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Descendants of Moses THOMPSON
and
Margaret MORRIS

Up Dated 9 February 2008

1. Lewis THOMPSON

Lewis was born 17 February 1801; probably in Middlesex county, New Jersey, as land and property records for the year of 1803 in Herkimer county New York state he is from that county and state.

In March of 1835 Moses THOMPSON started out from Herikemer County, New York, with his son Lewis and daughters Rachel and Lucinda for Michigan having purchaced land in Livingston County the year previous. In January 1836 the first post office was established in Howell, but there were no provisions for carring the mail to and from the new office until March 20th, when Lewis THOMPSON took the contract to make weekly trips to Kensington, on horse back, for that purpose.

He served in that capacity for several of the earlier years of Howell, He never married, but lived with his mother, after his father's death.

From The History of Livingston County Michigan.

Hon. Jerome W. TURNER, who, from the days of his boyhood in Howell, remembers Lewis THOMPSON and his mother, mentioned them in a recent address, as follows:
"And there, too, was Lewis THOMPSON, an old bachelor, who had the Thompson farm, by right of primogeniture; a strange, silent, unfashionable old man, who did not say much to little boys, or they to him, for A-age left them with the impression that he belonged to the family of Elisha, and possibly had fourteen bears near by to devour too familiar children.  There, too, was his old mother, a large and fleshy woman, kind and motherly, and I remember that, after passing Lewis in the lane, and getting into the kitchen where she was, I felt perfectly safe, and knew instinctively that she would guard me from all the bears in the world...
Shortly after I left the county I learned that Lewis THOMPSON was found dead on a seat under a tree near the old farm-house, and somehow his death in that especial way did not seem to me to be unexpected, and I listened to it as though I had been familiar with it beforehand.   He died right out in one of the ways and attitudes of the living, and his death made no more sign than his quiet, unostentatious life.   His mother fell from a chair in the garden, and, by reason of her great weight, injured herself so that she died.   The two seemed inseperable, and I have often thought that while sitting on his seat in the yard, he caught sight of her, and finally went to join her, as he would have moved through the soft grass of his pastures to milk his cows."

Genealogical Death Indexing System - Michigan

     THOMPSON, LEWIS 
     Date of death:      22-Jul-1870
     Ledger Page:        150
     Record Number:      35
     Place of death:     Howell
     County of Death:    Livingston
     Sex:                Male
     Race:               WHITE
     Marital Status:     Single
     Age:                67 years 5 months 6 days
     Cause of Death:     HEART DISEASE
     Birthplace:         Not Recorded
     Occupation:         FARMER
     Father's Name:      Last name not recorded,  First name not recorded
     Father's Residence: Not Recorded
     Mother's Name:      Thompson, Margaret
     Mother's Residence: Not Recorded
     Date of record:     17-May-1871

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