Almyra Allee Thompson

Brief Life History of Almyra Allee

When Almyra Allee Thompson was born about May 1856, in Missouri, United States, her father, Lewis C Thompson, was 25 and her mother, Mary Catherine Roberts, was 18. She married Otho O Hill on 3 December 1874, in Davis, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States in 1930 and Watts, Adair, Oklahoma, United States in 1935. She died on 24 June 1941, in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Tahlequah Cemetery, Tahlequah, Cherokee, Oklahoma, United States.

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Family Time Line

Otho O Hill
1853–
Almyra Allee Thompson
1856–1941
Marriage: 3 December 1874
Willard Ernest Hill
1881–1918
Lillian Olive Hill
1885–1980

Sources (10)

  • Myra Paage, "United States, Census, 1930"
  • Elmyra Hill, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
  • Almyra Allee Thompson Hill, "Find a Grave Index"

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World Events (8)

1857 · The State Capital moves to Des Moines

The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.

1861

Kansas is the 34th state

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

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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