Brief Life History of Ralph Simpson
When Ralph Simpson Thomas was born on 20 November 1860, in Coal Run, Washington, Ohio, United States, his father, John Buck "J.B." Thomas, was 50 and his mother, Hannah G Sprague, was 35. He married Luella Estella Lee in 1879. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States for about 15 years and Arizona, United States in 1969. He died on 9 October 1941, in Littleton, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Littleton, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States.
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- Ralph S Thomas, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ralph S. Thomas - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Ralph S. Thomas
- R S Thomas, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863
Arizona Territory
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
English, French, Walloon, Breton, German, Dutch, Flemish, Danish, Greek, West Indian (mainly Haiti and Jamaica), and African (mainly Tanzania and Nigeria): from the personal name Thomas, of Biblical (New Testament) origin, from Aramaic t’ōm’a, a byname meaning ‘twin’. It was borne by one of the disciples of Christ, known for his scepticism about Christ's resurrection (John 20:24–29). The Th- spelling is organic, the initial letter of the name in the Greek New Testament being a theta. The English pronunciation as t rather than th- is the result of French influence from an early date. In Britain, the surname is widely distributed throughout the country, but especially common in Wales and Cornwall. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed many cognates from other languages (e.g. Assyrian/Chaldean or Arabic Toma and Tuma , Albanian Toma and Thoma , and Slavic surnames listed in 3 below), and their patronymics and other derivatives (e.g. Polish Tomaszewski and Slovenian Tomažič; see Tomazic ). In France, this surname is most common in the Vosges and Brittany. The name Thomas is also found among Christians in southern India (compare Machan , Mammen , and Oommen ), but since South Indians traditionally do not have hereditary surnames, the southern Indian name was in most cases registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Native American (e.g. Navajo): adoption of the English personal name Thomas (see 1 above) as a surname.
Germanized or Americanized form of Polish Tomas , Tomasz, and Tomaś, Sorbian Tomaš (see also 4 below), Croatian Tomaš and Tomas , Slovenian Tomaš and Tomaž, Czech and Slovak Tomáš, all meaning ‘Thomas’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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