When Gerald Wright Whitehurst was born on 21 July 1917, in Elmore, Faribault, Minnesota, United States, his father, Enoch K Whitehurst, was 37 and his mother, Ruth Almeda Wright, was 32. He married Teresa Mae Greene on 5 November 1938, in Twin Falls, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Hill City Election Precinct, Camas, Idaho, United States in 1940 and Marion, Marion, Oregon, United States in 1950. He died on 24 October 2001, in Salem, Marion, Oregon, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Salem, Marion, Oregon, United States.
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Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
English (Staffordshire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire): habitational name from Whitehurst in Dilhorne (Staffordshire), named with Old English hwīt ‘white’ + hyrst ‘wood’, and sometimes from some other place with the same origin, such as Whithurst in Kirdford (Sussex).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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