Received this from another list and a Catty COMPTON is mentioned. ---------- > From: Jemima Gee Morse <morse@shentel.net> > To: VAMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [VAMONTGO] SARAH THOMPSON, DAU. OF HENERY THOMPSON, B. 1773, AND MARY RAY > Date: Thursday, February 03, 2000 7:26 AM > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Doug Moore" <moore@asu.edu> > To: "Jemima Gee Morse" <morse@shentel.net> > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 12:43 AM > Subject: [Fwd: Ray Thompson Genealogy] > > > > Jemima, > > > > Here is another Thompson descendant who found my Rootsweb > > gedcom. I answered and told her where to find Archibald's > > diary and that I would forward the letter to you. Since she > says > > that Henery died while Sarah was young, perhaps Henery's estate > > settlement is in the early Cumberland Co records. > > > > Doug > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: Ray Thompson Genealogy > > Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 20:38:53 -0800 > > From: "Viola I. Dyer" <harvestm@toledotel.com> > > Reply-To: harvestm@toledotel.com > > To: moore@asu.edu > > > > Hello! > > Henry Thompson and Mary Ray were my 3rd Great Grandparents. I > have seen > > Henry's name spelled the way you have it, and when I sent for > their > > marriage record I found it spelled both ways. They got the > license on > > the 3rd of March 1798, but the marriage took place on the 5th > of March > > 1798. Their daughter was raised by Mary's brother, Elder Thomas > Ray, a > > Baptist Minister. Henry and Mary died when Sarah Thompson was a > very > > young child. Elder Thomas Ray moved to Madison County, Illinois > in the > > early 1800's. Sarah (Sally) Thompson married Henry Bronson > Smart in > > Madison Co.,IL and their daughter, Itha Jane Smart married > Benjamin > > Proctor Harris, also in Madison Co.,IL. The family history is > that one > > of Rebecca Hawkin's sisters is the 4th Great Grandmother. > Family knew > > that they were related to Davy Crockett, believe it came down > through > > the Thompson Line. Do you have any information on who the > parents of > > Henery/Henry Thompson were? I am most anxious to hear from > you. I would > > also like to know who Mary Ray's parents were, her Uncle Elder > Thomas > > Ray had a brother William Ray, also a Baptist minister in > Kentucky. They > > were in Cumberland Co., Kentucky when they left Kentucky for > Illinois. > > Cumberland Co., was formed from Green Co. KY. THANKS!!! > > Viola I. Dyer > > > Viola, > By now you've probably discovered you are the > gggg-granddaughter of Archibald Thompson and Mary Elswick. > Until we got your message, we didn't know what had happened to > Henery and Mary Ray and are most anxious to hear from you. You > have also given us the keys to the "Mary Ray's," but more about > that Ray line later. As you'll find in Archibald's Diary, > Henery's brother, Rodden, also married a Mary Ray; She died in > 1804 after the birth of at least two children, Jeremiah and > Rebeckey, who also wound up in IL. It may be interesting to find > out when Henery and your Mary died, as I had always wondered > whether Rodden's wife didn't die in childbirth, but maybe it was > some kind of contagious disease that killed a group of folk at > that time. Note that the last recorded birth of children for > Henery and Mary was for Lucy, 1803. > > Archibald didn't record your Sarah's birth, probably because he > was dead by then. He did, however, record the birth of four of > Henery and Mary's children, as follows: Alexander Thompson 1798; > Rachel Thompson 1800; Nancy Thompson 1801; Lucy Thompson 1803. > We don't anything about these children, so it will interesting to > see if they survived and maybe also went to Madison, IL > > Henery's brother, Ratliff who married Catty Compton, also just > kind of disappeared from the records, and I got a message from a > Compton researcher who is puzzled as to why her line records a > child, Scott Thompson, Cumberland Co., Ky., who she wonders might > not be a son or grandson of Ratliff and Catty. > > Doug compiled a list of Thompsons who got land grants in > Kentucky; > Henery's is recorded as 1807, but the process of claiming a land > grant involved several steps and it is to be determined whether > he had died before this award. Archibald also is recorded as > getting a land grant in 1807. (I'll have to check Doug's record > on this and will send later.) > > Your reference to Davy Crockett is interesting for this reason: > Your ggggg-grandmother was Lydia Unknown Elswick Lorton. Her > daughter by a second marriage to Jacob Lorton was named Rebekah > Lorton. A Rebekah Lorton married a Hugh Crockett (in DAR > records) but Tom Thompson has researched this line extensively > (as he is a descendant of Lydia through her son, Israel) and has > not linked our Rebekah to the Crocketts. But that > Lorton line is still in a mess, and Tom is trying to get it right > in the record. > > I hate to tell you this, but we still have a Sarah Thompson who > is unaccounted for: Born in 1819, she m. Jesse Wood and is the > mother of Rawdon Wood, b. 1843 (from the "Monroe County County > History 1820-1988"). Your Henery's sister, Roseanny, married an > Isham Wood, and this Rawdon may be her descendant, but no hint as > to who Sarah, his mother, might be. > I will send you everything -- well, a lot of stuff -- we have > found for the John Thompson and Mary Unknown family line. We > still haven't found when they left Ireland or where they > disembarked in America. > > Thanks, > Jemima > > > > > >