Alma E. Thompson

Brief Life History of Alma E.

Alma E. Thompson was born in 1879, in Tullahoma, Coffee, Tennessee, United States. She lived in Civil District 13, Coffee, Tennessee, United States in 1900. She died in 1960, in Tullahoma, Coffee, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Tullahoma, Coffee, Tennessee, United States.

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James M. Muse
1860–1918
Alma E. Thompson
1879–1960

Sources (3)

  • Alma Muse in household of Jim Muse, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Alma E. Thompson, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Alma Muse in household of James M Muse, "United States Census, 1900"

World Events (8)

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.

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1901 · Assassination of Mckinley

President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.

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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