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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Mary Anne Thompson: Birth: 13 MAY 1823 in Garrard Co KY. Death: 1 JUL 1847 in Liberty, Clay Co, MO

  2. David Thompson: Birth: 25 DEC 1825 in Garrard Co KY. Death: 18 NOV 1891 in Caldwell Co MO

  3. William N. Thompson: Birth: 13 MAR 1829 in Garrard Co, KY. Death: 6 DEC 1851 in Caldwell Co, MO


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. James Wiley Thompson: Birth: 5 JUN 1832 in Clay Co, MO. Death: 12 MAR 1899 in Polo, Caldwell Co, MO


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Joseph Andrew Thompson: Birth: 24 OCT 1833 in Liberty, Clay Co MO. Death: 16 OCT 1854 in Caldwell Co MO

  2. Howard Milton Thompson: Birth: 24 OCT 1837 in Liberty, Clay Co, MO. Death: 25 FEB 1920 in Osborn, De Kalb Co, MO

  3. Henry Clay Thompson: Birth: 27 APR 1846 in Caldwell Co, MO. Death: 26 FEB 1934 in Liberty, Daviess Co, MO


Notes
a. Note:   1832 Marriage record (his 3rd): https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V28H-X52
  William's grandson; Albert states in a letter that William's middle initial is H. Deed Book K, pp 126, Garrard county KY- January 30, 1829, between David & William (his son) Thompson, which indicates the purchase of two tracts of land from Thomas Forsythe on the waters of Harmon Lick Creek with a boundary of Drakes Creek, and that David Thompson had sold his interest to William Thompson. containing 131 acres "more or less". William bought Clay county MO land; on Mar-8-1834, 40 acres were purchased in section 11 of range 31. He also bought 80 acres just north- section 2, recorded on the same date. William later bought land in Caldwell county, a deed dated Feb-9-1839 for 20 acres. Buried in Crab Orchard Cemetery, named for his birthplace in Kentucky. Crab Orchard Baptist Church was on part of the cemetery grounds, until it fell in disrepair in the 1960's.
  Cemetery: Orab Orchard: Located 3 miles east on Highway 6 from Gallatin, 2 miles north on Route K and 3/4 miles east, Gravestone photo there: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15017283
  According to Ralph Sheely who heard this story from his father-in-law, John Leonard Thompson (grandson of James Wiley Thompson) William Thompson and his family may have moved from Caldwell County to Gallatin, Daviess County, Missouri because William's son Clay shot a neighbor. The story goes that someone was tampering with one of the buildings on William Thompson�s farm, and Clay Thompson decided to put a stop to it. He shot the interloper, who turned out to be a neighbor. It is not known if the person was killed. After the shooting, the family of the victim had a vendetta on Clay, and that may have prompted the Thompsons to move around 1860. By this time (1860), William Thompson owned two hundred acres of land in Caldwell County, which was in a different location than his original farm of twenty acres. He sold this two hundred acres to his son David on August 9, 1860.
  1850 Caldwell county, MO Census: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MDZQ-5GG Household Gender Age Birthplace William Thompson M 50 Kentucky Jane Thompson F 38 Kentucky William Thompson M 21 Kentucky James Thompson M 18 Missouri Joseph Thompson M 17 Missouri Howard Thompson M 13 Missouri Clay Thompson M 4 Missouri Elizabeth Kinkaid F 17 Missouri (adopted)
  1860 Rockford Twp, Caldwell county, MO Census: Household Gender Age Birthplace Birth Year (Estimated) W Thompson M 60 Kentucky 1800 Jane F 48 Kentucky 1812 H C Thompson (Howard Clay) 15 Missouri 1845 E Kincaid 1832 (Elizabeth) 28 Missouri -adopted 1832


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