William Henry
Andrew Vinton
John Simpson (our
grandfather)
James Galleo
Robert Reddish
George
Augustus
Edmund E.
Mary Elizabeth
They lived in
Washington, D.C. where their first two children, William Henry &
Andrew Vinton, were born. They then moved with their two young
sons, to Edgar County, Illinois and settled to farm near the town of
Kansas, Illinois. Elizabeth's parents, John & Mary (Waite)
Simpson also settled in the Edgar County, Illinois area.
Our grandfather, John Simpson Thompson was her third child and was their
first child born in Illinois. Elizabeth lived just a year after she
lost Andrew Elliott. When she died, she still had the two smallest
children, Edmund E. & Mary in the home. After her death they
went to live with Uncle Henry Bull. Just a few years after their parents died, our grandfather John Simpson & older brothers William Henry, Andrew Vinton and younger brother James Galleo,left Illinois to move to the old Chickasaw Nation in Indian Territory.
Eva D. (Cobble)
Thompson
Eva
Cobble, Wife of John Simpson Thompson
Mother
of Edmund Presley Thompson
Grandmother to us all
1839-1916
Eva D. Cobble,
daughter of David & Mary Ann Cobble, married John Simpson
Thompson August 4, 1857, near Kansas, Edgar County, Illinois. She
was born November 13, 1839, in Clay County, Indiana, so she
would have been almost 18 when they married. John would have been
25. John Simpson's just younger brother James Galleo (b. January
9,1835) (namesake of Grandpa Albert Galleo's middle name) married Eva's
sister Nancy Jane Cobble the following March after Eva & John were
married.
Eva was mother of 11 children, including our grandfather
Edmund Presley Thompson. She made the trip to Indian Territory with
her husband, John Simpson and the older brothers William Henry
& Andrew Vinton, along with younger brother James Galleo (so her
sister Nancy moved to Indian Territory too). Younger siblings
(Robert Reddish, George Augustus, Edmund E & Mary Elizabeth) either
stayed in the Illinois area or migrated to Missouri &
Kansas.
They farmed in
Indian Territory under a permit issued by the Tribal Authorities in
1868 some 21 years before Indian Territory was opened to white
settlement. A number of the family participated in the "Run of
1889", which opened the Unassigned Lands for homesteading and let to
Oklahoma's statehood in 1907. Eva lost her husband John Simpson,
that January before the land opening in April 1889. It can be
assumed, we believe that John & Eva also were making plans to make the
run to stake their claim, but his untimely death just a few months before
The Run of 1889 probably led her to stay in the White Bead Hill area near
other family members. Son, Edmund Presley and his new father-in-law
George Carrier staked claims near what is now the University of Oklahoma
campus, near Noble, OK.
Eva died February
4, 1916 at the age of 76. She is buried in Lexington,
Oklahoma.
Maude Frances (Carrier)
Thompson
Wife of
Edmund Presley Thompson
Mother
of our grandfather, Albert
Galleo Thompson
Grandmother to us all
1870-1927
Maude Frances (Carrier), wife of Edmund Presley was born on
Christmas Day, 1870 in Minnesota to George W. & Mary (Johnson) Carrier
and would have turned 56 just a few months before her death.
She died March 11, 1927 and is buried in the Blanchard Cemetery,
Blanchard, OK. She She and Edmund were married April 20, 1887 and he
made the Run of 1889 to stake their claim in Oklahoma Territory.
Edmund lived just over 10 years after Maude passed away, himself
dying June 18. 1937. He also is buried in the Blanchard
Cemetery.
Ada (White)
Thompson
First Wife
of Albert Galleo Thompson
Mother
of Ruby, Eula, Bertie, Vina & Iva
died at
the age of 34, giving birth to their first son who also
died
February
7, 1889- February 23, 1923
Lela Emily Iva Pearl (McQuilliams)
Thompson
Second
Wife of Albert Galleo Thompson
Mother
of Bill, Loyd, Jimmy Glen, Melvin, Geraldine, Norma Jean &
Louise
Grandmother to us all
November
27, 1905- October 8, 1982
at the age of
almost 77
Thompson Clan Mothers
As I have
time, I'm going to add to our Thompson Mother's Gallery. We come
from a long line of wonderful, caring, hard-working mothers that have seen
fit to raise us with high moral values and a sense of how important it is
to stay close to family. We have these ladies to thank for us
continuing to be such a close-knit
family!
Take my
advice, if you can still stop by and hug your Mom or give her a call and
tell her how much you love her, do it while you still can. They
won't be with us forever! I sure wish I cold talk to Pauline one
more time and tell her how much I appreciate all the sacrifices she made
for us through the years.
In
loving memory
of my
wonderful Mom,
Pauline
Kathryn Compton Thompson
Pauline
Kathryn (Compton) Thompson
Mother of Billy
Paul & Barbara, wife of Bill
Grandmother of
Christy, Stephanie, Dustin, Bethany
died at the age of
60
March 4,
1929 - December 22, 1989
Happy
Mothers Day, Everyone!
