My Genealogy Hound

WILLIAM THOMPSON, farmer, post office Bennett, was born Jan. 17, 1817, on the old homestead. His father, John Thompson, a native of Ireland, came to America at the age of thirty, with his brother James. He married Ellen Davis, who was of Welsh descent, and to them were born sixteen children, of whom fourteen attained maturity, viz.: Nancy, James, Elizabeth, Thomas, Mary, John, William, Davis, Robert, Isabella, Samuel, Sarah, Ellen, Benjamin. John Thompson enlisted to go to the war of 1812, but was not accepted on account of his age. He bought land in Ross township, now Shaler, upon which his children are living. He was an earnest and active member of the Presbyterian Church, and died on the homestead, at the age of eighty-five years. Politically he was a democrat. Our subject, William Thompson, married Mary, daughter of Archie Hazlet. She died Aug. 7, 1881, the mother of six children: Mrs. Isabella Haney, Rebecca J., Elizabeth, Emma, William and John. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are members of the Presbyterian Church, of which he has been an elder for forty years. Politically he is a democrat.