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Thomas William Parminter

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

STATUS: 
Victim
DATE OF Birth:
May 27, 1865
Place of Birth:
Bridgewater ,
 Somerset County,
  England
Date of Death:
 July 24, 1915
Place of Death:
Chicago,
 Cook,
 United States
GENDER:
M
OTHER KNOWN NAMES:
Thomas W Parminter
ETHNICITY:
English
KNOWN ADDRESS:
2129 Van Buren Street ,
 Chicago ,
 IL,
  United States
RELATED TO:

Anne Parminter, wife
Anna Parminter, daughter

At the time of the tragedy.

AGE:
50
MARITAL STATUS:
Married
ROLE:
passenger

other information

CEMETERY:
Mt. Auburn Memorial Park, Stickney, IL
IDENTIFIED BY:

Kate Green, Cleveland, Ohio

OTHER NOTES:

Thomas William Parminter was born in Bridgewater, County of Somerset, England. He was the son of Thomas Souden and Mary Ann Parminter and was one of four children. He worked with his father at the family buisness in Bridgewater up until the late 1890s.

Thomas, his wife Anne, and their daughter, Anna all boarded the Eastland. Thomas and his daughter Anna both perished. Wife and mother Anne survived, being injured slightly while being pulled to safety via a porthole. Father and daughter were both employed at the Hawthorne Works.

CITATION:

Eastland Disaster Relief (Chicago Chapter, American Red Cross) · 1918 · Page 145
Eastland Disaster (Cook County Coroner's Office) · July 24, 1915· Page 13
Eastland Disaster victims' ledger (Western Electric Company) · Page 43
Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) · July 31, 1915, Saturday · Page 16
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90088783/thomas-w-parminter

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
David S. Parminter, great-grandson
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