Brief Life History of Opal Eliza
When Opal Eliza Hurley was born on 18 August 1909, in Johnsville, Erath, Texas, United States, her father, Charley Hurley, was 32 and her mother, Mildred Beatrice Phillips, was 21. She married Leo Melvin McCreary on 8 July 1936, in Dunlap, Harrison, Iowa, United States. She lived in Justice Precinct 8, Eastland, Texas, United States in 1920 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. She died on 25 January 2003, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 93.
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- Opal Hurley in household of Charley Hurley, "United States Census, 1910"
- Opal Eliza Hurley, "Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935"
- Opal E Mccreary, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1910 · The BSA is Made
Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.
1910 · Angel Island Serves Immigrants
Angel Island served as a western entry point for hundreds of thousands of U.S. immigrants, mainly from China, from 1910 to 1940.
1934 · Alcatraz Island Becomes Federal Penitentiary
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Hurley (Somerset, Warwickshire, Berkshire). The Warwickshire and Berkshire placenames derive from Old English hyrne ‘angle, corner’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The Somerset placename, for a minor place near Crowcombe, may have the same origin but this cannot be certain due to a lack of medieval forms.
Irish (Munster): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUrthuile ‘descendant of Urthuile’, a personal name possibly meaning ‘great flood’.
Irish: variant of Herlihy .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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