Brief Life History of Crawford Lindsey
When Crawford Lindsey Thompson was born on 15 May 1859, in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Elzwick Thompson, was 40 and his mother, Nancy Brown, was 31. He married Nancy Koger on 16 December 1882, in Scott, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Lone Rock Township, Caddo, Oklahoma, United States in 1910 and Bernice, Delaware, Oklahoma, United States in 1930. He died on 26 December 1930, at the age of 71, and was buried in Olympus Cemetery, Grove, Delaware, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Crawford L Thompson in household of Witt Nickerson, "United States Census, 1930"
- Crofford S Thompson, "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002"
- Crawford Lindsley Thompson, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1861 · Texas Secedes from the United States
On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
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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