When Viola Ann Eastham was born on 5 June 1852, in Monitor, Marion, Oregon, United States, her father, William French Eastham, was 28 and her mother, Delila Ann Cleaver, was 21. She married John Newton Thompson on 8 November 1871, in Marion, Marion, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Dayton, Columbia, Washington, United States in 1880 and McKay, Columbia, Washington, United States in 1900. She died on 22 September 1921, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Dayton, Mason, Washington, United States.
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Historical Information 1855: Walla Walla, Washington Territory, United States 1867: Wa Nca 4, Washington Territory, United States 1868: Walla Walla, Washington Territory, United States 1875: Columbia, Washington Territory, United States 1889: Columbia, Washington, United States
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English (Lancashire): habitational name from any of various places so named from Old English ēast ‘east’ + hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘river meadow, enclosure’. The name most often arises from Eastham (Cheshire), but sometimes from a place of the same name in Somerset or Worcestershire.
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