Brief Life History of Clyde Leon
When Clyde Leon Hamm was born on 3 September 1898, in Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas, United States, his father, General Lee Hamm, was 35 and his mother, Leota Jane "Otie" Fields, was 37. He lived in Vernon, Wilbarger, Texas, United States for about 10 years and Justice Precinct 1, Wilbarger, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 16 March 1973, in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Wilbarger, Texas, United States.
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- Clyde Ham, "United States Census, 1930"
- Clyde Leon Hamm, "Texas, Births and Christenings, 1840-1981"
- Clyde Leon Ham, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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World Events (8)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1901 · Spindletop Oilfield Discovered
"Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful ""oil boom""."
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Name Meaning
English (London): topographic name for someone who lived at a place called from Middle English ham(me), hom(me) (Old English hamm), which meant ‘land in a river bend’, ‘land hemmed in by marshland’, ‘wet land hemmed in by higher ground’, ‘river meadow’, or ‘cultivated plot on the edge of woodland or moor’. The topographic term is found mainly in the South Midlands and southern England. There are many farmsteads with this name in Devon and Sussex, five more substantial settlements called Ham or Hamp in Somerset, as well as East and West Ham in Essex, and places called Ham in Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Surrey, and Wiltshire. This form of the surname is also comparatively frequent in Ireland.
German: topographic name for someone who lived on land in a river bend, Old High German ham (see 1 above).
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of numerous places called Hamm, mainly the city in Westphalia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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