Brief Life History of Jesse Carson
When Jesse Carson Thompson was born on 7 January 1941, in Troy, Montgomery, North Carolina, United States, his father, Earl Marvin Thompson, was 44 and his mother, Callie Nancy Caroline Saunders, was 42. He married Jessie Blanche Parsons on 13 June 1966, in Montgomery, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in United States in 1949 and Troy Township, Montgomery, North Carolina, United States in 1950. He died on 8 August 2010, in Biscoe, Montgomery, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Lomax Memorial Baptist Church Cemetery, Uwharrie Township, Montgomery, North Carolina, United States.
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- Carson J Thompson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Jesse Carson Thompson, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Jessie C Thompson, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1942 · The Japanese American internment
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
1960
Squaw Valley, California, United States hosts Winter 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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