Lee R Thompson

MaleSeptember 1873–1957

Brief Life History of Lee R

Lee R Thompson was born in September 1873, in Illinois, United States. He married Effie Sousan Lowrey on 24 July 1897, in Howell, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Carthage, Jasper, Missouri, United States in 1920 and Marion Township, Jasper, Missouri, United States in 1940. He died in 1957, at the age of 84, and was buried in Jasper, Jasper, Missouri, United States.

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Lee R Thompson
1873–1957
Effie Sousan Lowrey
1878–
Marriage: 24 July 1897
Winford Earl Thompson
1898–1962

Sources (9)

  • L R Thompson, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Lee R Thompson, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
  • Lee R. Thompson, "Find A Grave Index"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    24 July 1897Howell, Missouri, United States

    • Children (1)

    World Events (8)

    1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

    Age 2

    In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

    1877 · The First Workers Strike

    Age 4

    The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.

    1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

    Age 23

    A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

    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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