More About the Thompson Family
Job Thompson
Job Thompson II was the son of Abel Thompson the first. Job was born on August 4, 1779 and he died on April 20, 1852, in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Family records show that his wife Isabella is buried in he Thompson Burying ground so he might be buried there as well.
Isabella Thompson, wife of Job, was born August 20, 1775, and she died on May 28, 1855.
Family Records say: Isabel. Born July 10, 1775. Died: May 28, 1855. Job and Isabella were married in 1800.
Inscription, Old Thompson Cemetery, Union City. Isabell/Wife of Job/Thompson/Died May 2, 1855/79 yrs. 10 mos./18ds.
The children of Job and Isabella Thompson:
Henry Thompson. born March 14, 1801. Died February 20, 1846. He married Eliza Ames.
Samuel Swain. Born January 23, 1803 in New Jersey. Died July 16, 1874 in Union City. Buried in Evergreen Cemetery.
Reuben Kemp Thompson. Born March 18, 1805. Died February 13, 1881.
John Thompson. born February 19, 1807. Died November 4, 1866.
Thomas Shinn Thompson. Born February 15, 1809. Died July 20, 1864.
Elizabeth Thompson. Born october 7, 1811. Died December 22, 1891.
Isabel Thompson. Born March 14, 1816. Died July 15, 1832. She married Elna Ames, son of Ben and Tamar Gray Ames.
Josiah Thompson. born July 15, 1819. Died January 3, 1886.
Samuel Swain Thompson was a wheel wright by trade and it was a useful trade in Union City. He was an honest, upright, yet modest Christian man and his children and family thought of him with love and reverence. Twice married, he had 12 children, 9 of whom he lived to bury. In January 1895, he had two children, 17 grandchildren and 37 great grand children.
Samuel Thompson. Samuel Swain, son of Job & Isabel. His obituary is in the Erie Gazette of July 28, 1874. The Erie observer, records his death in a column dated January 1875. Deaths in 1874. He is in the Cheney Records in the Erie County Historical Society.
Page 79 of the Evergreen Cemetery Book records his life and death. He was born on January 23, 1803. Died July 16, 1874.
Betsey/Wife of/Samuel S. Thompson/Died/May 9, 1842
Aged 37 years.
1973. Cemetery Readings. Old Thompson Burying Ground. She was Betsey Ames. Born November 20, 1805, died May 9, 1842. They married October 26, 1823.
Their children:
Sally. Born July 15, 1824. Died February 10, 1827. Probably buried in the Old Thompson Burying Ground.
A son, born July 8, 1826. Died July 10, 1826. Old Thompson Burying Ground.
Lucinda. Born may 5, 1828. Died June 6, 1828. Old Thompson Burying Ground.
Samuel Luckey. Born July 23, 1830.
A son. Born November 26, 1833. Died November 26, 1833. Old Thompson Burying Ground.
Horace Eaton. Born June 2, 1835. Died June 9, 1855. 1973 Cemetery Readings
Horace E./Son of Sam;l and Betsey Thompson
Born 1835
Died June 9, 1855
Aged 20 yr. 7 days
Cynthia Amelia. Born April 4, 1838 and died in 1925. Cynthia Amelia married Wesley Davison who was born in March 1835 and died in 1900. They were married on March 13, 1856. Their children were: Arthur, Albert, Adelaide, Clinton, Georgia, Kitty, Belle, Samuel Thompson, Jennie N., Alfred, Anna, Annie and Charles.
Mary Palmer Thompson. Second wife of Samuel S. She was born on September 8, 1808 and married Samuel on September 5, 1843. She died on April 12, 1873. They had a son Palmer L. Palmer who died on December 24, 1866. He committed suicide at 19 years, 7 months, 19 days according to the Evergreen Book, p. 79.
Samuel L. Thompson, son of Samuel S. and grandson of Job and Isabel.
Samuel Luckey Thompson, son of Samuel Thompson. Born July 23, 1830. Married Sophia Robbins in 1856. Sophia died and he married a second wife, Melissa Oaks. Their children were Bertha and Ida.
Estella Thompson. Daughter of Samuel Luckey and Sophia Thompson. Born August 6, 1857. Died?
Ada Thompson. Daughter of Samuel L. and Sophia Thompson. Born February 1, 1859.
Delia Thompson. Daughter of Samuel L. and Sophia Thompson. Born February 1, 1861. Died February 1, 1861.
Samuel R. Thompson. Son of Samuel L. and Sophia Thompson.
Edwin E. Thompson. Son of Samuel L. and Sophia Thompson.
Evergreen Book: Edwin D. Thompson, 1879-1958. p. 143
Wife: Bessie E. 1879-1943
Maud Thompson. Daughter of Samuel L. and Sophia Thompson
Madge Thompson. Daughter of Samuel L. and Sophia Thompson
Abel Thompson #2
Son of Abel and Jemima Thompson
Abel Thompson #2. Son of Abel and Jemima Thompson. Born August 14, 1785. Died April 26, 1861. Family record says he was born April 14, 1785.
Katherine (Caty) Boylan, wife of Abel Thompson. Born October 7, 1791. Died February 2, 1849. They were married on January 26, 1809.
William Boylan Thompson. Son of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born October 22, 1809. Died March 24, 1836.
Eliza Thompson. Daughter of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born October 22, 1809. Died March 24, 1836.
Eliza Thompson. Daughter of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born April 24, 1811. Died May, 1879. She married Daniel Newmaker and their children were: John, Sarah J., Henry, Catherine and Francis.
Joel Thompson. Son of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born January 6, 1815. Died December 21, 1846. Married Nancy Simpson.
Abel Thompson III. Son of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born October 31, 1818. Died February 15, 1876. Married Margaret J. Bell.
Ransom Smith Thompson. Son of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born October 6, 1820. Married Sarah Sheppard on June 11, 1840. Died????
John W. Thompson. Son of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born May 10,1822. Died July 24, 1901. Family Record says: Born May 14, 1822. Died July 24, 1902. He married Sarah Bell on January 1, 1846. Sarah Bell was born on March 17, 1828. She died January 12, 1909.
Sarah Bell and John W. Thompson's children were:
Hannah Angeline Thompson, born December 18, 1846
Emeline Thompson, born October 28, 1848 and died July 2, 1852
Alvina, born August 8, 1851
Albert Hugh, born October 1, 1853
John Bell, born April 30, 1856 and died March 31, 1858
Perry Newton, born August 3, 1858 and died December 22, 1924. He is buried in Evergreen Cemetery
William Harvey, born March 15, 1861. He is buried in Evergreen Cemetery.
Emily Alice, born December 25, 1869
Sarah Thompson. Daughter of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born August 25, 1824 and died January 4, 1870. She married Lorenzo Brakeman on March 11, 1846.
Aron Thompson, son of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born November 1, 1826 and died May 21, 1860.
Caty Thompson. daughter of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born May 21, 1830. Died February 14, 1836.
Mary Thompson. daughter of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born August 13, 1835. Died September 29, 1839.
Polly Jane Thompson. Daughter of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born may 29, 1838. Died?
Charles Thompson. Son of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born october 31, 1818. Died February 15, 1876.
Abel Thompson married his second wife. Sarah Bomer, on December 20, 1849.
Sarah Thompson
Sarah Thompson. Daughter of Abel and Jemima Thompson . Born november 10, 1792. died February 24, 1862. Married Aaron Boylan II on December 20, 1809. They were married by Hugh Wilson, Esq.
Children of Sarah and Aaron Boylan II
Pheby Boylan. Born September 18, 1810
Lavina Boylan. Born May 27, 1812. Died February 12, 1874.
An infant son. born December 27, 1813. Died December 27, 1813
An infant son. Born January 5, 1816. Died January 5, 1816.
Caleb Boylan. Born September 29, 1821. Died September 10, 1840
Two infant sons. Born May 23, 1826. Died May 23, 1826.
Jemima Jane Boylan. Born June 1, 1830. Died May 20, 1858. Married Lou Ballard.
Catherine Louise Boylan. Born May 18, 1834. Died February 15, 1858. Married D.A. Brakeman.
Margaret Marinda. Born August 29, 1837. Died September 12, 1837
Mary Thompson Kile
Mary Thompson was the daughter of Abel Thompson and Jemima Kemp.
Mary Thompson was born January 1, 1781 and she died January 22, 1815. The family records say that she was born June 17, 1781 and died on June 27, 1815. She married Conrad Kile. They could be buried in the Thompson Burying ground as there are several local connections.
Mary and Conrad Kile's children:
Betsey, daughter of Mary Thompson and Conrad Kile. She was born on march 7, 1797. She married Nat Cottrell.
Nancy, Joel's daughter by Margaret Smith Thompson married Daniel Bunting. According to a genealogy in the Erie Gazette of April 24, 1873, Daniel's sister Tamazine Bunting married Benjamin Cottrell in LeBoeuf Township in Erie County in 1812. Their children were: Elizabeth, Martha, and Septama. Septama was born in 1817 and married James S. Moore in 1846. One of their children was James E. Moore who was born in 1847. He married Nancy Betts and had a son James G. Moore. Daniel Buntings' brother John Stockdale Bunting was born in 1780 and died in 1856.
In 1817, he married Elizabeth Black who was born in 1798 and died in 1848. Their children were Mary Ann (1818-1843); Nancy (1819-1899) who married Merrick Purdy; and Levi (1821-1894) who married Nancy A. Range (1825-1911). In Evergreen Cemetery is buried Levi C. Bunting (1854-1936) and Amanda A. (1854-1938) the next generation.
Henry Myers was a Revolutionary War soldier who had a daughter named Nancy ann. She married John Range Jr. John Range Senior had served as a first lieutenant of the 5thCo. 4th Bat. York County Pa. He was the first white settler east of the Allegheny River within the lands of Forest County, Pennsylvania. He established a farm at what is now Tionesta, Pennsylvania in 1816.
John Range Sr. immigrated from Adams County where he settled immediately after the war. Being successful in business, he acquired considerable property. One of his sons, John Jr., born on April 8, 1772, married Nancy Ann Myers on April 12, 1798. Nancy Ann Myers was born June 4, 1784, and died on December 8, 1860. She is the Aunt Nancy Range that Arch Bristow writes about in Old Times Tales of Warren County. He describes her as an herb doctor and medicine lady and says that she is buried in "a hilltop cemetery outside of Union City." Because of these family connections, it is possible that she is burned in the Thompson Burying Ground.
Jemima, daughter of Mary Thompson and Conrad Kile. Born February 12, 1799. She married Isaac Moore, a blacksmith and a miner. Their grave inscriptions are in Tallmadge Cemetery.
Isaac Moore/Died March 22, 1857. Wife: Jemima, qu.v. Jemima/Wife of Isaac Moore/died/March 14, 1868/Aged 70 years.
Inscription, Asbury Cemetery, Union Township. James S. Moore/Died/ May 11, 1870. Aged 64 years. Their son?: Inscription, Asbury Cemetery, Union Twp. S.S. Moore. Died April 22, 1851. Aged 78 years. On the lot with James S. Moore, q.v.
There is probably a Revolutionary War connection here too, because: Donation Lands. Robert Moore. Treasurer's sale of unseated lands. Erie Gazette, Saturday, March 4, 1820. Union Township. Donation lands. Names: Robert Moore; tract 187; acres, 500; years, 1818-19; tax, $9.69
Job, son of Mary Thompson and Conrad Kile. Born December 13, 1800. Married Miss Holloway.
Abel. Born December 3, 1802. Unmarried. He is possibly buried at the Thompson Burying Ground.
Joh. Born February 8, 1805. He married and had ten children. He was killed by Indians while on his way to California.
Conrad, Jr. Born February 26, 1807. Married in Philadelphia.
Sarah, daughter of Mary Thompson and Conrad Kile. She was born May 5, 1810. She married John Dunham. A Daniel Dunham came into Union Township in 1836 from New York State. he died in Union on April 21, 1849. Mrs. Daniel Dunham, wife of Daniel Dunham, of Union. Erie Gazette, may 3, 1849.
The Evergreen Cemetery Book, p. 74, has a J.C. Dunham Lot. On page 75 is Daniel Dunham. He died on April 22, 1849. A.E. 59 years and 7 days. Elizabeth, wife of John Dunham/Died June 26 1845/Aged 87 yrs 11 months. If Sarah married this John Dunham, she might have died young? In childbirth? She probably is buried in the Thompson Burying Ground. There is no record of her at Evergreen.
Mary, daughter of Mary Thompson and Conrad Kile. She was born June 25 1812. She married Robert Emerson. She died September 18, 1881 at Union City, Pa. Had children or child. He died on December 9, 1889 in Union City. Robert Emerson's father, Abram Emerson came into Union Township in 1821 from New York State.
These Emersons could be at Thompson Burying Ground:
Isaac M. Emerson. 1831-1914. Inscription, Asbury Cemetery, Union Township
Wife: Sarah L. q.v.
Mary Emerson. Inscription. Asbury Cemetery. Union Township.
Mary/Wife of Robert Emerson/Died/September 17, 1881/Aged 80 years.
Robert Emerson/Died/December 9, 1889
Aged 81 years
Wife: Mary, q.v.
Sarah L. Emerson/1841-1898
Wife of Isaac M. q.v.
Tamar Gray Ames Thompson- Abel Thompson's Second Wife
Tamar Gray Ames Thompson. Born March 2, 1757. Second wife of Abel #1. Married 1821.
Abel's children by Tamar:
Robert Gray-July 7, 1822
Daughter - 1824-1825
Abel Thompson's Obituary
Departed this life on the evening of the 3rd instant, at his residence in Union Township in the 84th year of his age, Mr. Abel Thompson; he was a native of New Jersey where he was left an orphan child, and where he married his first wife, also an orphan. He removed his family in the year 1790 to Fayette County Pa., where he resided until 1802 when he removed to Union where he continued to reside on the same farm until his decease.
He had 8 children by his first wife, 6 of whom have survived him; and 2 by his second wife, one of whom survives with his widowed mother to mourn their loss.
Father Thompson has had 80 grand children, 42 great grand children and 3 great great grandchildren- the aggregate number of direct descendants 165, from these two orphan children who now lie side by side in the family burying ground on his late residence.
Father Thompson took part in the revolutionary struggle, and lived long to enjoy the blessings of liberty and independence so gloriously achieved by the contemporaries of his age and arms: and had he survived a few hours longer he would have seen the light of the anniversary of our glorious independence in 1840. But we trust he has gone to celebrate the joys of that glorious victory achieved by the captain of our Salvation.
Another Thompson Relative
Mr. Robert Gray was born in Huntingdon Co., Pa., on December 21, 1798 and was therefore a little over 80 years old at the time of his death in 1878. He was next to the youngest of a family of eight children and in 1806 came with his father's family to this part of the State, where they located at Beaver Damn. In 1820, the family moved to Waterford, Robert remaining with them until the winter of 1823 when, on the 15th of December he married Miss Jane Smith, a daughter of another of the early pioneers of Erie County, and at once removed with his new made bride to the farm, some two miles south of Union City, now known as the "Gray farm," where they took up their abode in a new house which Mr. Gray had previously erected, though it was not yet completed when he and his young wife took possession of it was their future home.
Union Township was then little more than a wilderness, but the forests melted away before the sturdy strokes of the woodman's axe and Mr. Gray cleared and occupied the same farm for nearly half a century, when he left it and removed to his late residence at the corner of Third Avenue and South Streets in Union city, where he has lived ever since.
Through industry, prudence and good management, he acquired a handsome competency and though their union was never blessed with any children of their own, yet the hearts and home of Mr. and Mrs. Gray were opened to several children toward whom, for many years, they discharged the duties of parents with fidelity, and ever after regarded these, their foster children, with true paternal solicitude.
Among those who have thus been members of their household and who, we are sure, delight to own Mr. and Mrs. Gray as their kind foster parents we may mention Mr. J.S. Thompson of Union city, and his sister Sarah Jane Thompson, now Mrs. Nathan Mitchell, also Miss Hannah Jane Gray, afterward Mrs. Thomas Warden and others who are now occupying useful and respectable positions in society.
Mr. Gray was the last survivor of the family, all his brothers and sisters having died before him. He was a man of sterling integrity and strictest honor, and we doubt if any man can truthfully say that he has ever been wronged by Robert Gray. He has always enjoyed in a high degree, he confidence and esteem of his neighbors and fellow citizens, being frequently elected in various township offices, also to the office of County Commissioner one term and that of County auditor one term.
Early in life he united with the Presbyterian Church to which he was devotedly attached.
Job Thompson II was the son of Abel Thompson the first. Job was born on August 4, 1779 and he died on April 20, 1852, in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Family records show that his wife Isabella is buried in he Thompson Burying ground so he might be buried there as well.
Isabella Thompson, wife of Job, was born August 20, 1775, and she died on May 28, 1855.
Family Records say: Isabel. Born July 10, 1775. Died: May 28, 1855. Job and Isabella were married in 1800.
Inscription, Old Thompson Cemetery, Union City. Isabell/Wife of Job/Thompson/Died May 2, 1855/79 yrs. 10 mos./18ds.
The children of Job and Isabella Thompson:
Henry Thompson. born March 14, 1801. Died February 20, 1846. He married Eliza Ames.
Samuel Swain. Born January 23, 1803 in New Jersey. Died July 16, 1874 in Union City. Buried in Evergreen Cemetery.
Reuben Kemp Thompson. Born March 18, 1805. Died February 13, 1881.
John Thompson. born February 19, 1807. Died November 4, 1866.
Thomas Shinn Thompson. Born February 15, 1809. Died July 20, 1864.
Elizabeth Thompson. Born october 7, 1811. Died December 22, 1891.
Isabel Thompson. Born March 14, 1816. Died July 15, 1832. She married Elna Ames, son of Ben and Tamar Gray Ames.
Josiah Thompson. born July 15, 1819. Died January 3, 1886.
Samuel Swain Thompson was a wheel wright by trade and it was a useful trade in Union City. He was an honest, upright, yet modest Christian man and his children and family thought of him with love and reverence. Twice married, he had 12 children, 9 of whom he lived to bury. In January 1895, he had two children, 17 grandchildren and 37 great grand children.
Samuel Thompson. Samuel Swain, son of Job & Isabel. His obituary is in the Erie Gazette of July 28, 1874. The Erie observer, records his death in a column dated January 1875. Deaths in 1874. He is in the Cheney Records in the Erie County Historical Society.
Page 79 of the Evergreen Cemetery Book records his life and death. He was born on January 23, 1803. Died July 16, 1874.
Betsey/Wife of/Samuel S. Thompson/Died/May 9, 1842
Aged 37 years.
1973. Cemetery Readings. Old Thompson Burying Ground. She was Betsey Ames. Born November 20, 1805, died May 9, 1842. They married October 26, 1823.
Their children:
Sally. Born July 15, 1824. Died February 10, 1827. Probably buried in the Old Thompson Burying Ground.
A son, born July 8, 1826. Died July 10, 1826. Old Thompson Burying Ground.
Lucinda. Born may 5, 1828. Died June 6, 1828. Old Thompson Burying Ground.
Samuel Luckey. Born July 23, 1830.
A son. Born November 26, 1833. Died November 26, 1833. Old Thompson Burying Ground.
Horace Eaton. Born June 2, 1835. Died June 9, 1855. 1973 Cemetery Readings
Horace E./Son of Sam;l and Betsey Thompson
Born 1835
Died June 9, 1855
Aged 20 yr. 7 days
Cynthia Amelia. Born April 4, 1838 and died in 1925. Cynthia Amelia married Wesley Davison who was born in March 1835 and died in 1900. They were married on March 13, 1856. Their children were: Arthur, Albert, Adelaide, Clinton, Georgia, Kitty, Belle, Samuel Thompson, Jennie N., Alfred, Anna, Annie and Charles.
Mary Palmer Thompson. Second wife of Samuel S. She was born on September 8, 1808 and married Samuel on September 5, 1843. She died on April 12, 1873. They had a son Palmer L. Palmer who died on December 24, 1866. He committed suicide at 19 years, 7 months, 19 days according to the Evergreen Book, p. 79.
Samuel L. Thompson, son of Samuel S. and grandson of Job and Isabel.
Samuel Luckey Thompson, son of Samuel Thompson. Born July 23, 1830. Married Sophia Robbins in 1856. Sophia died and he married a second wife, Melissa Oaks. Their children were Bertha and Ida.
Estella Thompson. Daughter of Samuel Luckey and Sophia Thompson. Born August 6, 1857. Died?
Ada Thompson. Daughter of Samuel L. and Sophia Thompson. Born February 1, 1859.
Delia Thompson. Daughter of Samuel L. and Sophia Thompson. Born February 1, 1861. Died February 1, 1861.
Samuel R. Thompson. Son of Samuel L. and Sophia Thompson.
Edwin E. Thompson. Son of Samuel L. and Sophia Thompson.
Evergreen Book: Edwin D. Thompson, 1879-1958. p. 143
Wife: Bessie E. 1879-1943
Maud Thompson. Daughter of Samuel L. and Sophia Thompson
Madge Thompson. Daughter of Samuel L. and Sophia Thompson
Abel Thompson #2
Son of Abel and Jemima Thompson
Abel Thompson #2. Son of Abel and Jemima Thompson. Born August 14, 1785. Died April 26, 1861. Family record says he was born April 14, 1785.
Katherine (Caty) Boylan, wife of Abel Thompson. Born October 7, 1791. Died February 2, 1849. They were married on January 26, 1809.
William Boylan Thompson. Son of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born October 22, 1809. Died March 24, 1836.
Eliza Thompson. Daughter of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born October 22, 1809. Died March 24, 1836.
Eliza Thompson. Daughter of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born April 24, 1811. Died May, 1879. She married Daniel Newmaker and their children were: John, Sarah J., Henry, Catherine and Francis.
Joel Thompson. Son of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born January 6, 1815. Died December 21, 1846. Married Nancy Simpson.
Abel Thompson III. Son of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born October 31, 1818. Died February 15, 1876. Married Margaret J. Bell.
Ransom Smith Thompson. Son of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born October 6, 1820. Married Sarah Sheppard on June 11, 1840. Died????
John W. Thompson. Son of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born May 10,1822. Died July 24, 1901. Family Record says: Born May 14, 1822. Died July 24, 1902. He married Sarah Bell on January 1, 1846. Sarah Bell was born on March 17, 1828. She died January 12, 1909.
Sarah Bell and John W. Thompson's children were:
Hannah Angeline Thompson, born December 18, 1846
Emeline Thompson, born October 28, 1848 and died July 2, 1852
Alvina, born August 8, 1851
Albert Hugh, born October 1, 1853
John Bell, born April 30, 1856 and died March 31, 1858
Perry Newton, born August 3, 1858 and died December 22, 1924. He is buried in Evergreen Cemetery
William Harvey, born March 15, 1861. He is buried in Evergreen Cemetery.
Emily Alice, born December 25, 1869
Sarah Thompson. Daughter of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born August 25, 1824 and died January 4, 1870. She married Lorenzo Brakeman on March 11, 1846.
Aron Thompson, son of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born November 1, 1826 and died May 21, 1860.
Caty Thompson. daughter of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born May 21, 1830. Died February 14, 1836.
Mary Thompson. daughter of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born August 13, 1835. Died September 29, 1839.
Polly Jane Thompson. Daughter of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born may 29, 1838. Died?
Charles Thompson. Son of Abel II and Caty Thompson. Born october 31, 1818. Died February 15, 1876.
Abel Thompson married his second wife. Sarah Bomer, on December 20, 1849.
Sarah Thompson
Sarah Thompson. Daughter of Abel and Jemima Thompson . Born november 10, 1792. died February 24, 1862. Married Aaron Boylan II on December 20, 1809. They were married by Hugh Wilson, Esq.
Children of Sarah and Aaron Boylan II
Pheby Boylan. Born September 18, 1810
Lavina Boylan. Born May 27, 1812. Died February 12, 1874.
An infant son. born December 27, 1813. Died December 27, 1813
An infant son. Born January 5, 1816. Died January 5, 1816.
Caleb Boylan. Born September 29, 1821. Died September 10, 1840
Two infant sons. Born May 23, 1826. Died May 23, 1826.
Jemima Jane Boylan. Born June 1, 1830. Died May 20, 1858. Married Lou Ballard.
Catherine Louise Boylan. Born May 18, 1834. Died February 15, 1858. Married D.A. Brakeman.
Margaret Marinda. Born August 29, 1837. Died September 12, 1837
Mary Thompson Kile
Mary Thompson was the daughter of Abel Thompson and Jemima Kemp.
Mary Thompson was born January 1, 1781 and she died January 22, 1815. The family records say that she was born June 17, 1781 and died on June 27, 1815. She married Conrad Kile. They could be buried in the Thompson Burying ground as there are several local connections.
Mary and Conrad Kile's children:
Betsey, daughter of Mary Thompson and Conrad Kile. She was born on march 7, 1797. She married Nat Cottrell.
Nancy, Joel's daughter by Margaret Smith Thompson married Daniel Bunting. According to a genealogy in the Erie Gazette of April 24, 1873, Daniel's sister Tamazine Bunting married Benjamin Cottrell in LeBoeuf Township in Erie County in 1812. Their children were: Elizabeth, Martha, and Septama. Septama was born in 1817 and married James S. Moore in 1846. One of their children was James E. Moore who was born in 1847. He married Nancy Betts and had a son James G. Moore. Daniel Buntings' brother John Stockdale Bunting was born in 1780 and died in 1856.
In 1817, he married Elizabeth Black who was born in 1798 and died in 1848. Their children were Mary Ann (1818-1843); Nancy (1819-1899) who married Merrick Purdy; and Levi (1821-1894) who married Nancy A. Range (1825-1911). In Evergreen Cemetery is buried Levi C. Bunting (1854-1936) and Amanda A. (1854-1938) the next generation.
Henry Myers was a Revolutionary War soldier who had a daughter named Nancy ann. She married John Range Jr. John Range Senior had served as a first lieutenant of the 5thCo. 4th Bat. York County Pa. He was the first white settler east of the Allegheny River within the lands of Forest County, Pennsylvania. He established a farm at what is now Tionesta, Pennsylvania in 1816.
John Range Sr. immigrated from Adams County where he settled immediately after the war. Being successful in business, he acquired considerable property. One of his sons, John Jr., born on April 8, 1772, married Nancy Ann Myers on April 12, 1798. Nancy Ann Myers was born June 4, 1784, and died on December 8, 1860. She is the Aunt Nancy Range that Arch Bristow writes about in Old Times Tales of Warren County. He describes her as an herb doctor and medicine lady and says that she is buried in "a hilltop cemetery outside of Union City." Because of these family connections, it is possible that she is burned in the Thompson Burying Ground.
Jemima, daughter of Mary Thompson and Conrad Kile. Born February 12, 1799. She married Isaac Moore, a blacksmith and a miner. Their grave inscriptions are in Tallmadge Cemetery.
Isaac Moore/Died March 22, 1857. Wife: Jemima, qu.v. Jemima/Wife of Isaac Moore/died/March 14, 1868/Aged 70 years.
Inscription, Asbury Cemetery, Union Township. James S. Moore/Died/ May 11, 1870. Aged 64 years. Their son?: Inscription, Asbury Cemetery, Union Twp. S.S. Moore. Died April 22, 1851. Aged 78 years. On the lot with James S. Moore, q.v.
There is probably a Revolutionary War connection here too, because: Donation Lands. Robert Moore. Treasurer's sale of unseated lands. Erie Gazette, Saturday, March 4, 1820. Union Township. Donation lands. Names: Robert Moore; tract 187; acres, 500; years, 1818-19; tax, $9.69
Job, son of Mary Thompson and Conrad Kile. Born December 13, 1800. Married Miss Holloway.
Abel. Born December 3, 1802. Unmarried. He is possibly buried at the Thompson Burying Ground.
Joh. Born February 8, 1805. He married and had ten children. He was killed by Indians while on his way to California.
Conrad, Jr. Born February 26, 1807. Married in Philadelphia.
Sarah, daughter of Mary Thompson and Conrad Kile. She was born May 5, 1810. She married John Dunham. A Daniel Dunham came into Union Township in 1836 from New York State. he died in Union on April 21, 1849. Mrs. Daniel Dunham, wife of Daniel Dunham, of Union. Erie Gazette, may 3, 1849.
The Evergreen Cemetery Book, p. 74, has a J.C. Dunham Lot. On page 75 is Daniel Dunham. He died on April 22, 1849. A.E. 59 years and 7 days. Elizabeth, wife of John Dunham/Died June 26 1845/Aged 87 yrs 11 months. If Sarah married this John Dunham, she might have died young? In childbirth? She probably is buried in the Thompson Burying Ground. There is no record of her at Evergreen.
Mary, daughter of Mary Thompson and Conrad Kile. She was born June 25 1812. She married Robert Emerson. She died September 18, 1881 at Union City, Pa. Had children or child. He died on December 9, 1889 in Union City. Robert Emerson's father, Abram Emerson came into Union Township in 1821 from New York State.
These Emersons could be at Thompson Burying Ground:
Isaac M. Emerson. 1831-1914. Inscription, Asbury Cemetery, Union Township
Wife: Sarah L. q.v.
Mary Emerson. Inscription. Asbury Cemetery. Union Township.
Mary/Wife of Robert Emerson/Died/September 17, 1881/Aged 80 years.
Robert Emerson/Died/December 9, 1889
Aged 81 years
Wife: Mary, q.v.
Sarah L. Emerson/1841-1898
Wife of Isaac M. q.v.
Tamar Gray Ames Thompson- Abel Thompson's Second Wife
Tamar Gray Ames Thompson. Born March 2, 1757. Second wife of Abel #1. Married 1821.
Abel's children by Tamar:
Robert Gray-July 7, 1822
Daughter - 1824-1825
Abel Thompson's Obituary
Departed this life on the evening of the 3rd instant, at his residence in Union Township in the 84th year of his age, Mr. Abel Thompson; he was a native of New Jersey where he was left an orphan child, and where he married his first wife, also an orphan. He removed his family in the year 1790 to Fayette County Pa., where he resided until 1802 when he removed to Union where he continued to reside on the same farm until his decease.
He had 8 children by his first wife, 6 of whom have survived him; and 2 by his second wife, one of whom survives with his widowed mother to mourn their loss.
Father Thompson has had 80 grand children, 42 great grand children and 3 great great grandchildren- the aggregate number of direct descendants 165, from these two orphan children who now lie side by side in the family burying ground on his late residence.
Father Thompson took part in the revolutionary struggle, and lived long to enjoy the blessings of liberty and independence so gloriously achieved by the contemporaries of his age and arms: and had he survived a few hours longer he would have seen the light of the anniversary of our glorious independence in 1840. But we trust he has gone to celebrate the joys of that glorious victory achieved by the captain of our Salvation.
Another Thompson Relative
Mr. Robert Gray was born in Huntingdon Co., Pa., on December 21, 1798 and was therefore a little over 80 years old at the time of his death in 1878. He was next to the youngest of a family of eight children and in 1806 came with his father's family to this part of the State, where they located at Beaver Damn. In 1820, the family moved to Waterford, Robert remaining with them until the winter of 1823 when, on the 15th of December he married Miss Jane Smith, a daughter of another of the early pioneers of Erie County, and at once removed with his new made bride to the farm, some two miles south of Union City, now known as the "Gray farm," where they took up their abode in a new house which Mr. Gray had previously erected, though it was not yet completed when he and his young wife took possession of it was their future home.
Union Township was then little more than a wilderness, but the forests melted away before the sturdy strokes of the woodman's axe and Mr. Gray cleared and occupied the same farm for nearly half a century, when he left it and removed to his late residence at the corner of Third Avenue and South Streets in Union city, where he has lived ever since.
Through industry, prudence and good management, he acquired a handsome competency and though their union was never blessed with any children of their own, yet the hearts and home of Mr. and Mrs. Gray were opened to several children toward whom, for many years, they discharged the duties of parents with fidelity, and ever after regarded these, their foster children, with true paternal solicitude.
Among those who have thus been members of their household and who, we are sure, delight to own Mr. and Mrs. Gray as their kind foster parents we may mention Mr. J.S. Thompson of Union city, and his sister Sarah Jane Thompson, now Mrs. Nathan Mitchell, also Miss Hannah Jane Gray, afterward Mrs. Thomas Warden and others who are now occupying useful and respectable positions in society.
Mr. Gray was the last survivor of the family, all his brothers and sisters having died before him. He was a man of sterling integrity and strictest honor, and we doubt if any man can truthfully say that he has ever been wronged by Robert Gray. He has always enjoyed in a high degree, he confidence and esteem of his neighbors and fellow citizens, being frequently elected in various township offices, also to the office of County Commissioner one term and that of County auditor one term.
Early in life he united with the Presbyterian Church to which he was devotedly attached.