Brief Life History of Theron Levi "Bob"
When Theron Levi "Bob" White was born on 25 March 1908, in Boone, Indiana, United States, his father, Frank White, was 23 and his mother, Edna Florence "Flossie" Powell, was 19. He had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Adalane A Smith. He lived in Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan, United States in 1930 and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States in 1950. He died on 7 July 1979, in Eureka Springs, Carroll, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Rose Hill Burial Park, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Theron L White, "United States 1950 Census"
- Theron L White, "Oklahoma, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
- Bob, "Find A Grave Index"
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1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
1910 · State Capital Moves to Oklahoma City
The state capital of Oklahoma moved from Guthrie to Oklahoma City on June 10, 1910.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English white, wit (Old English hwīt ‘white’), hence a nickname for someone with white hair or a pale complexion. In some cases it is perhaps from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Hwīta, a short form of names in Hwīt- (from hwīt ‘white’). The name may also be topographic, referring to someone who lived by a bend or curve in a river or road (from Old English wiht ‘bend’), the source of the placename of Great Whyte in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (compare Wight ). This name is also a variant of Wight . The surname White is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for any of several Irish and Scottish Gaelic names based on bán ‘white, fair’ (see Bain 1, McElwain ) or fionn ‘fair’ (see Finn 1). The English surname has been Gaelicized in Ireland as de Faoite.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘white’, for example German Weiss , French Blanc , Polish Białas (see Bialas ), Slovenian Belec , or any other synonymous Slavic surname beginning with Bel-, Bev-, Biel- or Bil-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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