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.
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.
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