David Livingston Thurman Jr

4 January 1872–15 February 1957 (Age 85)
LaRue, Kentucky, United States

The Life Summary of David Livingston

When David Livingston Thurman Jr was born on 4 January 1872, in LaRue, Kentucky, United States, his father, David Livingston Thurman, was 50 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Walters, was 39. He married Ella Gore Muir on 11 March 1893, in Athertonville, LaRue, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died on 15 February 1957, in Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Riverview Cemetery, New Haven, Nelson, Kentucky, United States.

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Family Time Line

David Livingston Thurman Jr
1872–1957
Ella Gore Muir
1877–1904
Marriage: 11 March 1893
Lena V. Thurman
1893–1896
Emma Pearl Thurman
1896–1974
Carrie Lillian Thurman
1902–1945

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    11 March 1893Athertonville, LaRue, Kentucky, United States
    • Children

    (3)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (8)

    +3 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
    Age 3
    In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
    1892 · The Radio is invented
    Age 20
    Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
    1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
    Age 24
    A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

    Name Meaning

    (1997: 7539;2007: 16935; 2010: 23950)English (Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire): from the Middle English personal name T(h)urmund, Old Norse Thórmundr, composed of the elements Thórr, the name of the Norse god of thunder (see Thor ) + mundr ‘protection’. This personal name in was rare and Thurman may also have derived from the commoner Middle English personal name T(h)urmod, T(h)urmot by assimilation of the second theme -mod, -mot to the element -mund, which is found in several other compound personal names.Americanized form of German Thurmann: habitational name for someone from a place called Thur (see Thur ).

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Thor
    Thurmon
    Thurmond
    Turman
    Thorman

    Sources (26)

    • David L Thurman in household of D S Thurman, "United States Census, 1880"
    • D L Thurman, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
    • David L. Thurman in entry for Lillian Thurman, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965"

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