Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Childs was born on 14 April 1838, in Mississippi, United States, his father, William P. Childs, was 58 and his mother, Mary Lyle, was 38. He married Mary Elizabeth Orr on 10 September 1872, in Gila Bend, Maricopa, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Ajo, Pima, Arizona, United States in 1900 and Los Angeles, California, United States in 1910. He died on 19 January 1912, in Florence, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Thomas Childs, "United States Census, 1910"
- Thomas Childs, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Thomas Childs, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
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1848 · The California Gold Rush
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
1855
Historical Boundaries 1853: Gadsen Purchase, United States 1854: New Mexico Territory, United States 1855: Dona Ana, New Mexico Territory, United States 1860: Arizona, New Mexico Territory, United States 1862: Dona Ana, New Mexico Territory, United States 1863: Arizona, New Mexico Territory, United States 1863: Arizona Territory, United States 1864: Pima, Arizona Territory, United States 1912: Pima, Arizona, United States
1861
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Child , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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