Talk:Cameron E. Thom

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Biographical omissions[edit]

Currently his page says he had two wives and four children. Yes, this information is sourced, but incomplete. I propose the following edit:

       "Thom was married at least three times: first in 1851 to Elizabeth L Beach who died in 1856; second in 1858 to Susan Henrietta Hathwell who died in 1862, and third in 1874 to Susan's sister, Belle Cameron Hathwell. He had eight known children: Charles and Harry from Elizabeth; Albert Mayo from Susan; and Cameron DeHart, Catesby Charles, Belle Buford "Jette" (Mrs. Arthur Collins of London, England), Erskine Pembroke, and Alex L, all from Belle."

I have seen Mrs Arthur Collins with a variation of LADY Arthur Collins, however her husband was Arthur Pelham Collins, a playwright with his own wiki page, does not appear to have been inducted into any order. And yes I have the right A.P. Collins; they married in 1901 but that's a different matter. Only mentioning it before we go giving her titles she didn't have. It's also interesting that her brother's obituary says Cameron was the FIRST mayor when he was the SIXTEENTH, so even newspapers (yeah, the ones often cited as sources on here) give bad information.

I know the wiki community is a stickler for sources, but I'm not so great at formatting all that (not to mention I've offered sources on other articles and they have been rejected by someone that didn't want to be upstaged), so I'll include my sources here and maybe someone else can do the good work.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/237338048/elizabeth-l-thom has a newspaper wedding announcement

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10367217/susan-henrietta-thom

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40813988/belle-cameron-thom

1860, 1870, 1880, and 1900 Federal Census records that took me about 2 minutes to find on ancestry.com

Obituaries of Albert Mayo, Cameron DeHart, and Erskine Pembroke available on findagrave 74.80.182.100 (talk) 08:19, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]