George Edwin Thompson

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Name George Edwin Thompson [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] Born 4 May 1886 Chariton, Missouri, USA [1, 3, 4, 5]
Gender Male Residence 1900 Clark City, Chariton, Missouri, USA [3]
Emigration 22 Jun 1920 Alberta, Canada Find-A-Grave 13845890 Reference Number 13984 Residence Linn, Missouri, USA [4]
Died 13 Nov 1983 Calgary, Alberta, Canada [5]
Buried Okotoks, Foothills, Alberta, Canada [5]
- Okotoks Cemetery
Person ID I13984 Thompson-Milligan Last Modified 12 Apr 2018
Father William David Thompson, b. 28 Feb 1852, Randolph, Missouri, USA , d. 6 May 1927, Marceline, Linn, Missouri, USA
(Age 75 years)
Relationship natural Mother Lydia Esther Runyen, b. 31 Mar 1853, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn, Indiana, USA , d. 23 Apr 1924, Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA
(Age 71 years)
Relationship natural Married 18 Oct 1875 Missouri, USA Family ID F848 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Jessie Isabel McMillian, b. 24 May 1899, Big Horn, Wyoming, USA , d. 14 Apr 1955, Alberta, Canada
(Age 55 years)
Married 26 Dec 1916 Alberta, Canada Divorced Mar 1944 Children 1. Alice Thompson, b. 24 Aug 1918, Alberta, Canada , d. 22 Jun 1973, Highway, Clinton, Kentucky, USA
(Age 54 years) [natural]
2. Charles Thompson, b. 24 Jun 1920, Alberta, Canada , d. 3 Jan 1997 (Age 76 years) [natural]
3. Elsie Marguerite Thompson, b. 10 Jan 1932, Alberta, Canada (Age 93 years) [natural]
4. Floyd Alvin Thompson, b. 2 Feb 1927, Alberta, Canada , d. 26 Apr 2014, Pincher Creek, Alberta, Canada
(Age 87 years) [natural]
5. Ida Flora Thompson, b. 9 Jan 1922, Alberta, Canada , d. 20 Dec 1998, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
(Age 76 years) [natural]
6. Isabell Thompson, b. 25 Mar 1924, Alberta, Canada , d. Oct 2005, Elora, Lincoln, Tennessee, USA
(Age 81 years) [natural]
7. Julia Eva Thompson, b. 6 Jul 1930, Alberta, Canada , d. 5 Dec 2006, Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada
(Age 76 years) [natural]
8. Rose Esther Thompson, b. 11 Oct 1925, Alberta, Canada , d. 1 Feb 1948, Alberta, Canada
(Age 22 years) [natural]
Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 Family ID F1563 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map = Link to Google Earth
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Photos Wayne, George and Clint Thompson George Edwin Thompson headstone
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Notes - George Edwin Thompson was born 4 May 1886 in Chariton County, Missouri. He left home in 1906 when he was about 20 and went to Burlington, Colorado and raised mules and built sod houses and took up homesteading. George married while in Colorado, but that marriage didn’t last. After seven years, about 1914, he went to Canada. He stayed with William Huxley McMillan and later married his daughter, Jessie Isabel McMillan on 26 December 1916.
George lived in Alberta, Canada. He was naturalized on 22 June 1920 and became a Canadian citizen.
Jessie had a son before her and George were married, Norman Stanley McMillan, who was born 25 May 1916 and died 4 October 1971 in a car accident. Norman had one child, Terry Jane.
George and Jessie had eight children together, all born in Big Prairie District, Alberta, Canada.
George returned to visit his brothers in the mid 1940’s and then made several trips back after that.
In March 1944, George and Jessie divorced. He died at Calgary, Alberta, Canada on 13 November 1983 and is buried in Okotoks Cemetery in High River, Alberta, Canada. He was 97 years old. Jessie died April 1955.
- George Edwin Thompson was born 4 May 1886 in Chariton County, Missouri. He left home in 1906 when he was about 20 and went to Burlington, Colorado and raised mules and built sod houses and took up homesteading. George married while in Colorado, but that marriage didn’t last. After seven years, about 1914, he went to Canada. He stayed with William Huxley McMillan and later married his daughter, Jessie Isabel McMillan on 26 December 1916.
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Sources - [S52] Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online.
Record for Jessie Isabella McMillan - [S105] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Ancestry Family Trees.
- [S112] 1900 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 18;), Year: 1900; Census Place: Clark, Chariton, Missouri; Roll: T623_847; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 33.
Birth date: May 1886
Birth place: Missouri
Residence date: 1900
Residence place: Clark Township, Chariton, Missouri - [S59] World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;), Database online. Registration Location: Linn County, Missouri; Roll: ; Draft Board: .
Record for George Edwin Thompson - [S482] Web: International, Find A Grave Index, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;), Database online.
Record for George Edwin Thompson
- [S52] Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online.