Susan Elizabeth Thompson

Brief Life History of Susan Elizabeth

When Susan Elizabeth Thompson was born on 25 January 1846, in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States, her father, Andrew Jackson Thompson, was 28 and her mother, Margaret Dixon Wilcox, was 22. She married Austin P Smith Jr on 30 August 1863, in Hopkins, Kentucky, United States. She lived in Underwood, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years and Magisterial District 1 Curtail, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States in 1880.

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Family Time Line

John Martin Smith
1838–1887
Susan Elizabeth Thompson
1846–
Marriage: 6 December 1865
Gabriel Smith
1866–1955
Artamisa Smith
1868–1918
James J. Smith
1869–1910
Mary E. Smith
1871–
Albert Hall Smith
1874–1945
Caroline Smith
1876–
Sallie Dedamie Smith
1877–1955
Richard Theodore Smith
1879–1935
Smith
1880–
John Burton Smith
1881–1939

Sources (14)

  • Susan E Thompson in household of George Harper, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Susan Elizabeth Thompson - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Susan Elizabeth Thompson
  • Elizabeth Thompson, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"

World Events (8)

1850 · 8th Most Populated State

According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

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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