Clyde Hayes Overstreet

Male10 May 1930–5 November 1998

Brief Life History of Clyde Hayes

When Clyde Hayes Overstreet was born on 10 May 1930, in Hickman, Smith, Tennessee, United States, his father, Horace Jordan Overstreet, was 34 and his mother, Docia Ann Dickens, was 37. He lived in Smith, Tennessee, United States in 1950 and Elmwood, Smith, Tennessee, United States in 1998. He died on 5 November 1998, in Murfreesboro, Rutherford, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Elmwood, Smith, Tennessee, United States.

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Clyde Hayes Overstreet
1930–1998
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Sources (9)

  • Clyde H Averstreet, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Clyde Hayes Overstreet, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Clyde Overstreet in entry for Jerry Craig Overstreet, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"

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World Events (8)

1931

Age 1

The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.

1931 · The Parthenon is Built

Age 1

In 1931, a full scale replica of the Parthenon in Greece was erected in Nashville, Tennessee. The Parthenon was meant to be temporary, but became a permanent part of Tennessee culture. It also has a replica of the statue of Athena the Goddess of War.At the same time a city over Memphis built  giant pyramid replica to remind everyone what the city was named for. 

1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War

Age 18

The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.

Name Meaning

Probably an altered form of Flemish Overstraete: topographic name for someone who lived ‘on the other side of the street’, or a habitational name from a place so named. This surname was brought to North America from England.

Possibly also an Americanized form of German Oberstrass: topographic name from a field so named, in particular one near Wermelskirchen in Rhineland.

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

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