John Hogue Thompson

Brief Life History of John Hogue

When John Hogue Thompson was born on 29 March 1868, in Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, United States, his father, William Courdon Thompson, was 31 and his mother, Sarah Jane Emery, was 31. He married Ann Laura McClish in 1884, in Argos, Walnut Township, Marshall, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Franklin Township, Kosciusko, Indiana, United States in 1880 and Green Township, Marshall, Indiana, United States for about 30 years. He died on 13 July 1930, in Plymouth, Marshall, Indiana, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Argos, Walnut Township, Marshall, Indiana, United States.

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John Hogue Thompson
1868–1930
Ann Laura McClish
1866–1924
Marriage: 1884
Julia Blanche Thompson
1885–1932
Emma Viola Thompson
1887–1970
Maude Thompson
1888–1890
Grace Leona Thompson
1890–1943
Ora Albert Thompson
1892–1938
Elmer Herbert Thompson
1894–1934
Reda Monoma Asher
1896–1941
Austin Gailand Thompson
1898–1983
Ruth Helen Thompson
1900–1956
William Coral Thompson
1903–1965
John Loren Thompson
1905–1971

Sources (43)

  • John Thompson, "United States Census, 1930"
  • John H. Thompson, "Find A Grave Index"
  • John H. Thompson in entry for Leroy Green, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"

World Events (8)

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.

1870 · Giving all the right to vote

The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

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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