Brief Life History of Eugene Clifford
When Eugene Clifford Turman was born on 20 September 1896, in Wayne, Tennessee, United States, his father, James Knox Polk Turman, was 51 and his mother, Mary Jane Dixon, was 35. He married Alta May Kilburn on 5 February 1922, in Wayne, Tennessee, United States. He lived in Civil District 8, Wayne, Tennessee, United States in 1910 and Noble, Cleveland, Oklahoma, United States in 1950. He died on 15 January 1967, in Chickasawba Hospital, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Bassett Cemetery, Bassett, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States.
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- Eugene Turman, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Eugene Clifford Turman - Published information: birth-name: Eugene Clifford Turman
- Clifford Turman, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
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World Events (8)
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1904 · William H. Fuller Grows 70 Acres of Rice
Rice is one Arkansas leading crops, in 1904 William H. Fuller planted 70 acres of rice, this act is what started the making rice the leading crop in Arkansas.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
Jewish (from Ukraine): nickname from Yiddish turman ‘inconstant man’. Compare Thurman .
Americanized form of German Thurmann (see Thurman ).
English: variant of Thurman . This form of the surname is very rare in Britain and Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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