Husband Jasper Markle Thompson 1 2
AKA: Gasper Thompson 3
Born: 20 Aug or 30 Aug 1822 - near Washington, Mason Co, KY 1 4
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Died: - Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA
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Father: Andrew Finley Thompson (1791- ) 1 3 4
Mother: Leah Markle ( - ) 1 3 5
Marriage: 1846 6
Wife Eliza Carothers 2 6
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Father: Samuel Carothers (1789- ) 7 8 9
Mother: Ruth Elliott ( - ) 2 8
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1 F Ruth A. Thompson 11
AKA: Ruth E. Thompson 10
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Spouse: Dr. Joseph Taylor Shepler (1847- ) 10 12 13
Marr: 18 Nov 1875 14
2 F Lenora M. Thompson 6
AKA: Leona M. Thompson 10
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Spouse: John A. Niccolls ( - ) 6 10
Marr: 1873 6
3 M William M. Thompson 6 10
Born: - Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA
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4 M Josiah V. Thompson 6 10
Born: Abt 1855 - Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA
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General Notes: Husband - Jasper Markle Thompson
His father and mother both dying before he was three years old, he was taken to Mill Grove, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and lived several years with his grand-mother, Mary (Rothermel) Markle. After her death, in 1832, he lived with his cousin, Gen. Cyrus P. Markle, for eighteen years. While with Gen. Markle he worked on the farm, at the paper-mill, in the store, sold goods, kept books, etc., till April, 1850, when he moved to Redstone township, Fayette County, and purchased part of "the Walters farm," two miles from New Salem, and lived there until September of the same year. He then removed to another farm, two miles and a half from Uniontown, in Menallen township, and farmed and dealt in live-stock until 1862, when he was appointed collector of internal revenue for the Twenty-first District of Pennsylvania, the largest district in the State except those of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. He was afterwards appointed receiver of commutation money for the same district, and in this capacity collected and paid over to the government over 50,000, in addition to some $2,000,000 collected as internal revenue, having collected over $100,000 tax on whisky in one day. He held two commissions as collector from President Lincoln, and resigned his post under the latter one after holding it for over four years.
He was one of the original stockholders (1863) of the First National Bank of Uniontown, of which he was later president, and was a director beginning from the organization of that institution. He was nominated as the Republican candidate for representative to the Legislature in 1873, but hesitated to accept the nomination, as it was generally thought there was no chance of electing a Republican candidate in a county which usually gives one thousand Democratic majority, but finally consenting, was elected by one thousand and thirty-one majority, his opponent on the Democratic ticket being Col. Alexander J. Hill. He was one of the first directors of the Uniontown and West Virginia Railroad Company, and after the resignation of G. A. Thomson was elected president. He was also president of the Uniontown Building and Loan Association beginning from its organization; also was one of the originators of the Fayette County Agricultural Association, and was president thereof from its organization. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Uniontown for over thirty years, a ruling elder for about twenty years; was commissioner from Redstone Presbytery to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church which met in Albany, New York, in 1868, and again at Madison, Wisconsin, in 1880, and was a director in the Western Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church at Allegheny City, Pennsylvania.