Samuel Hamstra

Male1940–2015

Brief Life History of Samuel

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.

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Family Time Line

Sam G. Hamstra
1910–2001
Dorothy Ruth Abbring
1915–2011
Samuel Hamstra
1940–2015

Sources (7)

  • Samuel Hamstra in household of Sam Hamstra, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Sam Hamstra, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Sam G Hamstrajr, "United States Public Records, 1970-2009"

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (1)

World Events (8)

1941

Age 1

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

1941 · The Four Freedoms

Age 1

President Roosevelt spoke in front of Congress and gave a speech on what Freedoms everyone should be granted. First being the Freedom of Speech. Second, the freedom of Religion, Third, The Freedom from Want, and Fourth, the Freedom from Fear. Being a big deal, FDR didn't just say that all people should have these freedoms because Americans already expected these freedoms.

1960

Age 20

Squaw Valley, California, United States hosts Winter Olympic Games.

Name Meaning

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’.

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

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