Gerald Wright Whitehurst

Brief Life History of Gerald Wright

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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Family Time Line

Gerald Wright Whitehurst
1917–2001
Teresa Mae Greene
1920–2012
Marriage: 5 November 1938
Roxane Inez Whitehurst
1958–2012

Sources (26)

  • Gerald W Whitehurst, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Gerald Whitehurst, "Oregon, Marriage Records, 1906-1968"
  • Gerald Wright Whitehurst, "Idaho, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"

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World Events (8)

1918 · Attempting to Stop the War

To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.

1918 · Spanish Flu Kills Thousands in Oregon

The “Spanish Flu,” or the influenza pandemic, claimed the lives of over 50 million across the globe, 450,000 across the U.S., and thousands in Oregon during the years 1918 to 1919.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

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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