Gen. John Thompson and Mary Elizabeth McFarlane

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Husband Gen. John Thompson ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 16 Feb 1783 - Mifflin Co, PA 4
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           Died: 5 Mar 1832 4
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         Father: Moses Thompson (      -      ) 1
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 15 Nov 1804 2

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Wife Mary Elizabeth McFarlane ^{1 2 5}

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           Born: 16 May 1783 2 6
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           Died: 10 May 1822 2
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         Father: Col. James McFarlane (1754-1830) 3 7
         Mother: Mary Loudon (1761-1838) 7 8

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Children

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1 M Matthew Loudon Thompson ⁹

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           Born: 18 Oct 1805 - Mifflin Co, PA 9
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         Spouse: Maria Speer (      -      ) 9

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2 F Nancy Culbertson Thompson ⁹

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           Born: 11 Jan 1808 - Mifflin Co, PA 9
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           Died: 1890 9
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         Spouse: William Cooper (      -      ) 9

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3 M Moses Thompson ^{3 9 10}

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           Born: 25 Mar 1810 - Centre Co, PA 3 9
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           Died: 19 Jun 1891 9 11
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         Spouse: Mary Irvin (      -1890) 3 10
           Marr: 4 Jan 1838 9

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4 F Mary Thompson ⁹

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           Born: 18 Jun 1812 - Centre Co, PA 9
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         Spouse: George Jack, Esq. (Abt 1803-Aft 1883) 9 12

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5 M James M. Thompson ⁹

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           Born: 11 Mar 1815 9
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6 M John Thompson ^{9 13}

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           Born: 28 Mar 1818 9
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         Spouse: Mary Kyle (      -      ) 9 13

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7 M William Thompson ⁹

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           Born: 23 Dec 1821 9
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         Spouse: Priscilla Tayler (      -      ) 9

         Spouse: Mrs. Eliza Everitt (      -      ) 9

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General Notes: Husband - Gen. John Thompson

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The Thompson family is of Scotch-Irish stock, and his grandfather was the original emigrant who crossed the ocean about 1745.

He was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, his grandfather having come from the north of Ireland, Armagh, about the year 1745, and settled in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, which was then an almost unbroken wilderness.

He was born in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, about one mile to the northeast of where Milroy was later located. As schools were scarce at that time he received a very limited education, having been to school only three months in his life. At the age of twenty-one he was married. His father having just finished the construction of a stone house, long standing at the western end of Milroy, and known for a long time afterwards as "Thompson's Tavern," he removed into it, leaving the old homestead to be occupied by his son John, and it was in this house that two of his children, Matthew and Nancy, were born. In 1809, with his wife and two little ones, he removed to a farm in Centre County near the old Presbyterian Church on Slab Cabin Branch, which was later owned by E. C. Humes, Esq. In an old log house on this farm he lived for about five years, during which time two more children, Moses and Mary, were born. In the years 1813 and 1814 he built a large substantial stone house on his farm, by the side of the highway from Bellefonte to Huntingdon, and occupied it from 1814 until his death. In this house three more sons, James, John, and William, were born.
In 1811 he was appointed justice of the peace by Governor Simon Snyder, and served in this capacity until his death.
In 1829 he was elected major-general of militia. Important business calling him to Bellefonte he contracted a severe cold, from the effects of which he died.
He was a public-spirited, enterprising man, and soon after settling on Slab Cabin Branch he began to urge his neighbors to assist in building a schoolhouse, after accomplishing which he was instrumental in securing as teacher, or "master," as it was then called, a young man named Ezekiel Dunbar, a graduate of Dickinson College. This school-house stood near the old Branch Church.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Elizabeth McFarlane

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from Jacks Creek, later called Honey Creek, Mifflin Co, PA

She moved from Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, in 1809, and settled on a farm in what is now College township (then Ferguson, and, later, a part of Harris township) [Centre County?].

1 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 227.

2 Leander James McCormick, McCormick Family Record and Biography (Chicago, IL: Publisher Unknown, 1896), Pg 230.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 98.

4 Leander James McCormick, McCormick Family Record and Biography (Chicago, IL: Publisher Unknown, 1896), Pg 231.

5 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 98, 509.

6 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 509.

7 Leander James McCormick, McCormick Family Record and Biography (Chicago, IL: Publisher Unknown, 1896), Pg 229.

8 Editor, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 27.

9 Leander James McCormick, McCormick Family Record and Biography (Chicago, IL: Publisher Unknown, 1896), Pg 232.

10 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 204.

11 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 99.

12 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 319.

13 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 584.