Fayette County PA Archives Bibles ..... THOMPSON Bibles: Selected entries from the Journals of Josiah V Thompson ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lynn Beatty ************************************************ V3 Page 234 the Bibles of my grandfather Andrew Finley Thompson & my father Jasper Markle Thompson. . I take it that the births of the three children was written by grandfather, as father being raised at Mill Grove among the Markles in early live [sic] wrote his name G.M. Thompson as they all called him "Gasper" & he has told me he did not know but that was his correct name "until he got his father's family Bible & found he had written his name Jasper". Hence, I take it that the births of his children are written in grandfather's own hand & the record of the deaths of grandmother, grandfather, & Uncle William L, are written by Father. Also in Father's own Bible, the record of his & mother's marriage & the births of us four children are all in Father's V3 Page 235 handwriting. . Grandfather's Bible is well & substantially bound in leather & is eleven by nine inches & three inches thick & was printed in Philadelphia by M. Carey & Son No 126 Chestnut St in 1821. On the inside of the front cover is pasted a clipping from a newspaper from top to bottom 11 inches long announcing the death of Alvira S. Fuller, (father's first cousin) wife of Dr. Smith Fuller from Pulmonary consumption on May 25, 1848 in her 28th year. The family record is as follows: Mary Thompson was born March 24, AD 1819. William L. Thompson was born October 13 AD 1820. Jasper M. Thompson was born August 30, AD 1822. Leah Thompson, wife of Andrew F. Thompson departed this life 22d September, 1824. Andrew F. Thompson departed this life 20th of April, 1825. William L. Thompson, eldest son of Andrew & Leah Thompson, departed this life (in Owensville, Clay County, Mosouria [sic]) on 20th August 1841 (of congestive Feaver) [sic] Father's family Bible is also well & substantially bound in leather is nine & a half inches long by six & a half inches wide & two & three quarter inches thick. It was printed at Hartford by S. Andrus & Son 1853 & he has written his name "J.M. Thompson" May 13, 1856 & evidently, the record has been written in, as in grandfather's after the children were all born. The family record is as follows: Marriages J.M. Thompson to Eliza Carothers, February 1846 Births Ruthana Thompson, Born May 16th, 1847. Lenora M. Thompson, Born May 28th, 1849. William M. Thompson, Born November 13th, 1851. Josiah V. Thompson, Born February 15, 1854. Deaths Jasper M. Thompson, Died March 15th, 1889. Eliza Thompson, Died October 31st, 1897. ---------- Jasper M. THOMPSON Self M Male W 55 KY President Of 1st N. Bank Unionton KY KY Eliza THOMPSON Wife M Female W 57 PA Keeping House PA PA William M. THOMPSON Son S Male W 28 PA Farmer KY PA John NICCOLLS SonL M Male W 33 PA Dry Good Merchant PA PA Lenora NICCOLLS Wife M Female W 31 PA Keeping House PA PA Lida NICCOLLS Dau S Female W 5 PA PA PA Elizabeth FORD Other S Female W 16 PA Servant PA PA 1880 Census Place Menallen, Fayette, Pennsylvania Josiah V. THOMPSON Self M Male W 26 PA Bank Cashier KY PA Mary A. THOMPSON Wife M Female W 32 OH Keeping House PA PA Minnie L. REDBURN Cousin S Female W 21 PA Music Teacher PA PA Priscilla A. SEESE Other S Female W 27 PA Domestic Servant --- --- 1880: Census Place West Ward, Uniontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania