BIO:  THOMPSON, Bradway, s/o Samuel and Mary (Baird) Thompson

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

THOMPSON   BAIRD   ROBERTS   RICHEY   

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co.  1886

Knox County, Washington Twp., page 442

BRADWAY THOMPSON is a son of Samuel and Mary (Baird) Thompson, who were born
in New Jersey and Kentucky in 1766 and 1778, respectively.  They were married
in the "Bluegrass State", and came to Indiana in 1802.  The father was a
brick-maker, and made the brick for the house in Vincennes known as the
Harrison House.  He contracted with Gov. Harrison for 400 acres of land, 
paying for it with 200,000 brick.  In 1804 he located on his farm, and 
cleared about 100 acres.  In their family were eleven children.  The mother
died in 1820, and the father married Laura Roberts, by whom he had one child.
He died in 1849.  Bradway was born in 1813, in Washington Township.  He was
educated in the old log schoolhouse, and when his father became too old to
work, he and his brother farmed the home place jointly, until 1839, when
Bradway married Eliza J. Richey, born in Palmyra Township in 1822.  They
then settled on the home farm, and cared for his father during the rest of
his life.  He received 100 acres of land from his father, and purchased out
the heirs for another hundred.  He now owns 229 acres of land, 160 acres 
being under cultivation.  Mr. and Mrs. Thompson became the parents of fifteen
children:  Thomas B., Cynthia A., William, Charles K., David R., Samuel,
Mary E., William R., Eliza J., Nathaniel B., John L., Arthur H., James W.,
Edwin V. and Henry C.  Charles, David and Cynthia have taught school for
some time.  Thomas and David were in the army.  Thomas served three years
in Company G, Fourteenth Indiana Infantry, and was wounded at Antietam.  He
then joined a company of Kentucky cavalry, and served until the close of the
war.  David served eighteen months in Company A, One Hundred and Eighteenth
Indiana Volunteer Infantry.  Parents and nine children are members of the
Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Thompson has been elder about twenty years.
He is a Republican, and was magistrate four years.
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