Brief Life History of Samuel Hood
When Samuel Hood Starkey was born on 12 July 1876, in San Marcos, Hays, Texas, United States, his father, Thomas Jefferson Starkey, was 22 and his mother, Hester Mahaley Cunningham, was 22. He married Emma Vogelsang on 23 December 1901. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Yavapai, Arizona, United States in 1935 and Supervisorial District 1, Yavapai, Arizona, United States in 1940. He died on 15 March 1967, in Dewey, Yavapai, Arizona, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Prescott, Yavapai, Arizona, United States.
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- Sam Starkey, "United States Census, 1940"
- Samuel Starkey, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
- Sam, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1881 · Construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway
Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, probably in Lancashire. This English surname has been established in Ireland (Dublin) since the 14th century.
English: variant of Starkin, itself perhaps from an unrecorded Old French personal name Starkin, a pet form of ancient Germanic names beginning in Stark- ‘strong’, such as Starc(w)ulf and Starcher, both of which appear in 1086 as names of Domesday Book tenants in East Anglia: Starcolf (Norfolk) and Starker (Suffolk). However, no medieval evidence for Starkin as a personal name or a surname has been found. An alternative possibility is a derivation from an unrecorded Middle English starking ‘strong one’ (see Stark ), but in the absence of any medieval evidence this is highly conjectural.
Altered form of German Starke , written thus to preserve the second syllable.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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