Thompson, Jane Wallace (b. , d. 15 MAY 1808)

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 16

Note: "All these children survived their parents." "Moved to Seneca Twp, Ontario Co, New York in 1817 with his family. Two large covered wagons conveyed him, his wife, and ten children with their household goods" Later they moved to Clovington Twp, Genesee Co., NY. In 1833 three sons who had married bought farms in Erie Co, Pa, and here Alexander, his wife and younger members of the family lived for ten years on a farm two miles west of Edinboro, belonging to David Proudfit." Alexander Proudfit died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. William Campbell, Oct 11, 1844. His wife died at the same place July 13, 1844. Both are buried in the old cemetery at Edinboro.

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 17

Death: 11 OCT 1844 Edinboro, Pa

Burial: Old cemetery, Edinboro, Pa

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 17

Death: 13 JUL 1844 Edinboro, Pa

Burial: Old cemetery,Edinboro, Pa

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 17

Note: compton's sketch of Proudfit History gives the date of birth as Feb 28, 1797

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 17

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 17

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 17

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 17

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 17

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 17

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Note: Graduated Edinboro Normal School (later known as Edinboro State College). Met Frank who lived there. They carried on a correspondence for some years prior to their marriage. She later taught at the Lewiston, Idaho Indian reservation. Evidently she went to visit a sister in the area ,wife of Cecil Blanchard, who was a store manager of a J.C. Penny store in the area and decided to stay and work. Later Frank arrived and they decided to marry. Her family knew him and approved.

Event: Type: Ethnicity/Relig.
Place: Presbyterian

Occupation: Place: English teacher- taught on indian reservation,Lewiston, Idaho

Death: ABT. 10 MAY 1959 Tulsa, Oklahoma

Burial: Fairview Cemetery, Allegheny Twp, Venango Co, Pleasantville, Pa

Cause: CHF

Note: Roger, his son , remembers his father dying on Sunday morning at home. He hd been complaining about going to chuch to his father. Then later heard noises "death rattle". My mother ran next door to call the doctor as we had no phone but he was all ready gone when the doctor arrived. Frank had been complaining of chest pain in a letter he wrote to a sister-in-law previously. Roger reports that his father had fallen to the ground while taking out the garbage on another occasion but had been able to get back up after the pain subsided.

Frank had assisted Bob or Jim Proudfit who were cousins from Edinboro in their shop to the best of Roger's recollection. They stayed in Ogden.

Occupation: Place: shop keeper, Ogden Utah, Proudfit Sporting Goods

Death: 31 OCT 1937 Ogden, Utah

Cause: Heart attack

Note: Note 1: Mustered into service Aug 26, 1862. Taken prisoner at Reams station Weldon Railroad Aug 25 1864 and was confined in Libby prison, Belle Isle and Salisbury, Georgia. Spent about six months in prison. He was discharged with Co. May 31, 1865. Belle Isle prison was an island in the James River which runs through Richmond. He reported catching and eating rats to survive his imprisonment.

Note 2: From 1875 to 1902, with a brief interruption in1885, he conducted a grocery business in Edinboro, Pennsylvania. Since retirement in 1902 he continued to reside there. (1911 report)

Note 3: For further, details, historical documentation on the battles where Francis was captured and the conditions of Libby prison see C:\FTW\Documentation\Proudfit Historical.DOC

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 35
Data:
Text: birth place and date

Note: Note: Andrew served as a volunteer in the war of 1812. His Co. under Captain Wm Allison was ordered out Nov 7, 1814. * In 1817 he went with his parents to western New York. After his marriage he lived in Friendship, Alleganey Co. New York until 1833 when he moved with his family to Franklin Tp, Erie Co. Pennsylvania where he bought a farm of H.J. Huidekoper. Here he farmed and practiced his trade of cooper until his children were grown, and here at the home of his oldest son, to whom the farm had been transferred, he died of pneumonia, Jan 20, 1875.
He was a man of strong character, but not aggressive. His unquestioned integrity and absolute fairness commanded confidence, and his uniformly considerate treatment of others made enemies impossble. Singularly free from personal prejudices and petty weakness, he was one of those rare persons whose friends find nothing to censure during his life, and nothing to excuse after his death.
A quiet dignity of manner, and an intelligent interest in matters of general importance, gave the impression of a man of the world, though after he settled in Pennsylvania he rarely traveled beyond the limits of the county, and never made a journey by rail. His mind was open and receptive to the last. The habit of smoking, formed when a young man, he gave up after he was seventy years old, bccause he became convinced that it was injurious.
He had a great fondness for flowers. My earliest recollection of a visit at "Uncle Andrew's" is associated with my first acquaintance with the gilliflower of stock, some plants of which were blooming luxuriantly where he had sown the seed in a hollow stump in his front dooryard.

* His return was fixed in the memory of his sister, Martha by what seemed to the child's mind a domestic catastrophe. A few neighbors had come in to welcome the young soldier home, and while conversation was going on, a china cubboard fell with a crash, just missing the head of the small Nancy, who ran to her mother crying, " It wasn't me!" An old man who was one of the callers was so amused that he kept chuckling at intervals during the rest of his stay, " ' It was na' me,' quo' she! ' It was na' me,' quo' she."

From Historical Sketch of the PROUDFIT FAMILY of York County, Pennsylvania

with a complete record of the descendants of Alexander Proudfit and Martha McCleary

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 17

Death: 20 JAN 1875 Franklin, Tp. Erie Co, Pennsylvania

Note: She was a woman of great energy and physical endurance. her life was undoubtedly shortened by grief and anxiety. Five of her sons had enlisted in the Union Army in the Civil War, and at the time of her death one had died of wounds, one had been reported missing after a battle and not again heard from, and two had been confined in southern prisons, the fate of one of whom -her youngest child-was still unknown. (This was Francis Trimmer.)


Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family of York County, Pennsylvania With a Complete record of the descendants of Alexander Proudfit and Marth McCleary Compiled by Margaret Commpton 1911

Death: 30 JAN 1865 Franklin, Tp. Erie Co, Pennsylvania

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 35
Data:
Text: birth date and place

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 31
Data:
Text: birth date and place

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 31
Data:
Text: birth and place