Individual Notes

Note for: Abraham Thompson, 22 APR 1826 - 14 APR 1917 Index

Census:
     Date:   1850
     Place:   Ohio
     Note:   Abram (sic) Thompson, Age 23, Male, Farmer, Property Value $600

Census:
     Date:   1880
     Place:   Pecatonica, Winnebago, Illinois

Event:   I1869
     Type:   REFI

Individual Note:
     The posting that resulted in the breakthrough on the Thompson line:

Keith Thompson [email protected] 7 May 1998 19:45:08
Looking for Abraham Thompson, b Rockford, Wyandotte, IL d. 1896. m Selma DOWNS. Children: Albert Thompson, Ellen Thompson, Melvina Thompson, Henry, Bertha, William, Minnie, Eddy Charles, Frank (all Thompson). Also looking for Mary Francis CHAPMAN, d 1930 m Albert Thompson 1875. From Rockford, the family broke up and moved to IA, MN, ND, SD. Keith Thompson mailto:[email protected]

Direct Ancestor of Keith Thompson

On pgs 14 - 22 of the book Ancestors and Descendants of Joel W. Thompson, there is a history of Summit County by Gen. L.V. Bierce 1854. Although Abraham Thompson is not mentioned as the first resident, he was very close behind as he was there in 1801. It was Town four, Range ten and was purchased of the Connecticut Land Company by David Hudson, Birdseye Norton, Nathaniel Norton, Stephen Baldwin, Benjamin Oviatt and Theodore Farmele, for fifty-two cents and acre.

Death Note:
From the Last Will and Testament of Abraham Thompson:
He left one third to his wife and speaks of his wife aforward ad her Dower, the use and occupancy of the equal third part of all his real estate during her natural life. He also stated that the gifts that he had given Salmon, Sally and Jo el W. were all that they should receive unless there was an excess after the debts and other bequests were properly made. He gave to his son Augustus, additional land to square off the boundaries of his south property line. To his daughter Clarissa, he left two hundred dollars and to his other daughters, Alice and Susan, he left each with eight hundred dollars. After these specific bequests, he directed the remainder to be equally divided among all of his living children.
Signed on the seventh day of August 1827.

(Note, Abraham died less than a year after drafting his will).

Obituary in the Rockford Register-Gazette, written on April 27, 1917;
Mrs. Will Anderson was called to Webster City, Iowa last week by the death of her father, Abraham Thompson, who passed away there at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A.J. Wells, on Saturday, April 14th of apoplexy. Abraham Thompson was born in Twinsburg, Ohio, April 22, 1826 and was therefore nearly 91 yeas of age at his death. He was married seventy years ago at Beloit, Wisconsin to Miss Selina Downs and to this union eleven children were born of whom three have passed away - Albert and Judd Thompson and Mrs. Bertha Hellen - the latter having died but a few months ago. The eight sons and daughters who survive their father are: Frank, Tulare, Calif.; Mrs. A.J. Wells and H.I. Thompson, Webster City, Iowa; Mrs. Vina Zublin, Los Angles, Calif.; Will, Adrian, Minn; Mrs. Minnie Anderson, Pecatonica, Ill; Ed, Waterloo, Iowa; and Charles, Austin, Minn. He is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. Harriet Haskell of Rockford, Ill, and Mrs. Mary Stickney, of Albany, N.Y. and one brother, Joel M. Thompson, of Pecatonica, Ill.
Mr. and Mrs. Thompson resided at Lysander, Ill from the time of their marriage until their children were grown when they went west and located in Tulare, Calif. A year later, they returned to the middle states going to Waterloo, Iowa, where Mrs. Thompson passed away in May, eleven years ago at the age of 76.

Individual Notes

Note for: Joel B. Thompson, 31 OCT 1828 - Index

Event: I1870
Type: REFI

Individual Notes

Note for: Emily Florilla Thompson, 26 JAN 1830 - 25 MAR 1878 Index

Event: I1871
Type: REFI

There is a conflict also with birth dates of Emily F. Thompson. Ref: Ancestors and decendants of Joel W. Thompson show a birth date of 26 Jan 1830 while the Portrait and Biographical Record of Winnebago and Boone County, 1892 show her birth date as 1828 near Hudson, OH.

Individual Notes

Note for: Joel Gideon Thompson, 12 AUG 1832 - 10 MAY 1833 Index

Event:   I1872
     Type:   REFI

Birth Note:
Location assumed, but not stated in Thompson book.