Effie C. Thompson

Brief Life History of Effie C.

When Effie C. Thompson was born on 27 October 1894, in Park River, Walsh, North Dakota, United States, her father, Arne Thompson Lilletroen, was 43 and her mother, Dorothea Monson, was 39. She married Ralph Leo Gould on 16 September 1943, in Kalispell, Flathead, Montana, United States. She lived in United States in 1949 and Flathead, Montana, United States in 1950. She died on 14 May 1978, in Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, British Colonial America, at the age of 83, and was buried in Bend, Deschutes, Oregon, United States.

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Ralph Leo Gould
1894–1975
Effie C. Thompson
1894–1978
Marriage: 16 September 1943

Sources (12)

  • Effie C Gould, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Effie C. Thompson, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950"
  • Effie Thompson Gould, "North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994"

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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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