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From: "Mike & Kathy Bowlin" <>
Subject: Re: [MOHOWARD-L] THOMPSON questions-again
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 15:12:16 -0500
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Okay, let's deepen the mystery a little more.

Personally, I'm not convinced that Uriah Thompson and Milton aren't the same child. I haven't found anything on the either the 1840
or 1850 census records to support the child named Milton, nor have I been able to find a marriage record to Mary Hoyt or to finding
this man anywhere in any census records at all! Does anybody have any proof, or even slight evidence of Milton's existance?

Kathy Bowlin



----- Original Message -----
From: "Elizabeth DuBois Russo" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [MOHOWARD-L] THOMPSON questions-again


> Cecil, I am always so appreciative when people try to help. I love
> researching in Howard and Randolph counties for that very reason.
>
> When looking at the digital image for the census at:
>
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mo/howard/census/1880/092-31.gif
>
> I see WILLIAM GRAPES and family above the MARY F. THOMPSON in question, and
> the JOHN THOMPSON family "below" her. In the 1870 census, the THOMAS
> GRIFFIN family is listed between JOHN THOMPSON and MARY O. THOMPSON. I
> don't know which theory might explain this: 1. the Griffin family moved;
> 2. the census taker took a slightly different route; or 3. Mary O.
> Thompson's place was sold off to a non-family member while another Thompson
> bought the Griffin place.
>
> I believe we'll need to look at the land records and probate records to get
> a fuller explanation. [DARN that missing 1890 census!!]
>
> Carolyn and Kathy, I am not particularly concerned that the MARY F. is
> listed as being born in Virginia. I do not automatically conclude she is
> not related by marriage.
>
> [I would note that I have 4 census records for my gggrandfather JOHN FARRIS
> and his son where John is shown as being born in four different states over
> the years.]
>
> I am more impressed with the following information:
>
> 1. A Mary Thompson (age 59) is right next door to John in 1880.
> 2. John's brothers Milton, James, and Willoughby all could have had
> children conceived between 1861 and the end of 1865 when these children were
> possibly conceived. Until we look into their estates or until another
> researcher on those lines comes forward with definitive children, I consider
> them all as candidates as father for the children listed with Mary F.
> 3. Milton's wife is said to be Mary Hoyt. I don't have her place of birth.
> I don't have wives names, much less places of birth for James or Willoughby.
> Possibly one of these three wives moved into Mary O's place. Because of the
> age of Mary F.(59), however, perhaps she is a cousin's wife rather than a
> sibling's wife. Although men have been known to marry older, widowed or
> not, women...
>
> Yes, Mary Thompson is a common name, but a widowed woman with three teenaged
> boys moving right next door in the little burgh of Bonne Femme? What are
> the chances??
>
> I'll go with the related somehow by marriage theory for now... (Oh, I DO
> love a good mystery!)
>
> Elizabeth
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cecil V. Boyd" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 1:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [MOHOWARD-L] THOMPSON questions-again
>
>
> > Elizabeth,
> > I just checked the actual census. The person that transcribed
> > this one for the index was not very good. The ones just above Mary F.
> > Thompson, alias Humpea, is shown as Geaps, but I am sure that should be
> > Grapes.
> > Oh well, I tried. I'm sorry I couldn't help.
> > Cecil V. Boyd
>
>

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