When Amos Ephraim Horst was born on 15 January 1921, in Clear Spring, Washington, Maryland, United States, his father, Ephraim Strite Horst, was 24 and his mother, Anna Mary Martin, was 23. He married Mary Ellen Martin on 27 December 1941, in Washington, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Antrim Township, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States in 1950 and Sarasota, Florida, United States in 2005. He died on 8 April 2005, in Sarasota, Sarasota, Florida, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Clear Spring Mennonite Church Cemetery, Clear Spring, Washington, Maryland, United States.
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Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Similar to the first World War, Florida's location and temperature served as an ideal location for military training; in fact, Florida would end up having 172 military installations. As a result of World War II growth, Camp Blanding became the fourth largest city in Florida, capable of housing over 55,000 soldiers. Many Floridians sacrificed their lives among other Americans to win the war; it's estimated that about 3,000 U.S. deaths were from Floridian troops.
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Phares, Alois, Armin, Fritz, Hans, Inge, Manfred, Monika, Reinhold.
North German and Dutch: topographic name from Middle Low German hurst, Middle Dutch horst ‘undergrowth, brushwood, wild place’. More specifically, the term was also used to denote a crow's or similar large bird's nest, a raised area in surrounding marshland, or an area of uncleared woodland, all of which meanings could have contributed to the surname. This surname is also a habitational name from any of numerous places called with this word. Compare Hurst .
History: As a name of German origin (see 1 above) the surname Horst is established among the American Mennonites. Their progenitors were the brothers Joseph, Michael, and Peter Horst, who came to PA in 1731 together with their widowed mother. Among their descendants the altered form Hurst is also found.
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