Brief Life History of Thomas McCullough
When Thomas McCullough Boughton was born on 1 July 1895, in Neosho Falls, Woodson, Kansas, United States, his father, Charles Boughton, was 45 and his mother, Mary Ella McCullough, was 30. He married Evelyn E. Ebert on 23 November 1927, in Buchanan, Missouri, United States. He lived in Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, United States in 1930 and Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States in 1940. He died in December 1988, at the age of 93, and was buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States.
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- Thos Boughton in household of Chas Boughton, "Kansas State Census, 1915"
- Thomas M Boughton, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Thomas Mccullough Boughton, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places so named. Those in Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire), Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, and Nottinghamshire are named from Old English bucc ‘goat’ or the Old English byname Bucca with the same meaning (see Buck 1) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’; those in Cheshire and Kent are named with Old English bōc ‘beech’ + tūn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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