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James THOMPSON
b. 5 Oct 1849 in Taylor
Co., KY, the son of William
and Nancy Jane (THOMPSON) THOMPSON
m. 25 Sep 1872 in Taylor
Co.
d. 5 May 1924 in Taylor
Co.; bur. in Zion Cemetery, Zion Separate Baptist Church, Maple, KY
Rachel Ellen BELL
b. 12 Mar 1850 in Taylor
Co., the daughter of John
and Lucy (OAKS) BELL
d. 31 Dec 1926 in Taylor
Co.; bur. in Zion Cemetery
James Thompson was known as 'Big Jim'; Rachel went by her middle name, Ellen.
In his book The Crooked
Sourwood, Ben Jones talks about Jim Thompson:
Now another Thompson clan in the many was one who stood out as an individual. It was Big Jim who was born in Taylor County in 1849 and died in 1924. He was buried in the Mt. Zion Cemetery. My dad, William Butler Jones, said Big Jim was an outstanding man but I never heard him say what Big Jim's specialty was. I am sure it was not a brawler or alcoholic because he had no time for drunks or brawlers. It could have been horses or a log roller. A lot of people don't know what a log roller was. At a new ground they didn't roll the logs together they sawed them into lengths and carried them and piled them up. They put poles under logs, a man on each end, and from six to eight men to the log. This was where they separated the men from the boys. There were tricks to all trades and many a boy who thought he was a log roller got a back injury for life. I knew some of them. My dad knew Jim Frank for our family and Jim (Coon) Skaggs were visiting friends.Children of James and Ellen Thompson:
From Zion Cemetery, Zion
Separate Baptist Church, Maple:
James
Thompson's gravestone
Ellen
Thompson's gravestone
Five-Generation Pedigree
Chart
Offspring | This Family | Parents | Grandparents | Great-grandparents |
Frank Thompson | James Thompson | William Thompson | ||
Nancy Jane Thompson | Warren Thompson | Drury Thompson | ||
Lucy Thompson | ||||
Polly Edwards | John Edwards | |||
Ellen Bell | John Bell | George Bell | James Bell | |
Francis Beasley | ||||
Rachel Goudy | ||||
Lucy Oaks | John Oaks | Daniel Oaks | ||
Jennett --?-- | ||||
Barby Romans | Jacob Romans | |||
References
To be added - check back
in a bit.
Genealogy of Stephen R.
Moore - Family Page of James Thompson and Ellen Bell
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