Robert Fulton Thompson and Sarah Jane Kunkle

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Husband Robert Fulton Thompson ¹

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           Born: 6 Feb 1832 - Sewickley Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: Isaac Thompson (Abt 1808-1864) 1
         Mother: Hannah Lewis (1796-1868) 1

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       Marriage: 1856 1

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Wife Sarah Jane Kunkle ¹

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         Father: John L. Kunkle (      -      ) 1
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Children

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1 M John L. Thompson ¹

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         Spouse: Malzena Shrum (      -      ) 1

         Spouse: Mary Altman (      -      ) 1

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2 F Sarah S. Thompson ¹

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         Spouse: William Seanor (      -      ) 1

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3 M George P. Thompson ^{1 2 3}

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         Spouse: Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Earhart (1867-      ) 1 2 3
           Marr: 27 Dec 1883 3

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4 F Catharine K. Thompson ¹

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         Spouse: John Lentner (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Fulton Thompson

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He was sent to the country schools until twelve years of age, when he was hired to a farmer at one dollar per month except in harvest, when he received two. In 1849, at the age of seventeen, he undertook to learn the carpenter trade, at which he continued for twenty-five years, working in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, all the time except two and one-half years that he was in Allegheny County. He was at the site of Irwin when there was nothing on the ground but a saw-mill. At the end of his career as a mechanic he began speculating in real estate, buying farms, improving and selling them, in which he was very successful. In 1879 he bought the farm on which the village of Jeannette was built, selling it in 1887 to a Mr. Brickell for Chambers & McKee. In 1887 he purchased from Jacob Gongaware his a farm of 126 acres of choice, well-improved land, lying two miles east of Irwin on the pike.
In 1864 he enlisted in Co. E, 206th reg., Pa. Vols., and served till the close of the war, participating in all the important engagements of his regiment and remaining from April 24 till May 24 in the city of Richmond.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 414.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1008.

3 The Lauffer History. A Genealogical Chart of the Descendents of Christian Lauffer, the Pioneer. (Jeannette, PA: Press of the Westmoreland Journal, 1906), Pg 34.