Brief Life History of Ella A.
When Ella A. Thorpe was born on 19 October 1880, in Kentucky, United States, her father, John Samuel Thorpe, was 39 and her mother, Sarah Mildred Ramey, was 38. She married Otho Patterson on 18 August 1901, in Lyon, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Eddyville, Lyon, Kentucky, United States for about 20 years and Magisterial District 1 Eddyville, Lyon, Kentucky, United States in 1940. She died on 18 February 1962, in Lyon, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Liberty Cemetery, Eddyville, Lyon, Kentucky, United States.
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- Ella Patterson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ella A. Thorpe - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Ella A. Thorpe
- Ella Thorp, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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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.
1892 · The Radio is invented
Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English thorp(e) ‘village, hamlet, farmstead’ (Old Norse, Old English thorp ‘secondary settlement’). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in such a settlement, or habitational, for someone from any of several places called Thorp(e), which are most frequent in Yorkshire, the Midlands, and East Anglia. Compare Throop .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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