Thomas Ambrose WICKHAM ²

  General Notes:

PHOTO: submitted by Suzanne Krogh

1941 LETTER OF MRS. C. A. (Charles Addison) WICKHAM: states Thomas Ambrose Wickham was b. in Chambersburg, MO,

1900 MO CENSUS, Clark Co, Lincoln Twp, Kahoka: Thomas Wickham, 29?, b. Sep 28, 1879 MO; Louis, wife, 23, b. Oct 8, 1876 IL; dau Merell, 5, b. July 17, 1895; dau Tingrie(?), 2, b. Aug 25, 1892(?).

1910 MO CENSUS, Clark Co, Kahoka: Thomas A. Wickham, 39; wife Louise A., 33; dau Merle, 15; dau George, 11; dau Frankie, 9.

1920 MO CENSUS, Clark Co, Kahoka, 362 E. Thompson St: Thomas A. Wickham, 47; wife Louisa A., 41, b. IL; dau Mabel, 19, b. MO.

1930 MO CENSUS, Clark Co, Lincoln Twp, Kahoka: Tom A. Wickham, own, $1600, 59, first marriage age 23, b. MO, father b. OH, mother b. MO, cooper, factory; wife Louisa A., 53, first marriage age 17, b. IL, parents b. IL; grandson Thomas E. Mackie, 13, b. IA, father b. IA, mother b. MO.

OBIT: Clark County Courier (MO), June 24, 1938: Thomas Ambrose Wickham, third child of Jacob A., and Sarah Jane Wickham, was born in Luray, MO, Sept. 28, 1870 and passed into his last peaceful sleep at his home in Kahoka, MO, June 17, 1938, making his age 67 yrs, 8 mo and 20 days. On Jan. 4, 1894 he was united in marriage to Miss Louise Murphy, who has been his faithful companion 44 yrs. To this happy union 3 daughter were born. They are Mrs. Virgil Clayton, Abingdon, IL; Mrs. William Ellis, Hanover, KS and Mrs. Barton Butler, Kahoka, MO. He also leaves to mourn one sister, Mrs. Anna Butler, of Kahoka, and one brother, Charles A. Wickham of Keokuk, IA.

Thomas married Louise A. MURPHY, daughter of Living and Living, on 4 Jan 1894 in Clark Co, MO.¹ (Louise A. MURPHY was born on 8 Oct 1876 in Good Hope, Mcdonough Co, IL,⁴ died on 11 Jun 1955 ⁵ and was buried in Kahoka Cem, Kahoka, Clark Co, MO ³.)