Ruby Irene Thompson

Brief Life History of Ruby Irene

When Ruby Irene Thompson was born in February 1898, in Clermont, Sergeant Township, McKean, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Melvin Eugene Thompson, was 25 and her mother, Eliza Mae Or Mary Agens, was 27. She married Donald Alfred Campbell on 26 March 1921, in Port Allegany, McKean, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and Lemoyne, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States in 1950. She died in December 1983, in Camp Hill, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 85.

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Family Time Line

Donald Alfred Campbell
1887–1977
Ruby Irene Thompson
1898–1983
Marriage: 26 March 1921
Donna Campbell
1921–2003
Charles R Campbell
1927–

Sources (10)

  • Ruby Campbell, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Ruby Irene Thompson, "Pennsylvania Delayed Birth Records, 1941-1976"
  • Ruby Thompson in entry for Jack Messenr Dort and Donna Campbell, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"

World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1905 · The Movie Theater

The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in. 

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

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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