Earl Hill Tew

Brief Life History of Earl Hill

When Earl Hill Tew was born on 4 May 1920, in Leslie, Custer, Idaho, United States, his father, Warren Snow Tew, was 29 and his mother, Vera Elva Hill, was 27. He married Beth Luie Johnson on 9 July 1942, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He immigrated to World in 1942 and lived in Shelley, Bingham, Idaho, United States for about 5 years. He died on 12 July 1993, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Fielding Memorial Park Cemetery, Bonneville, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Earl Hill Tew
1920–1993
Beth Luie Johnson
1919–2001
Marriage: 9 July 1942
Mark Earl Tew
1946–2019
David John Tew
1960–2009

Sources (77)

  • Earl H Tew, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Earl Hill Tew, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
  • Earl Hill Tew, "Idaho, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"

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World Events (8)

1921 · One of The Oldest Coasters in the World

Utah is home to one of the oldest coasters in the world that is still operational. The Roller Coaster, at Lagoon Amusement park, is listed number 5.

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

Welsh: nickname for a fat man, from tew ‘plump’.

English: habitational name from a place in Oxfordshire (Great, Little and Duns Tew), named with an Old English tīewe ‘row, lengthy object’, referring to the ridge on which these places are situated, or from tīwe ‘meeting place, court’. The surname has been established in Ireland since the 16th century.

Chinese: Teochew, Hokkien, and Taiwanese form of the surnames 張 (see Zhang 1) and 趙 (see Zhao 1).

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

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