Agnes J Helm

Brief Life History of Agnes J

When Agnes J Helm was born on 11 August 1876, in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States, her father, William Helm, was 39 and her mother, Francis "Fannie" Sawyer Newman, was 35. She married Montgomery Thomas in 1898. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Fresno, California, United States in 1880. She died on 28 June 1965, in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Fresno, Fresno, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Montgomery Thomas
1873–
Agnes J Helm
1876–1965
Marriage: 1898
Robert Montgomery Thomas
1899–1964
Helen M. Thomas
1902–
Elisabeth Thomas
1904–

Sources (16)

  • Agnes Helen, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Agnes H Thomas, "California, Death Index, 1940-1997"
  • Agnes Inez Helm in entry for Montgomery Thomas, "California Marriages, 1850-1945"

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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.

1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station

Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

Name Meaning

English (Lancashire): from Old English helm ‘protection, covering’ (in later northern English dialects, ‘cattle shelter, barn’). The name may be topographic, for someone who lived by or worked at a barn, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Helme in Meltham (Yorkshire).

English: variant of Elm with prosthetic H-.

German, and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a maker of helmets, from Middle High German, Middle Dutch helm.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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