When Samuel Hamstra was born in 1940, in Indiana, United States, his father, Sam G. Hamstra, was 30 and his mother, Dorothy Ruth Abbring, was 25. He lived in Wheatfield Township, Jasper, Indiana, United States in 1998 and DeMotte, Keener Township, Jasper, Indiana, United States in 2006. He died in 2015, at the age of 75, and was buried in Holland Cemetery, DeMotte, Keener Township, Jasper, Indiana, United States.
West Frisian and Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived on a flood plain or land in a river bend, from Dutch ham ‘land in a river bend, flood plain’ + the suffix -stra from Old Frisian sittera ‘inhabitant of’.
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