Jeanette Mammie Thomas

Brief Life History of Jeanette Mammie

When Jeanette Mammie Thomas was born on 1 January 1920, in Clairfield, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States, her father, Henry Slater Thomas, was 21 and her mother, Margaret Elsie Teague, was 17. She married Arthur Parks on 18 December 1936, in Fonde, Bell, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Civil District 9, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years and Claiborne, Tennessee, United States for about 1 years. She died on 1 January 1991, in Jellico, Campbell, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in La Follette, Campbell, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

Arthur Parks
1915–1998
Jeanette Mammie Thomas
1920–1991
Marriage: 18 December 1936
Rev Elmer Parks
1938–2018
Billy W Parks
1941–1993

Sources (10)

  • Jeanette Parks, "United States Census, 1950"
  • Jeanette Thomas, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
  • Jeanette M Parks, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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World Events (8)

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

1931 · The Parthenon is Built

In 1931, a full scale replica of the Parthenon in Greece was erected in Nashville, Tennessee. The Parthenon was meant to be temporary, but became a permanent part of Tennessee culture. It also has a replica of the statue of Athena the Goddess of War.At the same time a city over Memphis built  giant pyramid replica to remind everyone what the city was named for. 

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

English, French, Walloon, Breton, German, Dutch, Flemish, Danish, Greek, West Indian (mainly Haiti and Jamaica), and African (mainly Tanzania and Nigeria): from the personal name Thomas, of Biblical (New Testament) origin, from Aramaic t’ōm’a, a byname meaning ‘twin’. It was borne by one of the disciples of Christ, known for his scepticism about Christ's resurrection (John 20:24–29). The Th- spelling is organic, the initial letter of the name in the Greek New Testament being a theta. The English pronunciation as t rather than th- is the result of French influence from an early date. In Britain, the surname is widely distributed throughout the country, but especially common in Wales and Cornwall. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed many cognates from other languages (e.g. Assyrian/Chaldean or Arabic Toma and Tuma , Albanian Toma and Thoma , and Slavic surnames listed in 3 below), and their patronymics and other derivatives (e.g. Polish Tomaszewski and Slovenian Tomažič; see Tomazic ). In France, this surname is most common in the Vosges and Brittany. The name Thomas is also found among Christians in southern India (compare Machan , Mammen , and Oommen ), but since South Indians traditionally do not have hereditary surnames, the southern Indian name was in most cases registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US. This surname is also very common among African Americans.

Native American (e.g. Navajo): adoption of the English personal name Thomas (see 1 above) as a surname.

Germanized or Americanized form of Polish Tomas , Tomasz, and Tomaś, Sorbian Tomaš (see also 4 below), Croatian Tomaš and Tomas , Slovenian Tomaš and Tomaž, Czech and Slovak Tomáš, all meaning ‘Thomas’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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