Thelma was born in North Carolina in 1908. She is the daughter of George Walter Hopper and Anna Eliza Gentry. In 1924 Thelma married James Ruffin Cardwell and together they were parents of two daughters. Thelma second married Ernest Grayson Thompson. She passed away in 1988 at age 80.
Sources
Ancestry.com. North Carolina, Birth Indexes, 1800-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original data: Register of Deeds. North Carolina Birth Indexes. Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina State Archives. Microfilm.
Year: 1910; Census Place: Huntsville, Rockingham, North Carolina; Roll: T624_1130; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 0152; FHL microfilm: 1375143;Source Information;Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZN5-46Z : accessed 19 November 2018), Thelma Harper in household of George W Harper, Madison, Rockingham, North Carolina, United States; citing ED 209, sheet 21A, line 31, family 337, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1317; FHL microfilm 1,821,317.
Year: 1930; Census Place: Madison, Rockingham, North Carolina; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 0011; FHL microfilm: 2341451;Source Information;Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.
Year: 1940; Census Place: Albemarle, Stanly, North Carolina; Roll: m-t0627-02975; Page: 18B; Enumeration District: 84-25;Source Information;Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Ancestry.com. North Carolina, Marriage Records, 1741-2011 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.Original data: North Carolina County Registers of Deeds. Microfilm. Record Group 048. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC.(James Ruffin Cardwell m. Thelma Estelle Hopper, 12 Jul 1924)
Ancestry.com. North Carolina, Death Indexes, 1908-2004 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
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