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THOMPSON, D. A., postmaster at Hawleyville; born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, October 13, 1819, where he resided until 1844, when he moved to Clinton county, Ohio. In 1856 he came to Page county. The major part of Mr. Thompson’s life has been passed as a farmer. For the last twelve years he has been justice of the peace and notary public. He enlisted August 9, 1862, in company F, twenty-ninth Infantry and served until the close of the war. He was engaged in the battles of Columbia, Little Rock, Helena, Okalona, and Saline River; was transferred to the third Arkansas cavalry with the rank of first lieutenant. Mr. Thompson had charge of the commissary until the close of the war. He was married January 26, 1842, to Miss C. B. Thompson, of Pennsylvania, by whom he had six children, two living, Emma R. and Abraham A.