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
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
1910–2001 Male
1915–2011 Female
Siblings (1)
1940–2015 Male
World Events (8)
1941
Age 1
1941 · The Four Freedoms
Age 1
1960
Age 20
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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