Thompson Cemetery, Nacogdoches Co. TX

Submitted by Billie & Dick Wingate  billie_wingate@yahoo.com   

Transcribed by Billie and Dick Wingate, August 2001.
Electronic transcription by Debbie (Parker) Wayne, August 16, 2001.

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Thompson Cemetery is located between Swift and Melrose off of 
County Road 330 in Nacogdoches County, Texas.  

It is on private property.  There is a bridge 
across a creek that is rotted out;  it has an iron frame work
but the wood has to be replaced to get into the cemetery.  It has no 
fence around it and no one has been to it in many years.  Some
stones are still standing but a grass fire got out 15 or 20 years
ago and the wooden markers were destroyed.  It is located in the
south east corner of a 400 acre strip the present owner has for
sale (August 2001).  Fifty years ago it could have been reached by
a road out of Melrose;  taking the Jamesville Road to Cisro 
Kendrick's farm turn left and go to the Muckleroy farm, come
through the woods to the Walker place at Mt. Gillian.  The dirt road
dead ends into the road from Swift to Jamesville, Mountain and
Black Jack.  The information below came from the Thompson family
genealogy.  Jane Hamil was a sister of Billie Wingate's Great-grandmother
Margaret Hamil Bentley.  They are also ancestors of Senator Roy Blake,
Colonel Lynn T. Blake, Bennett Blake and many of the Thompsons
and Muckleroys of Nacogdoches.  Contact Billie Wingate
bwingate@txucom.net if you wish to be part of a group trying
to clean up this cemetery and get CSA markers for the veterans
interred here.




Name                      Born          Died
  Additional information about the person above

David Thompson / Tomason  1796          1877  
  Born in Virginia, was a farmer and a chair maker, 
  died in Melrose, Nac. Co., TX, 
  Spouse of Jane Hamil Thompson
Jane Hamil Thompson       Jan 5, 1809   Oct 3, 1899  
  Born in Tennessee, 
  daughter of Andrew Hamil, Haywood Co., Tennessee
Jacob H. L. Thompson      1826         after 1862  
  Born in Tennessee, died in Melrose, Nac. Co., TX
  Spouse of Mary D. McKnight, 
  Confederate Veteran 1862-1865, Texas Cavalry Co. A and B
Mary D. McKnight Thompson about 1835     ----        
  Child of Louisa Woodworth and James McKnight, 
  Not on census or tax list after 1860 and 1862, 
  Spouse of Jacob H. L. Thompson
Martha F. Thompson Goen   Dec 30, 1829  Mar 17, 1910 
  Died in Melrose, Nac. Co., TX,
  Child of David and Jane Hamil Thompson,
  Spouse of Jackson Goen
Jackson Goen              Mar 15, 1811  Sep 19, 1887
  Born in SC, died in Melrose, Nac. Co., TX
  Confederate veteran 1862-1863,
  Spouse of Martha F. Thompson
Robert Jackson Thompson   Jun 1, 1831   Nov 5, 1898
  Born in Tennessee, died in Melrose, Nac. Co., TX
  Child of David and Jane Hamil Thompson,
  Spouse of Mary E. A. Lusk
Mary E. A. Lusk Thompson  Jun 17, 1838  Apr 14, 1919
  Spouse of Robert Jackson Thompson