Alta only achieved a sixth grade education before she married horseman Fred P. Thompson in 1909 when she was 16 and he was 28. She gave birth in 1910 to a daughter, Eva May, and she had son Lyman Leroy Thompson in 1914. She lived a long life, though it was hard.
In 1930, Alta got a job as a machine operator in an overall (pants factory in Galesburg, and was living with her son. They'd taken in a lodger to help pay the bills. Her husband wasn't listed at home (he may have been in the war, or they separated?) but he didn't die until the following year.
In 1930, Alta got a job as a machine operator in an overall (pants factory in Galesburg, and was living with her son. They'd taken in a lodger to help pay the bills. Her husband wasn't listed at home (he may have been in the war, or they separated?) but he didn't die until the following year.
Alta only achieved a sixth grade education before she married horseman Fred P. Thompson in 1909 when she was 16 and he was 28. She gave birth in 1910 to a daughter, Eva May, and she had son Lyman Leroy Thompson in 1914. She lived a long life, though it was hard.
In 1930, Alta got a job as a machine operator in an overall (pants factory in Galesburg, and was living with her son. They'd taken in a lodger to help pay the bills. Her husband wasn't listed at home (he may have been in the war, or they separated?) but he didn't die until the following year.
In 1930, Alta got a job as a machine operator in an overall (pants factory in Galesburg, and was living with her son. They'd taken in a lodger to help pay the bills. Her husband wasn't listed at home (he may have been in the war, or they separated?) but he didn't die until the following year.
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