Bio: Virgil V. Thompson, Claiborne Parish, LA
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Jan. 2000


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Virgil V. Thompson.  The social, political and business history of this section 
is filled with the deeds and doings of self-made men, and no man in Claiborne 
Parish is more deserving the appellation than Mr. Thompson, for he marked out 
his own career in youth and has steadily followed it up to the present, his 
prosperity being attributable to his earnest and persistent endeavor, and to 
the fact that he has always consistently tried to follow the teaching of the 
Golden Rule.  Although now a resident of Ward 1 of this parish he was born in 
Georgia in 1822, being one of the following family of children: Sebron J., 
Thomas B., H. Judge, John C., Jasper, Virgil V., William H., Laft, Robert E., 
Louise, Martha, Mary A. And Margaret J.  The parents of these children, Charles 
and Margaret (Clark) Thompson, were born in South Carolina and North Carolina, 
respectively, the former's birth occurring on June 30, 1774, the latter being a 
daughter of William Clark.  Virgil V. Thompson grew to manhood and was married 
in his native State to Miss Talitha C. Smith, by whom he became the father of 
three children that grew to maturity: Virgil (now a resident of this parish), 
William V. And Alice A. (the last two being still single and living at home).  
Mr. Thompson came to Claiborne Parish, La., in the spring of 1847, and immediately 
located on his present property.  Prior to the war he owned but a few slaves and 
farmed on a limited scale, although he was financially in good circumstances.  At 
that time he was an old-line Whig, but since the war he has been identified with 
the Democratic party.  While he is not a very active politician, he never fails to 
cast his vote.  Socially hi is a member of the A. F. & A. M., and in his religious 
views is a Methodist, joining about 1836, his wife, who died February 10, 1878, also 
joining at that time, and ever afterward living an earnest Christian life.

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