When Esther Mona Kent was born on 22 April 1901, in Carter, Missouri, United States, her father, Wiley Pope Kent, was 42 and her mother, Margaret Melvina Shepherd, was 33. She married Elijah Thompson on 4 December 1917, in Reynolds, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. She died on 5 January 1959, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
English and Irish: habitational name from the county of Kent. The surname is also established in Ireland, where English bearers of this name settled in Meath, in the 13th century. The name has been Gaelicized as Ceannt.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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