Elishia Lea Thigpen

Brief Life History of Elishia Lea

When Elishia Lea Thigpen was born on 12 May 1895, in Louisiana, United States, her father, Fielding Thigpen, was 36 and her mother, Linny Ann Manning, was 42. She married John Solomon Goldman on 23 January 1914, in White Sand, Pearl River, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Ward, Allen, Louisiana, United States in 1900 and Beat 2, Pearl River, Mississippi, United States for about 20 years. She died in February 1978, in Mississippi, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Poplarville, Pearl River, Mississippi, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Solomon Goldman
1887–1970
Elishia Lea Thigpen
1895–1978
Marriage: 23 January 1914
Ted Goleman
1915–1992
Cynthia Goleman
1916–1998
Glennie G Goleman
1918–2008
Shirley Goleman
1921–2014
John Warren Goleman
1926–2006

Sources (13)

  • Lea Golman in household of John S Golman, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Miss Leah Thigpen, "Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979"
  • Elishia Lea Thigpen Goleman, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

1907 · Boll Weevil Destroys Most the Cotton Crop

When the boll weevil threatened most the Mississippi Delta, it put the state’s cotton crop in peril. By the time the boll weevil reached Mississippi it had already destroyed four million bales of cotton. This added up to $238 million at the time or about 6 billion in present day. The boll weevil depends on cotton for every stage of its life.

1917

U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.

Name Meaning

Probably an altered form of English Thickpenny, which belonged to a late 15th-century merchant family based in Plymouth (Devon) and in York. In the 16th and 17th centuries it is recorded as a gentry surname in Rutland, Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, East Anglia, and Ireland. The surname appears to be a nickname ‘thick penny’ but the motivation is obscure, and it may be an altered form, by folk etymology, of some other name. In North America and Ireland there is a close family relationship between persons named Thigpen and those named Phippen , but if the two names are linguistically related, it is more likely that Phippen would be a simplified pronunciation of Thickpenny alias Thigpen than the other way round.

History: The first bearer of the surname Thigpen in North America was apparently James Thigpen, born 1627 in Shannon, Ireland, died 1679 in NC.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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