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Author: lindalaffey
Surnames: Thompson, Tougas, Rogers, Westfall, Norris, Bogard, Aikman
Classification: queries
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My recent research trip was a success thanks to the super women at the library who got me
on the path! When I got to the courthouse on the other hand, the officials were
ineffective. Luckily there was a charming researcher from the area who along with his
friend helped with the will boxes and the 12 foot LADDER! And also with lots of
information about my THOMPSON family. (My experiences in Mt. Carmel, IL; Princeton, IN;
and Vincennes, IN, were also super!) Good librarians; good courthouse officials.
My Andrew Thompson, b 1816 prob.Daviess Co, is the son of Ephraim and Margaret Thompson
who came west from Cecil County, Maryland, with the Aikman family. He bought and sold lots
of land in the county. Ephraim became a first county commissioner in 1817 and a judge etc.
One of his son's John Thompson was evidently helpful at hiding runaway slaves in the
underground railroad along with Peter Stephenson. There were numerous Thompson siblings,
John and Andrew were two. John's son Ephraim Thompson, b 1834, married Eliza Bruner
and along with his brother Joseph E. Thompson became a merchant in the City. Younger
Ephraim also went west for the CA gold rush before he married and settled down, and his
letters home to his family in Daviess Co have been published in historical journals.
Elizabeth Thompson married Isaac Rogers, Rebecca T. married William Norris, Sarah T.
married William C. Westfall, Daniel D. Thompson married Elizabeth Bogard (don't know
if all are siblings.) If anyone knows about these families or the Thompsons in Daviess
now, I would really like to collaborate!
My Andrew married a girl of French descent (Tougas) in Wabash Co, IL in 1850. He was a
gov't contractor: a surveyor and probably died in Minnesota in 1870. There is a
family story about him having been a POW in TX (Tyler, Camp Ford?) as a northern spy after
he took a shipload of logs to New Orleans. No facts yet.
My email is linda(a)laffeygroup.com. And I'm having fun now.
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