When George Franklin THOMASON was born on 3 January 1859, in Effingham, Effingham, Illinois, United States, his father, Cyrus Samuel Thomason, was 37 and his mother, Elizabeth M Parks, was 35. He married Minerva Martha SHELLEY on 25 December 1888, in Siloam Springs, Benton, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Hico, Benton, Arkansas, United States in 1930 and Hico Township, Benton, Arkansas, United States in 1940. He died on 11 January 1944, in Siloam Springs, Benton, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Siloam Springs, Benton, Arkansas, United States.
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Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total men fighting for a single state. Troops mainly fought in the Western side of the Appalachian Mountains, but a few regiments played important roles in the East side. Several thousand Illinoisians died during the war. No major battles were fought in the state, although several towns became sites for important supply depots and navy yards. Not everyone in the state supported the war and there were calls for secession in Southern Illinois several residents. However, the movement for secession soon died after the proposal was blocked.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
English (mainly Lancashire): from the Middle English personal name Thomas + -son ‘son of Thomas’.
Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Thomasson , a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form of Danish Thomasen and Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, or North German Thomassen , cognates of 1.
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