Jessie E Thompson

Brief Life History of Jessie E

When Jessie E Thompson was born on 22 November 1915, in Cameron, Texas, United States, her father, Frederick Alexander Thompson Sr, was 25 and her mother, Lillie Pearl Oaks, was 20. She lived in Pea Ridge, Benton, Arkansas, United States in 2006. She died on 8 August 2006, in Bentonville, Benton, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Seligman Cemetery, Sugar Creek Township, Barry, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Frederick Alexander Thompson Sr
1890–1969
Lillie Pearl Oaks
1895–1979
William F Thompson
1914–1998
Jessie E Thompson
1915–2006
Mildred B Thompson
1917–2001
George Thompson
1919–1930
Matilda Martha Thompson
1921–1927
Frances Sue Thompson
1922–2006
Fred Alexander Thompson Jr
1924–1999
Anna Mae "Annie" Thompson
1927–1993

Sources (5)

  • Jessie Thompson in household of Fred Thompson, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Jessie Voorhies, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
  • Jessie Thompson in household of Fred Thompson, "United States Census, 1930"

World Events (8)

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

1929 · The Great Depression Arrives

Like most of the country, the economy of Texas suffered greatly after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of city workers were suddenly unemployed and relied on a variety of government relief programs; unemployed Mexican citizens were required to take one-way bus tickets to Mexico.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

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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