Brief Life History of Temple Tollous
When Temple Tollous Thornton was born on 12 September 1893, in Pineland, Sabine, Texas, United States, his father, William Polk Thornton, was 50 and his mother, Mary Lodusky Skains, was 40. He had at least 4 sons and 3 daughters with Manlia Victoria Sanders. He lived in Beat 1, Hancock, Mississippi, United States in 1930 and Linkville, Klamath, Oregon, United States in 1950. He died on 25 July 1967, in Klamath Falls, Klamath, Oregon, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Eternal Hills Cemetery, Klamath Falls, Klamath, Oregon, United States.
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- Temple T Thornton, "United States Census, 1950"
- Legacy NFS Source: Temple Tollous Thornton Sr. - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Temple Tollous Thornton Sr.
- Temple Tullos Thornton, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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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.
1902
Historical Boundaries: 1902: Sabine, Texas, United States
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of numerous places throughout England and Scotland so called, from Old English thorn ‘thorn tree’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The placename is most frequent in northern England, especially Yorkshire, where there are at least 16 possible sources for the surname.
Irish: Anglicized (translated) form of Gaelic Mac Sceacháin ‘son of Sceachán’ (see Skehan ).
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Draighneáin ‘descendant of Draighneán’ (see Drennan ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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