Frances Alma Hurst

Female26 September 1920–6 August 2005

Brief Life History of Frances Alma

When Frances Alma Hurst was born on 26 September 1920, in Enterprise, Coffee, Alabama, United States, her father, T. Kenneth Hurst, was 23 and her mother, Dora Alma Parrish, was 28. She married Leo Sammons on 3 October 1939, in Election Precinct 29 Alabama City, Etowah, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Geneva, Geneva, Alabama, United States in 1940 and Escambia, Florida, United States in 1950. She died on 6 August 2005, at the age of 84, and was buried in Pensacola, Escambia, Florida, United States.

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Family Time Line

Leo Sammons
1915–1980
Frances Alma Hurst
1920–2005
Marriage: 3 October 1939
Charles Arthur Sammons
1950–2012

Sources (13)

  • Frances A Sammons, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Frances Hurst, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  • Frances H Sammons, "United States Social Security Death Index"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    3 October 1939Election Precinct 29 Alabama City, Etowah, Alabama, United States

    • Children (1)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (1)

    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.

    1941 · Florida Involvement in World War II

    Age 21

    Similar to the first World War, Florida's location and temperature served as an ideal location for military training; in fact, Florida would end up having 172 military installations. As a result of World War II growth, Camp Blanding became the fourth largest city in Florida, capable of housing over 55,000 soldiers. Many Floridians sacrificed their lives among other Americans to win the war; it's estimated that about 3,000 U.S. deaths were from Floridian troops.

    1944 · The G.I Bill

    Age 24

    The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.

    Name Meaning

    English (Lancashire): topographic name for someone who lived near a wood or wooded hill, from Middle English hirst(e), herst(e), hurst(e) (Old English hyrst) or a habitational name from any of the places so called, such as Hurst Green (in Mitton, Lancashire), Hirst (Northumberland), Hurst (Berkshire, Kent, Warwickshire), Hurstpierpoint (Sussex), or Hirst in Longwood (Yorkshire).

    Irish: re-Anglicized form of de Horsaigh, the Gaelicized form of the English habitational name Horsey , established in Ireland since the 13th century.

    German and Swiss German (also Hürst): topographic name from Middle High German hurst ‘woodland, thicket’; or a habitational name from a place so named in Westphalia.

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

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