When Harold F. Walter was born on 31 March 1919, in Corydon, Harrison Township, Harrison, Indiana, United States, his father, Franklin Walter, was 29 and his mother, Jennie Merle Stonecipher, was 28. He had at least 1 son with Wilma Louise Eisenmenger. He lived in Harrison Township, Harrison, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 21 May 2005, in Sellersburg, Silver Creek Township, Clark, Indiana, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Kraft-Graceland Memorial Park, New Albany, Floyd, Indiana, United States.
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The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Women are given the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment.
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
English (of Norman origin), German, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, and Danish: from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements wald ‘rule’ + heri, hari ‘army’. This personal name was introduced into England both in the reign of Edward the Confessor and by the Normans (in the forms Walt(i)er, Waut(i)er). After the Norman Conquest it soon became one of the most popular personal names in Britain. Compare Walther .
Germanized or Americanized form of Czech, Slovak, Croatian, and Slovenian Valter and Czech Valtr: from the personal name Valter, Valtr, of ancient Germanic origin (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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