Brief Life History of Rosy Mae
When Rosy Mae Thompson was born on 16 September 1900, in Cleveland, Oklahoma, United States, her father, Thomas Henry Thompson, was 31 and her mother, Willicher Lee Florence, was 24. She married Edward Earl Claunch on 6 January 1920, in Washington, McClain, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Colbert Township, McClain, Oklahoma, United States in 1910 and Wolf, Seminole, Oklahoma, United States in 1930. She died on 28 August 1948, in Saint Louis, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Purcell, McClain, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Rosie M Spear in household of William Spear, "United States Census, 1930"
- Rosie Thompson, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
- Rosy Mae Spiers, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
1907
Oklahoma is the 46th state.
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name T(h)om(me) (see Thom ) + -son ‘son of Tom’. Thomson is usually the Scottish form, that with the intrusive -p- being English. Both forms are common in Ireland. The surname Thompson is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Thomsen and of its Swedish cognate Thomsson. Compare Thomson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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