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THE THOMPSON FAMILY. [By Judge John W. Jones, of Bowling Green, Ky., June, 1900.]
The oldest Thompson of whom anything is accurately and definitely known was William, who moved from England to the United States, and settled in Hanover county, Va. somewhere near the middle of the eighteenth century. January 29, 1771, he married Frances Mills, by whom he had the following chil- dren : 1. Peggy, born February 6. 1772 ; 2. Charles, born March 7, 1773 ; 3. Wil- liam Mills, born January 11, 1775 ; 4. Anne, born June 18, 1777; 5. Sarah Mills, born Dec. 15, 1779 ; 6. Mary Anne, born Dec. 1, 1732 ; 7. Frances J., born Dec. 29, 1784 ; 8. Edmond, born April 11, 1787 ; 9. Nathaniel, born Angust 25. 1789.
With the exception of William Mills Thompson and his descendants, but lit- tle is known of the other children of William Thompson and his wife, Frances Mills.
William Mills Thompson was married twice: First to Catherine (Kitty) W. Broaddus ; second to Mildred T. Ball, a grand-niece of George Washington. By his first wife he had the following children : 1. Richard Wigginton Thompson, born June 9, 1809 ; 2d. Mary Juliet Thompson, born Dec. 14, 1811 ; 3. Martha Frances Thompson, born Dec. 8, 1814 ; 4. William Mills Thompson, born Dec. 6, 1816.
By his second wife, William Mills Thompson had the following children : 1. Catherine Mildred Thompson, born Aug. 9, 1822: 2. George Washington Thompson, born Jan. 7, 1825 ; 3. Margaret Anne Thompson, born July 25, 1827.
May 5, 1836, Richard W. Thompson married Harriet E. Gardiner, a cultured and most estimable lady, of Columbus, Ohio, who bore him six children, as fol- lows: 1. Mary Gardiner Thompson ; 2. Frederick S. Thompson : 3. Richard W. Thompson ; 4. Charles Thompson ; 5. Harry G. Thompson ; 6. Virginia Thompson ; all living except Charles who died several years ago. Frederick Thompson married Rachel Durham. They have one child, a boy named Wil- liam Mills. Richard W. Thompson, Jr., married Mrs. Mary A. Barry. They have no children. Virginia Thompson married Judge David W. Henry, and has two children, Harriett and Richard W. Mary G. and Harry are unmarried.
Mary Juliet Thompson, the second child of William Mills and Kitty W. Thompson, married Anthony Addison. Their children were as follows : 1. John F .; 2. Sallie C .; 3. Mollie A .; 4. Murray ; 5. Arthur; 6. Olivia ; 7. Anthony C .; 8. Keturah L. John F. joined the Confederate States' armny and was killed at Williamsburg, Va. He never married. Sallie C. married twice ; first -Capt. Clement C. West, U. S. A., by whom she had one child, Mollie A. After the death of her first husband, Mrs. West married Capt. George A. Mitchell, U. S. A. They had no children. Her daughter by her first marriage married Capt. Cornelius Wilcox, U. S. A., and had no children.
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Mollie A., daughter of Anthony and Mary T. Addison, married Rev. T. O. Ingle, and had a number of children, all of whom are dead except three, Maria, James A., and Mary. Maria married Randall Webb and has one child, Mary. James A. is also married, and has one child. Mary, daughter of T. G. and M. A. Ingle is unmarried. Murray Addison, son of Anthony and Mary T. Addison. married Clara Gantt. They have no children. Arthur, son of Anthony and and Mary T. Addison, married Carrie Steel, and has no children. Olivia C. Ad- dison has never married. Anthony C. Addison is unmarried. Keturah L., the youngest child of Anthony and Mary T. Addison, married, Capt. R. E. Cobb, U. S. A , and has three children, Elsie, Zodie and Murray.
Martha Frances Thompson, third child of William Mills and Kitty Wigginton Thompson, married Samuel Campbell, cashier of the Leesburg, Virginia, bank. Nearly fifty years ago they moved to Louisville, Ky. They have had six chil- dren : William T., Mary C., Antionette A., Phillip S., Robert G., and Fanny C .; all of whom are living except William T., who died soon after the removal of his parents to Louisville. Mary has never married. Antionette A. married Edgar Lyttleton, and has four children, Frank C., Edgar L., Richard C., and Samuel C., all single. Phillip S. married Lizzie Milton. They had two children : Laura and Phillip S. Jr., the former of whom is dead. Robert G. married twice : First, Nannie Browder ; second, Pattie Robb. His first wife died child- less .. His second wife left two children, Anite and Granville. Fanny C., the youngest child of Samuel and Martha Frances Campbell, married George A. Newman. of Louisville, Ky. They have four children, Martha C., Charlotte, Ethel and George. With the exception of the latter, all are single. He married Mabel Payne. They have one child, George Alexander.
William Mills Thompson Jr., the fourth child of William Mills and Kitty W. Thompson, married Mary T. Barker, of Baltimore, Md. They had four children: Margaret H., Catherine. (Kitty) B., John B., and William M. Margaret H. mar- ried Johnson V. Middleton, and had no children. Catherine, (Kitty) B., m. Francis E. Storm, and had one child, Kate B .; John B. Thompson married Ida MeClery. They have two children, Morven, and William M. Morven is un- married. William M. married Evangeline Munson. They have one child.
As has been already stated, the second wife of William Mills Thompson was Mildred Ball. By this marriage he had three children : Kitty, George W., and Margaret. Kitty married Richard Lyttleton, of Loudoun county, Va., and had no children. George married Sarah Bryant, daughter of Judge W. T. Bryant, of Rockville, Ind., and had two children : Margaret A., and George L. Marga- ret A. married Dr. W. N. Wirt, and has no children. Geo. L. married Nettie Clark. They have no children. Margaret Sr., married F. S. T. Ronald, of Louisville, Ky .. and died childless.
Of the many who have borne the name of Thompson, RICHARD WIGGINTON THOMPSON, like Saul among his people, stands forth pre-eminently. His life was so long, his honors so many, his ability so great, his person so handsome, and his manners so winning, that, even in a genealogical history like this, he demands more than a mere passing notice.
Born in Culpeper county, Va., June 9th, 1809, he received the usual education, in the schools of that early day. When about twenty years old, he made a trip to Kentucky, to look after some lands located in the Southern portion of the state, in which the Ball heirs, one of whom was the second wife of his father, had an interest. Having attended to this, he went to Louisville, where he ob- tained a situation as clerk in a dry goods store, which he retained a little more than a year, when he gave it up and left for Bedford, Ind., where he secured a similar position, and borrowing some books from a friend, commenced reading law at night and during such leisure moments in the day as he could snatch from his regular vocation.
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In 1834 he obtained a license, and began the practice of his profession. The same year, and the following one he was elected to the lower branch of the In- diana Legislature. In 1836 he was elected to the State Senate. In the exciting Log Cabin and Hard Cider campaign of 1840, he was a Presidential elector on the Whig ticket, and made a number of speeches in support of Harrison and Tyler, in which he displayed no little oratorical ability. The same year he was elected to Congress, and re-elected in 1847, declining the nomination in 1850. He also declined the Mission to Austria tendered him by President Taylor the following year. When Mr. Fillmore, by the death of General Taylor, became President, Col. Thompson was offered the position of Commissioner of the Gen- eral Land Office, which he also declined.
In 1877 he was tendered the position of Secretary of the Navy by President Hayes, which he accepted, and continued to discharge the duties of the office for nearly four years, when he resigned to accept the position of Vice- President of the Panama Canal Company, receiving for his services the handsome salary of $25,000 per annum. This place he held nearly eight years. Col. Thompson also hield other positions of trust and profit, among them that of Circuit Judge, the duties of which office he discharged for a number of years. Besides the public positions held and declined by Col. Thompson, and his attractiveness and eloquence as a public speaker, he was also a forceful and graceful writer, having during his life written and published a number of works; of the list,one against Catholicism, another on the tariff, and still another containing his recollections of the Presidents and other public men, one of the most attractive and readable books issued from the press for years.
In politics as already intimated, Col. Thompson was originally an "Old Line Whig," and in addition to his canvass in support of Harrison, in 1840, took an active and prominent part in that of the "Great Commoner" in 1844.
. Upon the disbandment of the Whig party, Col. Thompson united with the Republicans, with whom he continued to act as long as he lived, attending their conventions, framing many of their platforms and supporting their nom- inees in speeches of great force and eloquence. At the regular meetings of the party every four years to nominate a candidate for President, few men attract- ed more attention than Col. Thompson ; his snow-white head, his brilliant, black eye, his easy and graceful carriage, united with a bright and sunny smile, never failing to make him one of the men of mark in those great assemblies.
In private life, Col. Thompson's character was as pure and spotless as his public life was distinguished and honorable. An affectionate husband, a kind and indulgent father. a true and constant friend, a liberal and public spirited citizen, he commanded the respect and esteem of all classes and conditions of people.
If one wishes to know who a man is, read the newspapers. If one desires to ascertain WHAT he is, ask those with whom he is thrown from day to day-his friends and neighbors. It does not always follow that a man's reputation from home and his character at home go hand in hand. This, however, was literally true of Col. Thompson. Popular as he was with strangers, he was no less hon- ored and esteemed by his own people-the people of Terre Haute, where he had so long lived, and where he so recently died at the advanced age of ninety, crowned with years and honors, and presenting the anomaly of having known and conversed with more Presidents than any one living, and of having out- lived all his colleagues in the Congress of 1841.
The Rev. William Taliaferro Thompson, of Charleston, S. C., grandson of Merriwether Thompson and Martha S. (Patsy) Broaddus, a sister of Kitty W. Broaddus, who married William Mills Thompson, Sr., furnishes the following concerning the descendants of his grandfather, who was a cousin of William Mills Thompson.
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"Merriwether Thompson and Martha S. Broaddus were married 14th. Oct., 1815, at Maj. Wmn. Broaddus' residence in Culpeper county, Va., by the Rev. John Woodville; issue :
1. William Broaddus Thompson, b. 8th. of Aug., 1816, m. Catherine M. Stribling; 2. Martha Ann Thompson, b. 31st of July, 1818; 3. Juliet Elizabeth Kitty Thompson, b. 26th July, 1820, m. John J. Abell; 4. Mary Harriet Thomp- son, b. 10th July, 1822; 5. Sarah Woodville Thompson, b. 3rd April, 1824; 6. Merriwether Thompson, Jr., (Gen. of Confed. fame) b. 22nd Jan. 1826, at Har- per's Ferry, Va; 7. Charles Montgomery Thompson, b. 12th Oct., 1830, at Har- per's Ferry, Va.
William Broaddus Thompson married Miss Catherine M. Stribling, dau. of Taliaferro Stribling and Mary Tate, and had three children : 1. William Talia- ferro Thompson; 2. Martha Thompson; 3. Magnus Stribling Thompson."
THE JONES FAMILY. [By Judge John W. Jones-June, 1900.]
It is no easy task to write the genealogical history of any family with any degree of accuracy. To write that of the Smiths or Joneses, if carried any distance into the past, is an impossibility. There are so many different fami- lies of these names, in no way related to each other, that a person who at- tempts a sketch of any special one, will meet with the same difficulty encoun- tered by a traveller in a strange section when coming to a number of roads leading in the same direction, yet none of them containing a finger-board to inform him which particular one he should take, in order to reach his point of destination.
When the particular Jones family with which this sketch has to deal first came to the United States, where it located, and what was its origin, whether English or Welsh, is not certainly known. It is believed, however, that it is of English extraction, and settled in Essex county, Virginia, somewhere near the beginning of the 18th. century, if not earlier; some of its members moving thence to Culpeper about the time of the organization of that county in 1748. At any rate, the records of Culpeper show that Gabriel Jones commanded one of the eight companies, furnished by the county for the war of the Revolution; that previous to its commencement, he had twice married, first Ann Waller, who bore him one child, a daughter named Ann, who married William Scott, and moved to Lynchburg, Virginia. They had four children : Gabriel, Robert, Waller and Hugh. The records also show that Capt. Jones' second wife was Martha Slaughter, daughter of Robert Slaughter, the elder, the first Church Warden of St. Marks' Parish, by whom he had four children : Robert, Francis, Gabriel and Mary.
Robert and Francis emigrated to Kentucky, about the year 1820, the for- mer locating in Adair county, and the latter in Warren county, near Bowling Green. Of Roberts' descendants, little or nothing is known.
Francis married Hetty Coons and left several daughters and two sons, William and Cuthbert. William married Mary Mooklar, by whom he had four children : Maria, Sarah E., Mary B., and Frank A. Maria married James E. Harney; Sarah E. married Temple Smith; Mary B. married John T. John- son; and Frank married Adda Hall. Cuthbert studied medicine; married Eliza R. Treat, and moved to Chester, Illinois, many years ago. They had eleven children, as follows : 1. Francis S .; 2. Mary E .: 3. William C .; 4. Robert S .; 5. Llewellyn Powell; 6. Eliza R T .; 7. Edward R .; 8. James P .; 9. Peyton C .; 10. Susan T .; 11. Herbert C.
The most of these children died young and without issue; only one of them, Judge William C. Jones, of St. Louis, Mo., marrying and having any
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descendants. Nov. 20th, 1850, Judge Jones married Mary A. Chester. They had ten children, of whom only four are living, viz : Fannie S., who married Walter S. Watson, Julia M., who married Joseph P. Goodman, James C. and Giles F., who are nnmarried.
Gabriel Jones, the third son of Captain Gabriel of the Revolution, married Jane Wigginton. They had seven children : Emily, William Wigginton, Gabriel Scott, Seth Slaughter, Eliza Ann, John Wigginton and Martha Slaughter. Emily married George W. Ronald, son of William Ronald, a lead- ing member of the Richmond, Virginia, bar in its early days, who was of counsel for the British creditors holding claims against persons residing in the United States prior to the Revolution. The children of George W. and Emily Ronald were as follows: Francis S. J., William A., Sarah J., Gabriel J., Rich- ard W., Emily, Ann E., George W., Seth S., Mary M., John N., Harriet M., and Balsora J.
Francis S. J. Ronald, the first child of George W. and Emily Ronald. when quite a young man, left the parental home in Warren county, Ky., and settled in Louisville, where through his indomitable energy and close atten- tion to business, he became one of its leading citizens, having during his life been Deputy Sheriff, Postmaster under Buchanan's administration, and pro- prietor of one of the largest and most popular tobacco warehouses in the city. He was married twice; his first wife being Mary Decantillon, and his second Margaret Thompson. By his first marriage he had three children : William .A., Emma and Mary D. His second wife died childless. William A. married Lucy Grotjan, who had three children, Grotjan, Decantillon and William. Decantillon married Harding Williams and has one child : Harding. Grotjan and William are unmarried. Mary D. married D. M. Lawson, and has two children : Frankie and Cary. Frankie married William Garvin, and has one child: Volney L. Cary is still single. Emma, second child of F. S. J. and Mary Decantillon Ronald, died a number of years nga, having never married.
William A. Ronald, second child of George W. and Emily Ronald, like his brother Frank, located in Louisville some time previous to his having reached his majority, and like him, through his energy and business habits, he so far acquired the respect and confidence of the people as to be elected successively marshall of the city, sheriff of the county, and for many years held the posi- tion of stock agent of the Louisville and Nashville railroad. He married Mary J. Marshall, who bore him four children : Kate, Rose, Lee and Sue. Kate died young and ummarried. Rose married William Shane, and left one child : Wil- liam. Lee married Benjamin E. Webb, and has three children : William. Marshall and Hugh. Sue married Andrew T. Kirby, and has one child : Mary.
Gabriel, the third child of George W. and Emily Rounld, married Lucy Moss, by whom he had three children : Ellen M., Richard, and George. Ellen M. married Columbus Smith and has four children : Clyde, Lizzie, Frederick, and Varna. Richard married Cora Shrader, and had three children : Earl, Elma, and Lee. George died young and unmarried.
Sarah J., the fourth child of George W. and Emily Ronald, died soon after reaching womanhood, having never married.
Richard W. Ronald, the fifth child of George W. and Emily Ronald, was a man of much amiability of character and excellent business capacity. For many years he was a partner of his brother Frank in Louisville's Ninth Street Tobacco Warehouse, nud was a member of the firm at the time of his death. He never married.
Ann Eliza, the sixth child of George W. and Emily Ronald, married Vance Smith, and died childless.
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Emily, the seventh child of George W. and Emily Ronald, never married. George W., the eighth child of George W. and Emily Ronald, like his brothers, Frank, William, Richard and Seth, moved from Warren county, Kentucky, to Louisville when young. Not long after his arrival he commenced the study of medicine, graduating in the old medical school of that city in 1849, when he at once opened an office and commenced the practice of his pro- fession. By assidious attention to his duties, and success in their performance, in the course of time he built up a large and lucrative business, and, although he has been in the harness for more than half a century, and is a man of fortune, he continues to practice, insisting that "it is better to wear out than to rust out." He married Laura Glover, daughter of William R. Glover, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Louisville. Doctor and Mrs. Ron- ald have but one child, Albert G., who is a graduate of the Louisville city schools, and also of the University of Virginia. By profession he is a lawyer, and a partner of his father-in-law, Judge A. E. Richards, having married his daughter, Jessie, several years ago. Albert G. and Jessie Ronald have two children : George and Mary T.
Mary M., the ninth child of George W. and Emily Ronald, married twice. First : Thomas B. Dent, by whom she had one child : Thomas B. Dent, Jr. Her present husband is Edwin Talbutt, a man of quiet and unobtrusive habits, but of good intellect and extensive reading. They have no children. Thomas B. Dent, Jr., married Laura Smith. They have four children : William, Lucien, Paul and Percy.
Seth S., the tenth child of George W. and Emily Ronald, married twice. First : Lizzie Herbert; secondly : Amelia Forsyth. His first wife bore him seven children : George, Herbert, Laura, Mollie, Florence S., Lavinia, and Frank. George, Herbert, Laura and Lavinia are dead. Mollie married Joseph C. Barclay, and has one child : Florence. Florence S. married William F. Owsley, a grandson of one of the Governors of Kentucky. William F. and Florence S. Owsley had five children : Erasmus B., Herbert R., Elizabeth B., William B., and Frank. Herbert R. is the only one living. Lavinia, third child of S. S. and Elizabeth Ronald, died single. Frank, their youngest child, has never married. Amelia, the second wife of Seth S. Ronald, left one child, who died in infancy.
Harriet M., the eleventh child of George W. and Emily Ronald, married Alexander C. Stevenson, and has two children : Emily and William. Emily married Thomas Berger, and has no children. William married Ophelia Ellis, and has five children : Frank L., J. H., Lena P., Eula B., and H. Ronald.
John N. the twelfth child of George W. and Emily Ronald, married Eliza- beth Still. They have an only child : James.
Balsora J., the thirteenth child of George W. and Emily R. Ronald, married Thomas Rockwell, and has six children : Eula, Herbert, Ronald, Ida, Thomas and Laura D .. Ronald married Ida Campbell. They have five chil- dren : Herbert, Ronald, Ruby D., William, and Thomas. Ida married Charles R. Ousley, and has no children. Laura married Judson L. Price, and is childless.
William Wigginton Jones, the second child of Gabriel Jones and Jane Wigginton, was born August 20, 1795, married Elizabeth Farish October 31, 1822, and died March 11, 1855, leaving seven children. In 1812, when the war between the United States and Great Britain commenced. Mr. Jones enlisted as a soldier, and his widow drew a pension up to the time of her death, No- veinber 16, 1882. His children were as follows : John William, Robert Henry, Thomas Wigginton, James Farish, Strother Seth, Gabriel Scott, and Mildred Jane.
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John William, the first child of William W. and Elizabeth Jones, left Culpeper county for Louisville, Kentucky, when only fifteen years of age, and for three years served as clerk in the hardware store of his uncle, John Wig- ginton Jones. He then returned to Virginia and attended school for several years. Returning to Louisville, he began the study of law, graduating in 1851 at the law school of that city. The following year he commenced the practice of his profession at Rockville, Indiana, where he remained for two years, when he removed to Terre Haute, of which city and the county of Vigo, he was elected Connon Pleas Judge in 1856. For the last twenty years he has resided at Bowling Green, Kentucky, where he has been engaged in news- paper work in the capacity of editorial writer.
Robert Henry, the second son of William Wigginton and Elizabeth Jones, was a private in the Confederate army. and was killed in Missouri in 1862.
Thomas Wigginton, third son of William Wigginton and Elizabeth Jones, is a farmer and has also served as Commissioner of the Revenue. October 16, 1851, he married Mildred D. Hansbrough, by whom he had the following chil- dren : William Wigginton, John Wesley, Mary Long, Thomas Benjamin, Emma Stevens, William Wigginton, Hervey Slaughter, and Annie Howard. William W., John W., Mary L., and Annie Howard are dead. Hervey S. married Bessie Irvine. They have one child : John Irvine. Thomas B., Emma S., and William W. are all unmarried.
James Farish, the fourth son of William Wigginton and Elizabeth Jones. was by profession a physician, graduating at the old medical school in Lonis- ville in 1855. When the war between the States commenced, he volunteered as a private in the Brandy Rifles. In 1863 he was captured and sent to Point Lookout, where he remained until he was exchanged as a sick prisoner. At the time of his exchange his health was so poor that he could get no further than Richmond. where he died April 26, 1864.
Strother S., the fifth son of William Wigginton and Elizabeth Jones, has at different periods of his life been a farmer, school teacher, Commissioner of the Revenue, and soldier. When the war commenced he enlisted as a private in the Black Horse company, and was present at the first and last battles of that long and bloody struggle. He married Lucy Stewart, and has three chil- children : Betty, Susan, and Mary. Betty married Arthur Hart, and has five children: Meta R., Alexander, Bessie, Susan, and Strother H. Susan married James Matthews, and has two children: Seth and Stewart. Mary is un- married.
Gabriel Scott, the sixth son of William Wigginton and Elizabeth Jones, was, by profession, a lawyer, graduating at the Louisville Law School in 1854. He commenced the practice in Rockville, Indiana, moving thence to Terre Haute, and thence to Dubuque, Iowa, where he was residing when the war began. Coming to Culpeper he joined the Brandy Rifles as a private in the ranks, and continued in service until the surrender. In 1866 he resumed the practice of his profession, locating at Rodney, Mississippi, where he remained a few years, removing thence to Texas, and died at Beaumont, in that State, March 23, 1899.
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