JOHN THOMPSON was born March 28, 1783, in Pennsylvania; went to Kentucky at twenty years of age, and there married Elizabeth Ferguson, who was born in Kentucky, June 18, 1791. They moved from Montgomery county, Kentucky, in the autumn of 1836, and settled one mile west of the village of Mechanicsburg. Of their nine children, four sons and two daughters are living. Mr. Thompson died in Sangamon county, Illinois, October 14, 1855. Mrs. Thompson died November 22, 1868, also in Sangamon county. He had previously been married, and had two children, both of whom, with the mother, are dead. The mother died when the children were quite young, and James died in Indiana, in 1835, and John, the youngest, in 1837, in Sangamon County, Illinois.