Brief Life History of Tilford Sparkman
When Tilford Sparkman Denton was born on 14 June 1920, in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States, his father, Tilford Sebron Denton, was 37 and his mother, Martha Payne Saylor, was 25. He married Jean Elizabeth Gunness on 31 August 1950, in Clark, Nevada, United States. He lived in Blue Township, Jackson, Missouri, United States for about 10 years and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. He died on 20 January 2013, in Northridge, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Tilford Denton Jr. in household of Tilford P Denton, "United States Census, 1930"
- Tilford Denton, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Tilford S Denton, "Nevada County Marriages, 1862-1993"
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1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1923 · Amendment of Equal Rights
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.
1945 · Peace in a Post War World
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places so called. The vast majority, including those in Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, Dumfries, Durham, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northumberland, Oxfordshire, Sussex, and Yorkshire are named from Old English denu ‘valley’ (see Dean 1) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. An isolated example in Northamptonshire appears in the Domesday Book as Dodintone meaning ‘enclosure, settlement associated with Dodda or Dudda’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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