Some Thompson Family Biographies
Thompson Biographies
Cheney Records are in Erie County Historical Society
The Evergreen Cemetery Book is at the Union City Historical Museum
Abel Thompson. Married Jemima Kemp on September 28, 1778. She died on November 15, 1816. Abel married as a second wife Tamar Gray Ames.
Abel’s Children by Jemima:
Job- 1779-1852
Mary- 1781-1815. Married Conrad Kile.
Sarah-Born November 10, 1792. Died February 24, 1862. Married Aaron Boylan II on December 20, 1809. They were married by Hugh Wilson, esq.
Aron- Born august 30, 1783. Died August 30, 1783.
Abel Jr. – 1785. Went West.
Joel Thompson
Joel. 1788. He was a blacksmith and a stonecutter. Along with his father, Abel, he found boulders in the woods and from them made grinders for the new mills in Union Township. Joel made most of the tombstones in the township from native stone and he and Abel also made all of the farming and household utensils for the community. According to county histories, Joel was a veteran in the War of 1812, serving under Perry. He also held the degree of bachelor of sciences.
Joel Thompson was married three times. His first wife, Margaret Smith Thompson, was married three times. His first wife, Margaret Smith Thompson, died of fever, leaving a daughter, Nancy. He remarried Mary Mulvin, and had eight children from his second marriage. They were: William, Samuel, Caleb, John W., Charles, Margaret, Jane J. and Lucilla. After Mary died in December 1868, he married Elizabeth Wilson who survived him. His son Charles died of diarrhea contracted in the army during the Civil War. Joel died August 21, 1868.
Joel Thompson. Son of Abel and Jemima Thompson. Born January 14, 1788. Family records say he died in Union Township on August 21, 1868. Joel Thompson aged 80 years. Erie Observer, September 3, 1868. August 27, 1868.
Old Thompson Burying Ground-Tombstone
To the Memory /Of/Margaret Thompson/Who died march 27, 1813. Aged/23 years. She was Margaret Smith Thompson, Joel’s first wife. They were married in 1812.
Her flesh shall slumber in the ground/Till the last trumpets-----sound/Then burst her bonds-----/
And in her savior-----/Of Joel Thompson-----/She was the c------/Tis hop’d shes gone-----/
Of joys forever new./She left him and one infant dear/
Her loss for to deplore/But they’d hope to meet her whare/
Thares pleasures evermore.
1973 Thompson Cemetery Readings
Nancy Thompson was the “one infant dear” mentioned in her mother’s epitaph. Her mother died five days after her birth. Nancy was born March 21, 1813, and died in November 1895. She married Daniel Bunting and raised a family. Daniel was born in 1800 and died in 1891. Daniel’s parents were Septama and Samuel Bunting. Samuel was born in Bucks County, Pa. in 1743. Septama was the daughter of Edmund and Margaret Cowgill of Burlington, New Jersey. They married at Falls Meeting of the Society of Friends in Bucks County. They came to Erie County about 1797.
The Buntings had five children:
1. Margaret married in Bucks County.
2. Tamazine married in 1812 in Le Boeuf Township, Erie County.
3. John Stockard Bunting was born in 1780 and died in 1856. He married Elizabeth Black (1798-1848) in 1817.
4. Edmund married May-------.
5. Daniel Bunting (1800-1891) He married Nancy Thompson, Joel’s daughter, in 1833.
Memorial of/Mary. Wife of/Joel Thompson/Who died December 28, 1868/Aged 65 years.\1973 Cemetery Readings
Cheney Records say 1858
Joel’s Other Children
Elizabeth and twin sister. Children of Joel and Mary Mulvin Thompson. Born 1815. Died 1815. Probably in Thompson Burying Ground.
William J. Thompson. Son of Joel and Mary Mulvin Thompson. Born April 1817. Died December 1896.
Margaret Thompson. Daughter of Joel and Mary Mulvin Thompson. Born April 1819. Died April 1843.
Memorial of/Margaret Thompson/Daughter of Joel/and Mary Thompson/Who died April 29, 1843/Aged 24 years and 18 days
1973 Cemetery Readings. Thompson Burying Ground. Cheney Records say April 29, 1843
Samuel Thompson. Son of Joel and Mary Mulvin Thompson. Born January 1821. Died 1891.
Jane Jemima. Daughter of Joel and Mary Mulvin Thompson. Born January 1823. Married David Coe. Died February 24, 1898.
Caleb. Son of Joel and Mary Mulvin Thompson. Born September 1825. Evergreen Book says 1826. Died December 1862. Wife Lucy Ann – 1829-1900.
John Wesley. Son of Joel and Mary Mulvin Thompson. Born November 1826. Died June 1896. Co. F. 168th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Abraham Lincoln Thompson was his son. Evergreen Book.
Joel Halton. Son of Joel and Mary Mulvin Thompson. Born April 1829. Died October 1863.
Sarah Isobel and twin sister. Daughters of Joel and Mary Mulvin Thompson. Born April 1831. Died May 1833.
Lucilla. Daughter of Joel and Mary Mulvin Thompson. Born August 1833. Died 1878.
Carl Abel. Son of Joel and Mary Mulvin Thompson. Born June 1838. Died in 1862.
Caleb Thompson
1790-1863. Caleb Thompson, son of Abel and Jemima Thompson, was born January 30, 1790. He came to Union Township in the year 1802, with the rest of his family. He was a farmer and a carpenter and joiner who finished many of the first houses in Union City.
Caleb was a veteran of the War of 1812 and according to the 1820 Federal Census in Union Township he was then married with two children. He died on October 15, 1863 at 74 years of age. He was buried in the Thompson Burying Ground outside of Union City.
Miranda Thompson was his first wife. She died on January 22, 1837, at age 28. She left Caleb and two small children. Then he married Clarissa. Their children were:
1. Nelson Thompson. He was born in 1824 and died May 19, 1863 aged 39 years. He was a clothier. (Erie Gazette of June 18 1863)
2. Charles C. Thompson. Born in Union City in 1833. One source says December 14, 1833, the other 1834. He married Amanda Burroughs. They had seven children.
Charles Alanson Thompson was born June 24, 1869, in Union City and reared and educated for the most part by his uncle William Putnam.
William H. Thompson, the second son, was born in 1858 and died in 1924.
Alma Watson Thompson was born in 1866 and died in 1904.
Darwin was born in 1843.
Almont was born in 1846.
Peter was born in 1831.
Almira was born in 1836.
Caleb W. was born in 1844.
Sarah was born in 1849
Mary Jane Eggleston, age 20, was born in new York in 1830 and was included in the household of Caleb Thompson. She may have been a nanny, as they were well off. Or she could have been the oldest daughter of the household who had married and returned home.
Clarissa Thompson/Died April 8, 1879/Aged 75 years/Second wife of Caleb Thompson
1973 Cemetery Readings, Thompson Burying Ground
Cheney Records
Family Records
Miranda Thompson
Departed this life in the full triumph of a glorious immortality on the 22nd of January, 1837, Mrs. Miranda Thompson, consort of Mr. Caleb Thompson of Union Township in this county, in the 28th year of her age. She left a husband and two small children. Erie Gazette, February 2, 1837.
Cheney Records. Old Thompson Burying Ground
Charles Kemp Thompson
1796-1873
He was the son of Abel and Jemima Thompson and was born March 30, 1796 in Union Township. He married Anna Capron, daughter of Charles and Sarah Capron who was born May 11, 1803 in Marlborough, New Hampshire. They went west to Lawrence County, Missouri, about 1846. He died there on December 30, 1873, aged 77 years, six months.
Anna Capron Thompson died on October 15, 1863, age 60 years, 5 months and 4 days. Charles K. is buried in a church graveyard in Lawrence County, Missouri. Anna is buried????? Their children were:
Amos J. Born Monday October 15, 1821 in Union, Erie Pa. Married Elizabeth Hopkins on September 13, 1849. Died March 19, 1873, age 52 years, 5 mos. And 4 days.
Sylvia, born Tuesday, March 23, 1824, in Union, Erie, Pa. Married James Moore on November 8 , 1846.
Elvina. Born Saturday, March 11, 1826, in Union, Erie Pa. married Alvin Wood, on February 22, 1845, in Belvidere Illinois. Died August 3, 1849, age 23 years, 5 mos and 23 days.
Asa. Born Monday October 27, 1828, in Union, Erie, Pa. Died October 30, 1831 in Erie Pa., age 3 years and 4 days.
Nathan Winton. Born, Sunday, August 7, 1831, in Union, Erie, Pa. Died December 8, 1890, age 59 years, 4 mos. And 1 day. Burial at Pikerel, Nebraska.
Sarah. Born Wednesday, September 25, 1833, in Union, Erie, Pa. Married Levi Houts on September 21, 1851 in Muscoda, Wisconsin. Died June 19, 1905, age 77 years, 9 ms and 5 days. She is buried in Portis, Kansas Cemetery.
Anna. Born Sunday August 21, 1836, in Union, Erie, Pa. Died April 13, 1855, Age 18 years, 7 months and 23 days. She married Richard Huston.
Asa Abel. Born Friday, September 27, 1839, in Clinton, Wayne Co., Ohio, the eighth child of Charles Kemp and Anna Capron Thompson. His family moved to Wisconsin 1846. He enlisted in the Union Army in April 1861 in the Third Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry and was discharged in July 1864. After returning to Grant Co. in Wisconsin, he stayed for about a year and then moved Charles City, Iowa, in 1865. Then he moved to Lawrence County, Missouri. He came to Mitchell Co., Kansas, in November 1875.
In 1877, he took a homestead in Lulu Township. He was a very ambitious man. In 1877, he opened a stock of general merchandise in Glen Elder, having started with capital housed in a building 30 x 60 feet. He also opened a store in Scottsville, Kansas and owned a large stock of good. He married Elizabeth Blunt in Charles City, Iowa on January 28, 1866.
Charles Harvey, born Thursday, November 3, 1841, in Loraine Co., Ohio. Died August 1, 1862, at age 20 years, 8 months, and 28 days. He starved to death in Andersonville Prison during the Civil War.
Infant son. Born October 10, 1844 in Belvidere, Illinois.
Darwin D. Born Friday, July 31, 1846, in Platteville, Grant County, Wisconsin. Died July 10, 1864, age 17 years, 10 months and 20 days. He died in Libby Prison during the Civil War. (Sources: An old family bible belonging to Charles Kemp Thompson)
1840 Census Ohio, Millcreek Twp. P. 50, 1855, State Census, Grand Co., Wi. Muscoda p. 5, 1860 Census, Grant Co., Wi) 1820 Federal Census, Erie Co., Pa. Union Township. Charles Thompson, head of household. M; 1 (26-45) f: 1 916-26) 1 in agriculture.
Elvira Thompson. Daughter of Charles Kemp and Anna Thompson. Born 1825. Died??
Amy Thompson. Born 1836. Died in 1854.
Cheney Records are in Erie County Historical Society
The Evergreen Cemetery Book is at the Union City Historical Museum
Abel Thompson. Married Jemima Kemp on September 28, 1778. She died on November 15, 1816. Abel married as a second wife Tamar Gray Ames.
Abel’s Children by Jemima:
Job- 1779-1852
Mary- 1781-1815. Married Conrad Kile.
Sarah-Born November 10, 1792. Died February 24, 1862. Married Aaron Boylan II on December 20, 1809. They were married by Hugh Wilson, esq.
Aron- Born august 30, 1783. Died August 30, 1783.
Abel Jr. – 1785. Went West.
Joel Thompson
Joel. 1788. He was a blacksmith and a stonecutter. Along with his father, Abel, he found boulders in the woods and from them made grinders for the new mills in Union Township. Joel made most of the tombstones in the township from native stone and he and Abel also made all of the farming and household utensils for the community. According to county histories, Joel was a veteran in the War of 1812, serving under Perry. He also held the degree of bachelor of sciences.
Joel Thompson was married three times. His first wife, Margaret Smith Thompson, was married three times. His first wife, Margaret Smith Thompson, died of fever, leaving a daughter, Nancy. He remarried Mary Mulvin, and had eight children from his second marriage. They were: William, Samuel, Caleb, John W., Charles, Margaret, Jane J. and Lucilla. After Mary died in December 1868, he married Elizabeth Wilson who survived him. His son Charles died of diarrhea contracted in the army during the Civil War. Joel died August 21, 1868.
Joel Thompson. Son of Abel and Jemima Thompson. Born January 14, 1788. Family records say he died in Union Township on August 21, 1868. Joel Thompson aged 80 years. Erie Observer, September 3, 1868. August 27, 1868.
Old Thompson Burying Ground-Tombstone
To the Memory /Of/Margaret Thompson/Who died march 27, 1813. Aged/23 years. She was Margaret Smith Thompson, Joel’s first wife. They were married in 1812.
Her flesh shall slumber in the ground/Till the last trumpets-----sound/Then burst her bonds-----/
And in her savior-----/Of Joel Thompson-----/She was the c------/Tis hop’d shes gone-----/
Of joys forever new./She left him and one infant dear/
Her loss for to deplore/But they’d hope to meet her whare/
Thares pleasures evermore.
1973 Thompson Cemetery Readings
Nancy Thompson was the “one infant dear” mentioned in her mother’s epitaph. Her mother died five days after her birth. Nancy was born March 21, 1813, and died in November 1895. She married Daniel Bunting and raised a family. Daniel was born in 1800 and died in 1891. Daniel’s parents were Septama and Samuel Bunting. Samuel was born in Bucks County, Pa. in 1743. Septama was the daughter of Edmund and Margaret Cowgill of Burlington, New Jersey. They married at Falls Meeting of the Society of Friends in Bucks County. They came to Erie County about 1797.
The Buntings had five children:
1. Margaret married in Bucks County.
2. Tamazine married in 1812 in Le Boeuf Township, Erie County.
3. John Stockard Bunting was born in 1780 and died in 1856. He married Elizabeth Black (1798-1848) in 1817.
4. Edmund married May-------.
5. Daniel Bunting (1800-1891) He married Nancy Thompson, Joel’s daughter, in 1833.
Memorial of/Mary. Wife of/Joel Thompson/Who died December 28, 1868/Aged 65 years.\1973 Cemetery Readings
Cheney Records say 1858
Joel’s Other Children
Elizabeth and twin sister. Children of Joel and Mary Mulvin Thompson. Born 1815. Died 1815. Probably in Thompson Burying Ground.
William J. Thompson. Son of Joel and Mary Mulvin Thompson. Born April 1817. Died December 1896.
Margaret Thompson. Daughter of Joel and Mary Mulvin Thompson. Born April 1819. Died April 1843.
Memorial of/Margaret Thompson/Daughter of Joel/and Mary Thompson/Who died April 29, 1843/Aged 24 years and 18 days
1973 Cemetery Readings. Thompson Burying Ground. Cheney Records say April 29, 1843
Samuel Thompson. Son of Joel and Mary Mulvin Thompson. Born January 1821. Died 1891.
Jane Jemima. Daughter of Joel and Mary Mulvin Thompson. Born January 1823. Married David Coe. Died February 24, 1898.
Caleb. Son of Joel and Mary Mulvin Thompson. Born September 1825. Evergreen Book says 1826. Died December 1862. Wife Lucy Ann – 1829-1900.
John Wesley. Son of Joel and Mary Mulvin Thompson. Born November 1826. Died June 1896. Co. F. 168th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Abraham Lincoln Thompson was his son. Evergreen Book.
Joel Halton. Son of Joel and Mary Mulvin Thompson. Born April 1829. Died October 1863.
Sarah Isobel and twin sister. Daughters of Joel and Mary Mulvin Thompson. Born April 1831. Died May 1833.
Lucilla. Daughter of Joel and Mary Mulvin Thompson. Born August 1833. Died 1878.
Carl Abel. Son of Joel and Mary Mulvin Thompson. Born June 1838. Died in 1862.
Caleb Thompson
1790-1863. Caleb Thompson, son of Abel and Jemima Thompson, was born January 30, 1790. He came to Union Township in the year 1802, with the rest of his family. He was a farmer and a carpenter and joiner who finished many of the first houses in Union City.
Caleb was a veteran of the War of 1812 and according to the 1820 Federal Census in Union Township he was then married with two children. He died on October 15, 1863 at 74 years of age. He was buried in the Thompson Burying Ground outside of Union City.
Miranda Thompson was his first wife. She died on January 22, 1837, at age 28. She left Caleb and two small children. Then he married Clarissa. Their children were:
1. Nelson Thompson. He was born in 1824 and died May 19, 1863 aged 39 years. He was a clothier. (Erie Gazette of June 18 1863)
2. Charles C. Thompson. Born in Union City in 1833. One source says December 14, 1833, the other 1834. He married Amanda Burroughs. They had seven children.
Charles Alanson Thompson was born June 24, 1869, in Union City and reared and educated for the most part by his uncle William Putnam.
William H. Thompson, the second son, was born in 1858 and died in 1924.
Alma Watson Thompson was born in 1866 and died in 1904.
Darwin was born in 1843.
Almont was born in 1846.
Peter was born in 1831.
Almira was born in 1836.
Caleb W. was born in 1844.
Sarah was born in 1849
Mary Jane Eggleston, age 20, was born in new York in 1830 and was included in the household of Caleb Thompson. She may have been a nanny, as they were well off. Or she could have been the oldest daughter of the household who had married and returned home.
Clarissa Thompson/Died April 8, 1879/Aged 75 years/Second wife of Caleb Thompson
1973 Cemetery Readings, Thompson Burying Ground
Cheney Records
Family Records
Miranda Thompson
Departed this life in the full triumph of a glorious immortality on the 22nd of January, 1837, Mrs. Miranda Thompson, consort of Mr. Caleb Thompson of Union Township in this county, in the 28th year of her age. She left a husband and two small children. Erie Gazette, February 2, 1837.
Cheney Records. Old Thompson Burying Ground
Charles Kemp Thompson
1796-1873
He was the son of Abel and Jemima Thompson and was born March 30, 1796 in Union Township. He married Anna Capron, daughter of Charles and Sarah Capron who was born May 11, 1803 in Marlborough, New Hampshire. They went west to Lawrence County, Missouri, about 1846. He died there on December 30, 1873, aged 77 years, six months.
Anna Capron Thompson died on October 15, 1863, age 60 years, 5 months and 4 days. Charles K. is buried in a church graveyard in Lawrence County, Missouri. Anna is buried????? Their children were:
Amos J. Born Monday October 15, 1821 in Union, Erie Pa. Married Elizabeth Hopkins on September 13, 1849. Died March 19, 1873, age 52 years, 5 mos. And 4 days.
Sylvia, born Tuesday, March 23, 1824, in Union, Erie, Pa. Married James Moore on November 8 , 1846.
Elvina. Born Saturday, March 11, 1826, in Union, Erie Pa. married Alvin Wood, on February 22, 1845, in Belvidere Illinois. Died August 3, 1849, age 23 years, 5 mos and 23 days.
Asa. Born Monday October 27, 1828, in Union, Erie, Pa. Died October 30, 1831 in Erie Pa., age 3 years and 4 days.
Nathan Winton. Born, Sunday, August 7, 1831, in Union, Erie, Pa. Died December 8, 1890, age 59 years, 4 mos. And 1 day. Burial at Pikerel, Nebraska.
Sarah. Born Wednesday, September 25, 1833, in Union, Erie, Pa. Married Levi Houts on September 21, 1851 in Muscoda, Wisconsin. Died June 19, 1905, age 77 years, 9 ms and 5 days. She is buried in Portis, Kansas Cemetery.
Anna. Born Sunday August 21, 1836, in Union, Erie, Pa. Died April 13, 1855, Age 18 years, 7 months and 23 days. She married Richard Huston.
Asa Abel. Born Friday, September 27, 1839, in Clinton, Wayne Co., Ohio, the eighth child of Charles Kemp and Anna Capron Thompson. His family moved to Wisconsin 1846. He enlisted in the Union Army in April 1861 in the Third Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry and was discharged in July 1864. After returning to Grant Co. in Wisconsin, he stayed for about a year and then moved Charles City, Iowa, in 1865. Then he moved to Lawrence County, Missouri. He came to Mitchell Co., Kansas, in November 1875.
In 1877, he took a homestead in Lulu Township. He was a very ambitious man. In 1877, he opened a stock of general merchandise in Glen Elder, having started with capital housed in a building 30 x 60 feet. He also opened a store in Scottsville, Kansas and owned a large stock of good. He married Elizabeth Blunt in Charles City, Iowa on January 28, 1866.
Charles Harvey, born Thursday, November 3, 1841, in Loraine Co., Ohio. Died August 1, 1862, at age 20 years, 8 months, and 28 days. He starved to death in Andersonville Prison during the Civil War.
Infant son. Born October 10, 1844 in Belvidere, Illinois.
Darwin D. Born Friday, July 31, 1846, in Platteville, Grant County, Wisconsin. Died July 10, 1864, age 17 years, 10 months and 20 days. He died in Libby Prison during the Civil War. (Sources: An old family bible belonging to Charles Kemp Thompson)
1840 Census Ohio, Millcreek Twp. P. 50, 1855, State Census, Grand Co., Wi. Muscoda p. 5, 1860 Census, Grant Co., Wi) 1820 Federal Census, Erie Co., Pa. Union Township. Charles Thompson, head of household. M; 1 (26-45) f: 1 916-26) 1 in agriculture.
Elvira Thompson. Daughter of Charles Kemp and Anna Thompson. Born 1825. Died??
Amy Thompson. Born 1836. Died in 1854.