This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Thompson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SFB.2ACI/582.635.815 Message Board Post: Greetings Polly; The only information I have on my Thompson family was from the 1880 Ohio Census LDS they lived in the; 3rd Ward, Bellefontaine, Logan, Lake TWP. Ohio. J. S. THOMPSON Self M Male W 40 MD Farmer MD MD Salley THOMPSON Wife M Female W 39 VA Keeping House VA VA Thomas J. THOMPSON Son S Male W 12 VA At School MD VA Minnie S. THOMPSON Dau S Female W 7 VA At School MD Thomas J. Thompson was my G-grandfather he died 1936 in Cincinnati. He arrived there about 1895. This is the farthest I've gotten back on his line. I believe his fathers first name was Joseph. . Thanks for any and all information in advance. Tom Thompson