Selma Gertrude Anthony
1920–1998 (Age 77)
Lancaster, Virginia, United States
The Life of Selma Gertrude
When Selma Gertrude Anthony was born on 11 June 1920, in Lancaster, Virginia, United States, her father, James Henry Anthony, was 46 and her mother, Frances Gertrude Seawell, was 38. She died on 19 January 1998, in Volusia, Florida, United States, at the age of 77.
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Family Time Line
Selma Gertrude Anthony
1920–1998
Lawrence L Lewis
1915–2004
Spouse & Children
1920–1998Female
1915–2004Male
Parents & Siblings
1874–1961Male
1881–1954Female
siblings
(3)
1910–2001Female
1916–1982Male
1920–1998Female
World Events (8)
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Age 3
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1923 · Amendment of Equal Rights
Age 3
Is a proposed amendment to help guarantee equal legal rights for all citizens of the United States. Its main objective is to end legal distinctions between the two genders in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other legal matters. Even though it isn't the 28th Amendment yet, it has started conversations about the meaning of legal equality.
1941
Age 21
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
1 English: from the personal name Anthony, Latin Antonius. See also Anton . This, with its variants, cognates, and derivatives, is one of the commonest European personal names. Many of the European forms have been absorbed into this spelling as American family names; for the forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988 . Spellings with -h-, which first appear in English in the 16th century and in French (as Anthoine) at about the same time, are due to the erroneous belief that the name derives from Greek anthos ‘flower’. The popularity of the personal name in Christendom is largely due to the cult of the Egyptian hermit St. Anthony ( ad 251–356 ), who in his old age gathered a community of hermits around him, and for that reason is regarded by some as the founder of monasticism. It was further increased by the fame of St. Anthony of Padua ( 1195–1231 ), who long enjoyed a great popular cult and who is believed to help people find lost things.2 South Indian: this is only a given name in India, but has come to be used as a family name among Christians from South India in the U.S.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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