Brief Life History of Mourning Rebecca
When Mourning Rebecca Thomason was born on 12 March 1858, in Benton, Arkansas, United States, her father, Thomas Sanford Thomason, was 24 and her mother, Asberene Heaslet, was 20. She married Henry Pitchford McAllister on 4 September 1881, in Benton, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Round Prairie, Benton, Arkansas, United States in 1870 and Gentry, Missouri, United States in 1900. She died on 13 July 1898, in Gentry, Benton, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Decatur Cemetery, Decatur, Benton, Arkansas, United States.
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Sources (12)
- Mourny Thomason in household of Asber Thomason, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mourning Rebecca Thomason - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Mourning Rebecca Thomason
- M R Thomason, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
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1861
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Lancashire): from the Middle English personal name Thomas + -son ‘son of Thomas’.
Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Thomasson , a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form of Danish Thomasen and Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, or North German Thomassen , cognates of 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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