Brief Life History of James Ralph
When James Ralph Fryman was born on 10 November 1916, in Texas, United States, his father, James Fulton Fryman, was 22 and his mother, Lillian Beatrice Slay, was 19. He married Mary Bill Stovall on 23 June 1941. He lived in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States in 1935 and Justice Precinct 1, Harris, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 16 October 2003, in Texas, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Earthman Resthaven Cemetery, Houston, Harris, Texas, United States.
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Sources (10)
- Rolf Friman, "United States Census, 1920"
- James R Fryman, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Ralph Fryman in entry for Mrs Lillian Virginia Or Peggy Fryman Wilke, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
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World Events (8)
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1929 · The Great Depression Arrives
Like most of the country, the economy of Texas suffered greatly after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of city workers were suddenly unemployed and relied on a variety of government relief programs; unemployed Mexican citizens were required to take one-way bus tickets to Mexico.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of Swiss German Frymann or German Freimann (see Freiman ), and possibly also of the Dutch cognate Vrijman.
English: from Middle English friman ‘free-born man’ (Old English frīomann, frīgmann), symonymous with Freeman 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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