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.
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.
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