06-James Harvey Thompson
Birth: 7 Jan 1836, Carroll Co, IN
Death: 8 Dec 1909, Ft Cobb, Caddo Co, OK- age 73
Mother: Amanda Jane Garriott

Marriage: 24 Nov 1859
Spouse: Mary Jane ROBINSON
Birth: 7 Jul 1842, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co, OH
Death: 17 Aug 1914, Ft. Cobb, Caddo Co, OK- age 72

     CHILDREN: James and Mary Jane had eight children, seven born in Wash Co, IN:
07----AMANDA ALICE THOMPSON [b. 21 Aug 1860, d. 12 Sep 1938- age 78];
07----NEWTON FLETCHER THOMPSON [b. 20 Jun 1862, d. 24 Feb 1932- age 69];

07----BYRON ASHBEL THOMPSON [b. 22 Feb 1864, IN; d. 24 Apr 1935, Mansfield, Scott Co, AR- age 71, bur. Coop Prairie Cemetery], m. Mary Jane VAUGHT [b. 24 Jul 1869, Johnson Co, AR; d. 24 Mar 1952, Mansfield, Sebastian Co, AR- age 82, bur. Coop Prairie Cemetery] on 24 Dec 1885, Johnson Co, AR, had nine children: [Lavin Family Tree]
     08----CORA EDITH THOMPSON [b. 4 Nov 1886, Ozone, Johnson Co, AR; d. 8 Sep 1910, Oklahoma City, OK- age 23], m. Arthur Scott SIM[PSON [b. 21 Jan 1883, Dover, Pope Co, AR; d. 26 Jan 1939, Goose Creek, Harris Co, TX- age 56], son of Jefferson Simpson and Elizabeth Lambert;
     08----SEWARD CONRAD THOMPSON [b. 11 Mar 1889, Ozone, Johnson Co, AR; d. 2 Dec 1930, Port Arthur, Jefferson Co, TX- age 41, bur. Greenlawn Memorial Park], m. Beulah M FRAZIER [b. 25 Jul 1895; d. 29 Dec 1949- age 54, bur. Greenlawn Memorial Park], the daughter of George M Frazier (1868-1934) and Dora A Holbert (1871-1950), had two daughters:

          09----EDITH JAYNE THOMPSON [b. 1912; d. 1998- age 85, bur. Greenlawn Memorial Park];

          09----MABEL THOMPSON [b. 17 Sep 1914; d. 13 Sep 2003- age 88, bur. Hallsville Cemetery], m. Cecil CHOATE [b. 8 Oct 1920; d. 10 Oct 2005- age 85, bur. Hallsville Cemetery], son of Seaborn Cloy Choate (1887-1961) and Pearl Moore (1891-1963);​
     08----MARY FRANCIS THOMPSON [b. 13 Aug 1891, Ozone, Johnson Co, AR; d. 23 Mar 1949, Santa Fe Co, NM- age 57] (was boarder in house of Veterinarian Surgeon in 1930 Santa Fe, NM census);
     08----BRYAN VAUGHT THOMPSON [b. 6 Sep 1893, Ozone, Johnson Co, AR; d. 1894, Ozone, Johnson Co, AR- age 1];
     08----VIVIAN BEULAH THOMPSON [b. 24 Apr 1896, Ozone, Johnson Co, AR; d. 17 Sep 1972, Bend, Deschutes Co, OR- age 76, bur. Keno Cemetery], m. Alan Giles GOLDEN [b. 22 Jul 1894, Holland, Pipestone Co, MN; d. 31 Aug 1957, Klamath Falls, Klamath Co, OR- age 63, bur. Keno Cemetery], had three children:
          09----BILLY ALLEN GOLDEN [b. 31 Mar 1924, Concrete, Skagit Co, WA; d. 22 Nov 1998, Janesville, Rock Co, WI- age 74, bur. Oak Hill Cemetery], m. Helen Marie KENAGA [b. 20 Sep 1933; d. 29 Jun 2011- age 77]; lived in Port Arthur, Jefferson Co, TX, had two children;
          09----MARY JEANNETTE GOLDEN [b. 19 Jul 1926, Concrete, Skagit Co, WA; d. 14 Apr 1996, Jacksonville, Duval Co, FL- age 69];
          09----FRANCES RUTH GOLDEN [b. 1 Dec 1927, Skagit Co, WA; d. 28 Jul 1980, Douglas Co, OR- age 52], m. James Patrick LAVIN [b. 4 Dec 1925, Clear Lake, Deuel Co, SD; d. 31 May 1998, Douglas Co, OR- age 72] in 1952, had eight children:
     08----LOIS RUTH THOMPSON [b. 1 Sep 1899; d. 24 Dec 1976, Josephine Co, OR- age 77, bur. Hawthorne Memorial Gardens];​
     08----VERA GLADYS THOMPSON [b. 23 May 1904; d. 5 Dec 1984- age 80, bur. Santa Fe National Cemetery];​
     08----WILFORD NEAL THOMPSON [b. 14 Ju 1906, AR; d. 4 Dec 1930, Port Arthur, Jefferson Co, TX- age 24, bur. Coop Prairie Cemetery];
     08----EDNA MARIE THOMPSON [b. 25 Oct 1907, Ozone, Johnson Co, AR; d 13 Dec 1989, Albuquerque, Bernalillo Co, NM- age 82, bur. Sunset Memorial Park];

07----MARY MINNIE THOMPSON [b. 22 Oct 1866, d. Jan 1944- age 78];
07----WILFORD WALTON THOMPSON [b. 3 Mar 1872, IN: d. 29 Oct 1946, Clarksville, Johnson Co, AR- age 74, bur. Oakland Memorial Cemetery], m. Minnie M ___ [b. 5 Mar 1874; d. 16 Aug 1959- age 84, bur. Oakland Memorial Cemetery];

07----ROBERT EMMETT THOMPSON [b. 17 Jan 1875, IN; d. 5 May 1931- age 56];
07----JAMES BERTRAS THOMPSON [b. 22 Jul 1877, d. 6 Jun 1938- age 60]; and
07----LURA MAUD THOMPSON [b. 1884- listed below].​

     BIOGRAPHY: [This is the beginning of a biography of Byron Ashbel Thompson and Mary Jane "Mollie" Vaught's family, by their daughter Vivian Beulah Thompson Golden. It was cut short in it's writing - perhaps someone rang the phone or a pot of oyster stew was boiling over, as the writing stops rather abruptly. We wish it had been completed (not the stew...the story).]
Klamath Falls, [Oregon] February 22, 1964
[courtesy of findagrave.com]

     One hundred years ago today, my beloved father, Byron Ashbel Thompson was born in Southern Indiana, I do not know much of his childhood. I remember we used to play a little game - one would start a poem and see if the other could finish it - I asked him where he learned so many beautiful poems, he told me his father [James Harvey Thompson, also from Indiana] had a photogenic memory and could recite Byron's poems by the hour, as they worked together in the cooper shop (1), he learned these from his father.

     I remember someone told me father was a beautiful child and older girls would chase him and when caught would kiss him. It would embarrass him. He told me once that he walked seven miles to school, and did not have a top coat. I never heard my father say an unkind word of his parents. I was shocked when Uncle Wilford [Byron's brother] told me on the morning of his death (we sat on the back porch steps) and almost to himself he said "He was a little dog, just a little dog for the family" - I was too grieved to ask a question. Later, I did ask Aunt Alice, papa's oldest sister, she told me grandmother [Mary Jane Robinson] was a semi-invalid and there were eight children, my father being the third child worked in the house, the field, the cooper shop.

     At sixteen years of age, papa with his family moved to the Southern Ozarks. They settled in the Boston Mountains in Arkansas. Here the mild climate was a boon to grandmother's health. I do not know much of what happened until he met my mother, beautiful Mary Jane Vaught as a girl of sixteen, he was 21. My mother told me Grand[mother] Vaught was pleased with my father and encouraged their early marriage, and grandfather thought little of school teachers and did not approved. However, December 25, 1885 [Jimmie...does this match your Ark Records?], they married. Father told me he was embarrassed because mother did not have a coat, but wore a knitted shawl. Mother said "Byron's folks did not have feather beds, I thought it was terrible." They lived with father's parents awhile, then homesteaded 40 acres of land near Ozone, Ark. They built a two room log cabin, cleared the land and planted an apple orchard. In this cabin Edith, Seward, Frankie, Vaught and I were born. I was four years old when we left those beautiful mountains, but I can still hear the water rushing down the mountain side, I can still hear red birds, thrushes, mockingbirds, cat birds, all kinds. Once I remember father woke us children at four o'clock to listen to the birds. I can remember listening for a wagon lumbering among the rocks on the winding road, grandpa and grandma were coming and the sounds were music. I so loved them.

     Then we moved for a time down on Mulberry River (before that, I can't remember). We went to Clarksville where papa attended College of the Ozarks. One evening in early autumn 1900, papa came home from a Methodist Protestant Annual Conference. He was going to Mansfield, Scott Co., seventy miles away as a circuit rider - Mother cried and begged him not to take her away from her family, but he felt God had called and being the head of the house... Later, Uncle (we called men we liked uncle) Billy Casey and Billy Bartholemew came with their wagons. Three wagons held our earthly goods - the only things I remember was camping out, and as we neared Abbott, near our new home, we stopped in front of a church to see if a mud hole was passable. I heard [a] beautiful sound and ask[ed] my brother Seward what it could be. He told me "Stupid, it's an organ." I can't remember hearing one before.

     A few more miles and we were at Billy Bartholemew's. We had oyster stew (2), another first for me. We soon moved into a small house near Bartholemews'. Papa had four appointments on his circuit. First was at Mansfield, a thriving little lumber town of 1,000. The second was Shiloh, a community five miles west of our home. Third, Lynch Prairie, twelve miles east. Last, Cauthorn, twenty miles away over Poteau Mountains. Father was young and vigorous, and put his soul into his work. My mother was an outgoing person, beautiful, deeply religious and helpful. There were five of us children and each Sunday we went with papa in a two seated hack. The first year we were promised $400.00 but much of it was paid in salt port, sorghum molasses, and what have you. We could not exist on this so father taught school. First at Coop Prairie, the school is not there now. He also clerked in stores.

     Then the church built a parsonage near town. Here we lived four years. My sister Gladys was born here and my sister Edith was married to Arthur S. Simpson. The wedding was an event in my life - [I was] eight [years old] now - Father bought Edith white kid slippers and she wore a white satin gown. She was such a lovable personality - dark, dark hair, blue eyes and a fair complexion. It was an event never for me to forget.

     Father decided to give up his beloved circuit and we moved to Cauthorn where papa taught. In the mean time we bought two a[cres] of land just south of the parsonage and Ira Brock, one of papa's flock, built a four room house for us for $200 labor. One morning mother went to Mansfield and here was born my parents' first grandchild, Arthur Ralph Simpson. Soon papa and I went over to see Ralph. Spring came and we found ourselves back in Mansfield in our new home, 1904. Here my parents lived until father went to heaven [1934] and mother lingered on until 1952. Last year, Ralph sold the place - I'm getting ahead - Let's go back. [No more was written, or it has been forever misplaced.]

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     CENSUS:
     1870 Wash Co, IN census: has James H Thompson 37, b. IN, Farmer w/ $1,500 RE; Mary J Thompson 28, b. OH, Keeping House; Amanda A Thompson 9, b. IN; Newton F Thompson 8, b. IN; Byron A Thompson 6, b. IN; Minnie M Thompson 4, b. IN; and Augusta P Thompson 10/12, b. IN.
     Next door is Huldah Garriott 48, Keeping House; and Sarah J Wiggam 28.
     Two doors further down is Finley Garriott 26, Farmer; Frances Garriott 20; and Eddie Garriott 3.
     1880 Johnson Co, AR census: has James Thompson 45, IN, Farmer; MJ Thompson 37, b. MO, Keeping House; MA Thompson 19, b. IN, Keeping House; NF Thompson 18, b. IN, Farmer; BA Thompson 16, b. IN, Farmer; MM Thompson 13, b. IN, Keeping House; WW Thompson 8, b. IN; Robt E Thompson 5, b. IN; and BJ Thompson 3, b. IN.
     1900 Johnson Co, AR census: has James H Thompson 66, b. IN, Farmer; Mary J Thompson 57, b. OH; and Lura M Thompson 15, b. AR.
     Next door is James Thompson 22, b. IN Farmer; Nancy E Thompson 21, b. IN; and Cecil W Thompson 1, b. AR.
     1910 Scott Co, AR census: has Byron A Thompson 45, b. IN, Teacher-Public School; Mary J Thompson 40, b. AR; Seward C Thompson 21, b. AR, Teacher-Public School; Francis M Thompson 18, b. AR; Vivian B Thompson 14, b. AR; Lois R Thompson 10, b. AR; Vera G Thompson 5, b. AR; Wilford N Thompson 3, b. AR; and Edna N Thompson 2, b. AR.
     1910 Johnson Co, AR census: has (all b. AR) Wilford Thompson 35, Manager-Store; Minnie Thompson 36 (7 children- 5 living); May Thompson 16; Elmo Thompson 13; Cecil Thompson 9; Byson Thompson 7; and Ewell Thompson 5.
     Next door is Bertie Thompson 32; and Nancy Thompson 31; and their children.
     1920 Haskell Co, OK census: has Robert E Thompson 44, b. IN, School Teacher; Emma M Thompson 35, b. MS, Merchant; Narborne E Thompson 14, b. AR, Student; Grady M Thompson 12, b. AR; Lovell F Thompson 9, b. AR; and Blanch L Thompson 3, b. OK.
     1930 Mayes Co, OK census: has Robert E Thompson 55, b. IN, Merchant, divorced; and Lovell F Thompson 28, b. AR; and Albert S Hunter, Nephew 24, b. AR, Merchant.