Brief Life History of Sarah Virginia
When Sarah Virginia Thompson was born on 21 September 1789, in Virginia, United States, her father, Neal Thompson, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth Gentry, was 30. She married Thomas Stroud on 1 February 1812, in Davidson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Logan, Illinois, United States in 1850. She died on 20 February 1857, in Logan, Ohio, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Logan, Ohio, United States.
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- Sally Stroud in household of Thomas Stroud, "United States Census, 1850"
- Sally Thompson, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- The Thompsons of Turnbull Creek by Joseph Neal Luther, pg 7, 34
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World Events (8)
1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
1803
Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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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