When Clarissa Thompson was born on 4 November 1847, in Conneaut Township, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Marcus Thompson, was 31 and her mother, Angeline Weaver, was 33. She married George Hayden Peck in 1869, in Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Mead Township, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and West Mead Township, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. She died on 4 June 1935, in Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 87.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
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.
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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