William Ford Hearding

Brief Life History of William Ford

When William Ford Hearding was born on 24 March 1898, in Trenton, Clinton, Illinois, United States, his father, Robert Lewis Hearding, was 31 and his mother, Alice Rouse, was 32. He married Pearlie Mae Easterling on 6 May 1920, in Pascagoula, Jackson, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Sugar Creek Township, Clinton, Illinois, United States in 1910. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 8 November 1964, in Mississippi, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Petal, Forrest, Mississippi, United States.

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William Ford Hearding
1898–1964
Pearlie Mae Easterling
1900–1979
Marriage: 6 May 1920
Iris Hearding
1922–1989
William Robert Hearding
1924–2004
Ruth Marie Hearding
1934–2022

Sources (10)

  • William Hearding in household of Robert Hearding, "United States Census, 1910"
  • W F Hearding, "Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979"
  • William Hearding, "United States Social Security Death Index"

World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

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

1907 · Boll Weevil Destroys Most the Cotton Crop

When the boll weevil threatened most the Mississippi Delta, it put the state’s cotton crop in peril. By the time the boll weevil reached Mississippi it had already destroyed four million bales of cotton. This added up to $238 million at the time or about 6 billion in present day. The boll weevil depends on cotton for every stage of its life.

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

English: from the Middle English personal name Harding (Old English Hearding, literally ‘the hard one’ a derivative of Old English heard ‘hard, harsh, strong, firm, brave’). The surname was first taken to Ireland in the 15th century, and more families of the name settled there 200 years later in Tipperary and surrounding counties.

North German and Dutch: patronymic from a short form of any of various ancient Germanic compound personal names beginning with hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’, or a habitational name from a farm named Harding, of the same etymology.

History: Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865–1923), the 29th president of the US, was born on a farm in OH, of English and Scottish stock on his father's side. Early American bearers of this very common name include Joseph Harding who died at Plymouth in 1633. His great-great grandson Seth was a naval officer during the American Revolution.

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

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