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About Charles Cope Thompson, Sr.
Edward and Ellen (Foos) Thompson, parents of our subject, were natives of Virginia and came to the Buckeye State with their parents when quite young, settling in Clark County. The first years of their married life were spent in that section, whence they removed here about 1825, locating in Salt Rock Township. With the exception of one son, Robert, their nine children are all living and are as follows:
Jane,
William,
Isabella,
Thomas,
Sarah,
Edward,
Anna and
Charles.
Bibliographic information:
- Portrait and biographical record of Marion and Hardin counties, Ohio
- by Chapman publishing co., Chicago, pub
- Publication date 1895
- Topics Presidents
- Publisher Chicago : Chapman Publishing Co.
- Collection allen_county; americana
- Digitizing sponsor Internet Archive
- Contributor Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
- Language English
- Photo copied book. Irregular pagination. No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found.
- Page 128
- https://archive.org/details/portraitbiograph00chap_7/page/n4
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ORREN MESSENGER is the oldest male resident of Big Island Township, having been born May 29, 1822. at Marietta, Ohio, whose parents, Reuben and Hannah Messenger, came from Connecticut in 1818, and to Big Island Township in 1821, locating the following year where Orren now lives. His primitive home was surrounded for years by fierce wild cats, wolves, deer, and Indians. Orren's grandfather, Payne, was a Revolutionary soldier. His father was Magistrate for thirty consecutive years.
Mr. M. married, in 1816, Miss Nancy Prettyman, daughter of James and Sarah Prettyman. She died two years later, leaving one child — Matilda, wife of Charles Thompson.
In 1850, he married again, Miss Sarah Wolff, daughter of Henry and Susan Wolff.
Their children number eight; they are
Henry,
Wayne,
Susan (wife of Thomas Smith),
Van,
Jane,
Elsworth (dead),
Albert and
Almon (twins).
Mr. M. began buying out the old homestead in 1849. He owns at present 180 acres, worth $70 per acre. He is making a specialty of wheat this year (1883), having sixty-five acres. Mr. M. has done many a heavy day's work; for example, in 1850, he cradled five acres of oats in a single day; another day he cut three acres of timothy. He was never excelled in mowing, outstripping the noted " Tommy Smith." He never found the man who could keep up raking and binding after him. He has split 300 rails in one day, and sheared eighty sheep in the same length of time, and fifty sheep upon the average His mother died in 1870, aged ninety-four years.
Bibliographic information:
- The history of Marion County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, towns, churches, schools, etc; general and local statistics; military record; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; history of the Northwest Territory; history of Ohio
- by Leggett, Conaway & Co., Chicago, pub
- Publication date 1883
- Publisher Chicago, Leggett, Conaway
- Collection library_of_congress; americana
- Digitizing sponsor Sloan Foundation
- Contributor The Library of Congress
- Language English
- Call number 9127408
- Camera Canon 5D
- Identifier historyofmarionc00legg
- Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4cn7dg4p
- Identifier-bib 0005407539a
- Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0
- Openlibrary_edition OL271494M
- Openlibrary_work OL16753810W
- Pages 1054
- Possible copyright status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
- https://archive.org/details/historyofmarionc00legg/page/664
- Page 664
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Charles Cope Thompson, Sr.'s Timeline
| 1840 |
November 2, 1840
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Marion, Marion County, Ohio, United States
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| 1866 |
July 24, 1866
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Marion, Marion County, Ohio, United States
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| 1868 |
March 4, 1868
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Marion County, Ohio, United States
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| 1870 |
August 17, 1870
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Bronson, Bourbon County, Kansas, United States
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| 1872 |
July 28, 1872
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Kansas, United States
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| 1874 |
July 27, 1874
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Allen County, Kansas, United States
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| 1876 |
August 14, 1876
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Allen County, Kansas, United States
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| 1879 |
February 5, 1879
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Allen County, Kansas, United States
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| 1882 |
May 3, 1882
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Mildred, Allen County, Kansas, United States
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