Vance Henton Stevens

Brief Life History of Vance Henton

When Vance Henton Stevens was born on 28 March 1902, in Nicholls, Coffee, Georgia, United States, his father, Charlie Ellis Stevens, was 28 and his mother, Edith Brown, was 28. He married Sarah Odelle Burks on 4 December 1940, in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States. He lived in District 1644, Clayton, Georgia, United States in 1950 and Clayton, Georgia, United States in 1987. He died on 28 July 1987, in Jonesboro, Clayton, Georgia, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Forest Grove Cemetery, Forest Park, Clayton, Georgia, United States.

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Vance Henton Stevens
1902–1987
Sarah Odelle Burks
1905–1983
Marriage: 4 December 1940

Sources (8)

  • Vance H Stevens, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Vance Hinton Stevens, "Georgia World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
  • Vance H Stevens, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (8)

1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor

A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

1906 · The Atlanta Race Riot

The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 occurred on the evening of September 22 through September 24. A newspaper reported the rapes of four white women by African American men. Fueled by pre-existing racial tensions, these reports enraged white men who then arranged gangs to attack African American men. Over the next few days, several thousand white men joined in and in the end, 26 people were killed and many were injured.

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

English (London), Flemish, Dutch, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Steven . The surname of Flemish origin is also found in the Walloon part of Belgium. In North America, the English form of the surname has also absorbed some like-sounding Jewish names and various other European cognates, e.g. Greek Stefanidis , Serbian Stevanović (see Stevanovic ), Slovenian and Slovak Štefanič (see Stefanic ).

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

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