Brief Life History of Sam H
When Sam H Thurman was born on 4 June 1894, in Eastland, Eastland, Texas, United States, his father, Sam Houston Thurman, was 38 and his mother, Jo Anna Elizabeth Fade, was 31. He married Ida Mae McKinney on 22 December 1934, in Brewster, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Justice Precinct 1, Runnels, Texas, United States in 1910 and Nolan, Texas, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 3 September 1936, in Mogollon, Catron, New Mexico, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Coleman, Texas, United States.
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- Sam H Thurman, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Sam H Thurman - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Samuel Houston Thurman
- Sam Thurmon, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1901 · Spindletop Oilfield Discovered
"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""."
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Name Meaning
English (Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire): from the Middle English personal name T(h)urmund, Old Norse Thórmundr, composed of the elements Thórr, the name of the Norse god of thunder (see Thor ) + mundr ‘protection’. This personal name in was rare and Thurman may also have derived from the commoner Middle English personal name T(h)urmod, T(h)urmot by assimilation of the second theme -mod, -mot to the element -mund, which is found in several other compound personal names.
Americanized form of German Thurmann: habitational name for someone from a place called Thur (see Thur ).
Americanized form of German Thurmann: occupational name for a watchman, from Middle Low German torn(e)man (torn(e) ‘tower’) or Middle High German turn, turm ‘tower’ + man ‘man’. Compare Turman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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