Allen G. Thurman

Brief Life History of Allen G.

When Allen G. Thurman was born about 1848, in Maury, Tennessee, United States, his father, James Jordan Thurmond, was 41 and his mother, Leah Dale Hudspeth, was 37. He died in 1910, at the age of 63.

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Family Time Line

James Jordan Thurmond
1808–1891
Leah Dale Hudspeth
1812–1889
Missouri A. Thurmond
1832–1886
Ellen Elvira Tennessee Thurmond
1833–1921
Alabama Thurman
1846–
Allen G. Thurman
1848–1910
Malinda J Thurmond
1850–
Thompson Glenn Thurmond
1834–1914
William Benjamin Thurmond
1838–1920
Sarah Glenn Thurmond
1841–1907
Mary America Thurman
1848–1915
Nancy Cindrilla Thurmond
1852–1927
William Jordan Thurmond
1857–1949

Sources (1)

  • Allen G Thurman in household of James J Thurman, "United States Census, 1850"

World Events (8)

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

Name Meaning

English (Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire): from the Middle English personal name T(h)urmund, Old Norse Thórmundr, composed of the elements Thórr, the name of the Norse god of thunder (see Thor ) + mundr ‘protection’. This personal name in was rare and Thurman may also have derived from the commoner Middle English personal name T(h)urmod, T(h)urmot by assimilation of the second theme -mod, -mot to the element -mund, which is found in several other compound personal names.

Americanized form of German Thurmann: habitational name for someone from a place called Thur (see Thur ).

Americanized form of German Thurmann: occupational name for a watchman, from Middle Low German torn(e)man (torn(e) ‘tower’) or Middle High German turn, turm ‘tower’ + man ‘man’. Compare Turman .

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

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