When Maj. George Strong Storrs was born on 21 January 1840, in Wetumpka, Elmore, Alabama, United States, his father, Seth Paddock Storrs, was 41 and his mother, Jane Ruth Bigelow, was 34. He married Eliza B Pratt on 20 March 1866, in Rockwall, Texas, United States. He lived in Waco, McLennan, Texas, United States in 1880 and Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States in 1920. He died on 5 July 1930, in Hutchins, Dallas, Texas, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Confederate Cemetery, Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1849: Milam, Texas, United States 1850: McLennan, Texas, United States
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English:
habitational name from one or more minor places in northern England and the North Midlands named with the singular or plural form of Middle English storth (Old Norse storth) ‘brushwood; young plantation’. In Lancashire these include Storrs (in Arkholme with Cawood), and in Yorkshire Storrs (in Bradfield), Storr Hill (in Wyke), Storthes Hall (near Huddersfield), and Dungworth Storrs (near Sheffield). In Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire the surname is associated with terrain on the western edge of Sherwood Forest.
variant of Storr , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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