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

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

THOMPSON   BAIRD   McCORD   

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

Knox County, Washington Twp., page 442

SAMUEL THOMPSON is a son of Samuel and Mary (Baird) Thompson, mention of whom
is made in the sketch of Bradway Thompson.  He was born in 1809 in Washington
Township.  He secured the best education the times afforded, and studied some
of the higher branches, such as surveying and chemistry.  Until twenty-three
years of age he lived with his parents.  He was married, in 1832, to Opah
Ann McCord, born in Kentucky in 1812.  They settled on their woodland farm,
fifty acres of which the father cleared.  He endured many hardships and
privations in order to make a comfortable home for his family.  To them
were born these children:  Tirza J., Hannah B., William H., Mary E., Louisa,
Dorcas A., Henry M., Margaret, Samuel and Isador.  William, after attending
the Nashville Medical College and practicing about four years, died;  Tirza,
Hannah, Louisa and Dorcas have been teachers.  Henry M. enlisted in the late
war in Company H, Fifty-first Indiana Infantry, and after eighteen months'
service sickened and died at Murfreesboro, Tenn.  The family are members of
the Presbyterian Church.  In 1872 the wife died, and since that time Mr.
Thompson has resided with his son Samuel, who owns the home farm.  He is a
Republican and has filled several offices, such as township trustee, assessor
and magistrate.  He cast his first presidential vote for Jackson.
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