When Persis Hilton Fulford was born on 23 May 1914, in Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, United States, her father, Joseph Walton Fulford, was 34 and her mother, Mary Persis Holman, was 35. She married Revilo Albert Bowen on 11 August 1932. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Election Precinct 10 Fairhope and Zundels, Baldwin, Alabama, United States in 1940 and Fairhope, Washington, Alabama, United States in 1981. She died on 22 March 2003, in Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Mount Zion Cemetery, Stapleton, Baldwin, Alabama, United States.
English:
habitational name from one or more of the numerous places so named in Devon, such as Fulford in Tiverton, Great Fulford in Dunsford, Fullaford in High Bray, Fulford Bridge in Shebbear, Fullaford in Sampford Courtenay, and Fullaford in Buckfastleigh.
habitational name from one or more of the various places so called elsewhere in England, such as Fulford (Staffordshire), Fulford in Kingston Saint Mary (Somerset), Gate Fulford and Water Fulford (both East Yorkshire), Fulfords Farm in Itchingfield (Sussex), and Fulforth in Witton Gilbert (Durham). All places in 1 above and 2 are named from Old English fūl ‘dirty, muddy’ + ford ‘ford’.
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