Elizabeth Page (West) Thompson (1837 - 1892)

Born 1837 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Augustine Thompson — married 16 Apr 1861 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Died 11 Jan 1892 at about age 55 in Redwood City, San Mateo, California, USA

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Biography

Elizabeth was born in 1837. She passed away in 1892.

Elizabeth's great grandfather, Colonel John Nixon, is best known as the first person to publicly read the Declaration of Independence, which he did from the steps of the State House on July 8, 1776.

Sources

• 1850 Census of the United States (Ancestry.com), Note: ABBR 1850 Census of the United States, Note: Call number: Page: U.S. Navy Yard Gosport, Norfolk Co, Virginia p197, Text: age 13
• 1870 Census of the United States (www.ancestry.com), Note: ABBR 1870 Census of the United States, Note: Call number: Page: Dist 3 Ward 10, San Francisco, San Francisco Co, California p291B-292A, Text: age 27
• 1880 Federal Census, Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California, 22 Jun 1880, page 32
• Find A Grave: Elizabeth West Thompson, BIRTH 1837, Virginia, USA, DEATH 11 Jan 1892 (aged 54–55), Redwood City, San Mateo County, California, USA, BURIAL Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA, PLOT Main Circle 184, MEMORIAL ID 143379302 [1]
• The San Francisco Call (San Francisco, San Francisco, CA), 12 Jan 1892, Tue, Page 8, obituary.
• San Francisco Marriage Records - [2].
• The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Rhode Island, The Society, 1908 - 55 pages (Page 494) [3]
• Note: ABBR San Francisco Marriage Records -[4]. "THOMPSON/WEST--Married in San Francisco, 16th inst., Trinity Church, Robert A. THOMPSON, Jr., of Monterey, to Miss E.P. WEST, of Norfolk, Va." Source: Sonoma County Journal (Petaluma, CA) 20 Apr 1860. Transcribed by Jeanne Taylor.
• Whit Morris, The First Tunstalls in Virginia and Some of Their Descendants (Press of The Clegg Company. San Antonio, TX. 1950), Note: ABBR The First Tunstalls in Virginia and Some of Their Descendants, Note: Call number: Page: p79
• Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia, R.T. Green, 1900 - Culpeper County (Va.) - 160 pages, Page 88 [5]