Person:Elizabeth Donaghe (3)

Elizabeth Melvina Donaghe
Facts and Events
Name Elizabeth Melvina Donaghe
Unknown Emma Nicholson
Gender Female
Birth[1] 4 Jun 1826 Kentucky, United States
Marriage 6 Dec 1846 Springfield, Greene, Missouri, United Statesto Joseph Alexander Thompson
Death[1] Oregon or Washington

An alternate name is listed because of a 1900 census that shows her listed as Emma Nicholson, grandmother of James David VanNostern.

The spelling of her name and data, below, comes from her family bible. Unknown if this page is transcribed or original. It is written on lined paper, but old style writing.

Marriages

Joseph Thompson and Elizabeth Melvina Donaghe were married December the 6 1846

Births

Joseph Thompson was born Oct to 6 A.D. 1823

Elizabeth Melvina Donaghe was born June the 4 A.D. 1826

The document goes on to list the 11 children born to that couple as:

William Jasper Thompson Melissa Jane Thompson Hugh Daniel Thompson James Franklin Thompson Martha Caroline Thompson Sarah Phebe Thompson John Mercer Thompson George B. Thompson Joseph Alexander Thompson Edwin M. Thompson Francis Marion Thompson

Names are written precisely as seen written of document

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).