John Thompson was born on 4 Mar 1797 in Kentucky. [1–4]In Sep 1810 he was apprenticed to George Brown in Ohio County, Kentucky. [5]In Nov 1810 he was released from apprenticeship to George Brown in Ohio County, Kentucky. [6]In May 1811 John was an apprenticed to John Taylor to learn the art of a blacksmith …
Category: Thompson
Dear Linda
Are we cousins? Or am I a cousin to your husband? I recently worked with an obituary that identified O. P. Stufflebeam, Morgan Stufflebeam, Miller Stufflebeam and Mrs. Margaret Burberick as cousins of the children of Harriet Foster Fleming. When I read those names, I immediately thought of you and your Empty Branches on the …
Another William
Do you encounter same name issues when researching your family history? Most readers of this blog are likely aware that I struggle with same names, particularly with my James Crawford research. Not only do I have two men named James Crawford in the same area at the same time but I have three in the …
Friday Find
As I've been updating my THOMPSON family research, I've come across several sets of handwritten notes from a visit to the Iowa Historical Society in Des Moines. One set of notes is for Wapello County, Iowa marriage records. Fortunately, I wrote down enough of the information about the book to locate a copy of the …
John Thompson
John Thompson was born on 4 Mar 1797 in Kentucky. [1–4] In Sep 1810, he was a apprenticed to George Brown in Ohio County, Kentucky. [5] In Nov 1810, he was a released from apprenticeship to George Brown in Ohio County, Kentucky. [6] In May 1811, John was an apprenticed to John Taylor to learn …
Orphan
Have you ever wondered whether there could be another definition for a familiar word? That's my case with the word, orphan. I recently uncovered several apprenticeship documents in Ohio County, Kentucky, that refer to John Thompson as a 14 year old orphan. Having assumed that an orphan is a child who has lost both parents, …
Thompson Theory
My recent Friday Finds post was about an apprenticeship record for a John Thompson in Ohio county, Kentucky. Hoping to find the name of John's father, I recently scanned the court order books up to the entry for the apprenticeship. Unfortunately, my scanning of these court orders did not uncover any mention of a Thompson …
Friday Finds
Last week, I posted about marriage records from the book, Ohio County Kentucky Records, Volume I by Michael L. Cook and Bettie A. Cummings Cook. In my photocopy of the book, I also a copy of page 242 which contains information about the apprenticeship of John Thompson as a blacksmith. P. 480 13 May 1811, …
Francis Marion Thompson
One of the THOMPSON items buried in my files is a photocopy from the book, History of Adams County, Iowa. This book contains several THOMPSON biographies. One of those biographies is for Francis and Martha Thompson. Francis and Martha ThompsonFrancis Marion Thompson, son of John and Sarah (Iglehart) Thompson, was born April 16, 1838 in …
Thompson – Iglehart Descendants
1-John Thompson-4601 [Ancestry Profile] [WikiTree Profile] [FamilySearch K2TP-YPX] b: 4 March 1797, Kentucky, United States d: 14 August 1857, Adams, Iowa, United States +Sarah Iglehart-4600 b: 24 March 1800, Maryland, United States m: 1 February 1820, Ohio, Kentucky, United States d: 5 February 1877, Adams, Iowa, United States . . . . . 2-William T. …