Herman Elmore Tolin
1929–1985 (Age 56)
Atmore, Escambia, Alabama, United States
The Life of Herman Elmore
When Herman Elmore Tolin was born on 26 April 1929, his father, Thomas W Tolin, was 46 and his mother, Ruby Mae Porter, was 34. He died on 18 September 1985, in Atmore, Escambia, Alabama, United States, at the age of 56.
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Family Time Line
Thomas W Tolin
1882–1946
Ruby Mae Porter
1895–1946
Lottie Mae Tolin Davis
1924–1944
Ruby Elizabeth Tolin
1925–2007
Maudie Tolin
1927–
Herman Elmore Tolin
1929–1985
Thomas Tolin
1929–
Ellen (Mary) Tolin
1931–
Leona Tolin
1934–
Odis Leon Byrd Tolin
1939–2011
Parents & Siblings
1882–1946Male
1895–1946Female
siblings
(8)
- Lottie Mae Tolin Davis
1924–1944Female
- Ruby Elizabeth Tolin
1925–2007Female
- Maudie Tolin
1927–Female
1929–1985Male
- Thomas Tolin
1929–Male
+3 More Children
World Events (8)
1931
Age 2
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
1941 · The Tuskegee Airmen
Age 12
The first African-American military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps were known as the Tuskegee Airmen, after the Tuskegee Army Air Field where they trained. The group flew over 15,000 individual sorties during World War II which earned them over 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses.
1944 · The G.I Bill
Age 15
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
French: from a pet form of a Nordic personal name, Tolimer, composed of a hypocoristic form of compound names in Thor- ( see Thor ) + mar ‘famous’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Sources (1)
Herman Tolin, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
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