When Thelma Clark Burgess was born on February 15, 1910, in Giles, Tennessee, her father, Ben Burgess, was 24, and her mother, Lena Young, was 22. She married Allen Eugene Hopkins on 20 Jan 1934 in Marshall, Tennessee, United States.[1][2][3] They had 2 sons. She died on November 28, 2003, in Sumner County, Tennessee, USA, at the age of 93[4] and was buried at the Mars Hill Cemetery in Cornersville, Marshall, Tennessee, United States.[5]
Residences
1910 - Civil District 17, Giles, Tennessee, United States[6]
1920 - Civil District 16, Giles, Tennessee, United States[7]
1930 - Civil District 16, Giles, Tennessee, United States[8]
1935 - Same Place
1940 - Civil District 4, Marshall, Tennessee, United States[9]
Sources
↑ "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKHQ-RV6K : 10 March 2021), Allen Hopkins and Thelma Burgess, 20 Jan 1934; citing Marshall, Tennessee, United States, Marriage, p. , Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 1,928,770.
↑ "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VN6N-VF9 : 4 December 2014), Allen Hopkins and Thelma Burgess, 20 Jan 1934; from "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2008); citing p. 354, Marshall, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.
↑ "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2HD-PG8K : 23 February 2021), Thelma B Hopkins in entry for Allen Eugene Hopkins, 8 Jul 1962; Death, Lewisburg, Marshall, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.
↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JR5F-T49 : 9 January 2021), Thelma B Hopkins, 28 Nov 2003; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGFG-BPH : accessed 31 March 2022), Thelma Burgess in household of Clark Burgess, Civil District 17, Giles, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 33, sheet 4A, family 51, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1500; FHL microfilm 1,375,513.
↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SP4M-38B : accessed 31 March 2022), Thelma Bungine in household of Clark Bungine, District 16, Giles, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 25, sheet 4A, line 21, family 62, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2248; FHL microfilm 2,341,982.
↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4ZC-M17 : 11 January 2021), Thelma Hopkins in household of Allen Hopkins, Civil District 4, Marshall, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 59-11, sheet 12B, line 56, family 269, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3919.
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