Thelma Elizabeth Easterling

Female13 October 1899–14 October 1974

Brief Life History of Thelma Elizabeth

When Thelma Elizabeth Easterling was born on 13 October 1899, in Walnut Springs, Bosque, Texas, United States, her father, Thomas Jefferson Easterling, was 26 and her mother, Mary Laurette Lucas, was 29. She lived in Hill, Texas, United States in 1910 and Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States for about 20 years. She died on 14 October 1974, at the age of 75.

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Virgil Dewey Brannan
1898–1976
Thelma Elizabeth Easterling
1899–1974

Sources (5)

  • Thelma Easterling in household of Mary L Easterling, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Thelma Elizabeth Easterling Brannan, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Thelma E Brannan in household of Virgil D Brannan, "United States Census, 1940"

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World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

Age 1

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1901 · Spindletop Oilfield Discovered

Age 2

"Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful ""oil boom""."

1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

Age 20

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

Name Meaning

Americanized form of North German Oesterling or Dutch Oosterling (see Osterling ), cognates of 2 below.

English: from Middle English ester(n) ‘pertaining to the east, eastern’ + the suffix -ling. The name was originally used to denote someone from eastern Germany or the Baltic coasts and was in use in England as early as 1253.

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

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