This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: pattoncarter Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/19280.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I think you meant that AHS was your great great grandfather, right? I knew your grandmother Rosa Lee and all of her sisters and brothers...even worked with Lonnie surveying once. I saw Loie just a few years ago before she passed away. These were all my mom's first cousins. We even had a Thompson Reunion for a long time where many of Aunt Kitty and Maw Maw Belle's kids and grandkids came (Kitty and Belle were sisters, daughters of AHS and Mary Virginia). AHS's dad was John Davis Thompson. He had a brother named James Henry Thompson, who was a preacher. They were both born before 1810 in northeastern Kentucky. I think the whole family moved to Indiana at some point, but the two brothers, at least, came to Mississippi in the first half of the 1840's. I can't remember if they brought wives and any family with them or that all happened here. AHS was born in 1845 in Mississippi, so whatever happened was before then. AHS did fight in the Civil War and my Aunt Dorothy said a few years ago she remembers seeing his uniform. I've always wondered how John D. Thompson, being from KY and IN met Susan Howe, from Massachusetts. BTW, Rev. James H. Thompson is buried in Leaf, Cemetery, near Mclain, MS, near his brother's parents-in-law, A.K. Fairley and Sarah Breland Fairley. I've seen James's grave many times, but I don't know where John D. is buried....probably there...but unmarked. I've also been to AHS's grave many times. He's buried in the Hintonville Cemetery, in Perry Co. Do you know any of the history of the Thompsons going back to PA and Ireland and Scotland? I guess we would be considered second cousins once removed...me actually being second cousins with your parent. This is my lineage: Pat Carter < Evelyn Hinton < Isabelle Thompson < AHS Thompson < John D. Thompson Pat Carter pattoncarter@aol.com Hattiesburg, MS Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.