Vada Hurst

Brief Life History of Vada

When Vada Hurst was born on 23 January 1886, in Marshall Township, Clark, Illinois, United States, her father, Arnold Hurst, was 28 and her mother, Emma Jane Lowery, was 21. She had at least 1 son with Unknown Cline. She lived in Auburn Township, Clark, Illinois, United States in 1900.

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Family Time Line

Unknown Cline
Vada Hurst
1886–
Harold Cline
1907–

Sources (4)

  • Vada Hurst in household of Arnold Hurst, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Hurst, "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940"
  • Unknown, "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940"

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World Events (8)

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

1892 · The Chicago Canal

The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.

1917

U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.

Name Meaning

English (Lancashire): topographic name for someone who lived near a wood or wooded hill, from Middle English hirst(e), herst(e), hurst(e) (Old English hyrst) or a habitational name from any of the places so called, such as Hurst Green (in Mitton, Lancashire), Hirst (Northumberland), Hurst (Berkshire, Kent, Warwickshire), Hurstpierpoint (Sussex), or Hirst in Longwood (Yorkshire).

Irish: re-Anglicized form of de Horsaigh, the Gaelicized form of the English habitational name Horsey , established in Ireland since the 13th century.

German and Swiss German (also Hürst): topographic name from Middle High German hurst ‘woodland, thicket’; or a habitational name from a place so named in Westphalia.

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

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