U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Thompson, James L. (1864-1949) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Page 486 James L. Thompson, born near Calhoun, 1864, son of James and Maria (Day) Thompson, was married May 5, 1889, to Lucy A., widow of Henry Dayton, who died in 1886. She is a daughter of Samuel and Catherine (Knapp) Delauder. Children, Ethel Catherine, Cornelia Edith, Benjamin Harold. He is a member of the M. E. Church, a Republican and a farmer, living near Calhoun. Mrs. Thompson's grandfather, Henry Knapp, came to West Virginia from New York, and her father was a soldier in the Union army. Catherine Knapp, mother of Mrs. Thompson, was born 1829 at Lost River, Hardy County. She was a daughter of Jacob and Barbara (Feather) Delauder, and came to Barbour when eighteen years of age, where she married Samuel Knapp. Their children were, John Williamson, Marietta, America, George W., Stephen Hezekiah, Edith Elizabeth, Cornelia Indiana, Lucy Adaline, Samuel Willie, David Festus. Mrs. Knapp has belonged to the M. E. Church 52 years. Mrs. Knapp's great grandfather, Lawrence Delauder, died in 1835 at the age of 103; her grandfather, Abram Delauder, lived to the age of 95, and her father to the age of 83. Her grandfather, George Feather, served in the Revolutionary War. Samuel Knapp was in the Union army. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Harrison County, WV #2940 FULL-NAME: James Lee Thompson BIRTH-DATE: March 12, 1864 BIRTH-PLACE: Barbour County, WV DEATH-DATE: March 23, 1949 DEATH-PLACE: Residence, Clarksburg, Harrison County, WV USUAL-RESIDENCE: 101 Tuna St., Clarksburg, Harrison County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Married FATHER: Rev. James D. C. Thompson MOTHER: Mariah Day CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Chronic Endocarditis INFORMANT: Mrs. J. S. Elliott, daughter BURIAL: Stonewall Park Cem., March 25, 1949 (wife of James L. Thompson) From Death Certificate, Harrison County, WV #15792 FULL-NAME: Lucy Adeline Thompson BIRTH-DATE: November 23, 1863 BIRTH-PLACE: Barbour County, WV DEATH-DATE: November 22, 1949 DEATH-PLACE: 101 Tuna St., Clarksburg, Harrison County, WV USUAL-RESIDENCE: 101 Tuna St., Clarksburg, Harrison County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widowed FATHER: Samuel Knapp MOTHER: Katherine Delauder Knapp CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Cerebral Hemorrhage INFORMANT: Mrs. J. S. Elliott, daughter BURIAL: Stonewall, Nov 24, 1949 There's a double tombstone in the Stonewall Park Cemetery, Harrison County, WV THOMPSON JAMES LUCY 1864-1949 1863-1949 ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------