Brief Life History of Florence
When Florence Thompson was born on 15 March 1880, in Scipio, Millard, Utah, United States, her father, Daniel Thompson, was 45 and her mother, Lydia Ann Ivie, was 29. She married Thomas David Rees on 5 September 1900, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in United States in 1949 and Twin Falls, Idaho, United States in 1969. She died on 11 March 1971, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States.
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- Florence T Rees, "United States 1950 Census"
- Birth (1879 [sic])& baptism record: Florence Thompson (1880-1971) Scipio Ward, Utah
- Marriage record: Florence Thompson & Tomas D Rees (1900), "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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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.
1890
Idaho is the 43rd state.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
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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Glea Meng’s memory of Milton T. Rees and Florence Thompson
I went to Dr. Milton T. Rees when I was first married. My mother was extremely fond of him and really liked to serve him soup at our farmhouse. I had tried to get into Dr. Rees but he was always out …
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