Family History
(last update 6 Dec 2005)
Third Generation
( DOLLY2,
ABNER1)
Children of Dolly Garner and
Ethel Morris
1. FRANKLIN 'FRANK' LAFAYETTE MORRIS
[19608] was born November 1859 or
1860 in Arkansas. Franklin was a farmer. He married SARAH LOUIS WATSON
about 1886. She was the daughter of Jacob B. Watson and Susan Emeline
Rogers and was born about 1869 in Arkansas.
Children of FRANKLIN MORRIS and SARAH WATSON are:
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LAURA D. MORRIS, born about 1888
in Arkansas.
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* WYLIE DELMON MORRIS,
born about 1890 in Arkansas, He married Rosie Lee Jones.
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[first name unknown] MORRIS, born
about 1893 in Arkansas.
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ETHEL MORRIS, born about 1897 in
Arkansas.
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ANDY MORRIS, born about 1903 in
Arkansas, married LILLIAN [last name unknown] born about 1902-1905 in
Arkansas.
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HATTIE MORRIS, born about 1903 in
Arkansas, married L. F. CUMMINS, 17 February 1922, Cleveland County,
Arkansas; born about 1895.
Bibliography
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1870 Federal Census, AR, Dallas County, page 460b.
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1870 Federal Census, AR, Grant County, Madison Township, page 221b,
Ethel S. Morris.
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1880 Federal Census, AR, Grant County, Madison Township, page 225, A. A.
Garner.
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1880 Federal Census, AR, Cleveland County.
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1900 Federal Census, AR, Cleveland County, Kingsland Township, page 69b.
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1910 Federal Census, AR, Grant County, Madison Township, page 97d, Frank
Morris.
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1920 Federal Census, AR, Cleveland County, Saline Township, page 131b,
Frank Morris.
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1930 Federal Census, AR, Cleveland County, Saline Township, page 249b,
Frank Morris.
2. WILEY D. MORRIS
[12309] was
born April 1863 in Arkansas. He married MARY L. [last name unknown]
about 1888.
She was born January 1871 in Arkansas.
Children of WILEY and MARY GARNER are:
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IVA MORRIS,
b. September 1889, Arkansas.
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DEE
MORRIS (M), b, March 1892, Arkansas
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BEE
MORRIES (f), b. 1894, Arkansas.
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HELEN MORRIS, b. April 1897, Arkansas.
Bibliography
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1900
Federal Census, Madison Township, Grant County, Arkansas, page page 274b
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