Thomas Treason Thompson Sr. (abt. 1839 - 1907)

Born about Sep 1839 in Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas

Ancestors

Husband of Eliza Jane (Roberts) Thompson — married 15 Sep 1858 in Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas

Husband of Caroline (Cash) Thompson — married 26 Jan 1897 in Monroe County, Florida

Descendants

Died 3 Aug 1907 at about age 67 in Monroe County, Florida

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Thomas Thompson Sr. is part of a Bahamian family.

Biography

Thomas was born circa September 1839 in the Bahamas, probably in Hope Town.^[1] He was the son of John "Old Keg" Thompson and Elizabeth Mary Wright Russell.

He married first Eliza Jane Roberts on 15 September 1858 in Hope Town.^[2] Thomas became a widower when Eliza died in 1892.^[3]

He married second Caroline (Cash) Russell on 26 January 1897 in Monroe County, Florida, in a ceremony performed by B. F. Mason, M. of G.^[4]

Thomas died on 3 August 1907 in Monroe County,^[5] and he is buried in the Key West City Cemetery.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ The most precise version of Thomas's birth appears on the 1900 census. It is consistent with the circa 1839–40 birth date implied in the 1885 Florida state census. 1900 U.S. Census, Monroe County, Florida, population schedule, Key Largo Seventh Precinct, enumeration district 107, stamped page 192A, sheet 4, dwelling 87, family 88, Thomas Thompson household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://interactive.ancestry.com/7602/004120049_00727/34161315?backurl=http://person.ancestry.com/tree/37835005/person/19714490671/facts/citation/155141787498/edit/record : accessed November 2015); citing National Archives microfilm T623, roll 174. 1885 Florida State Census, Monroe County, Key West, enumeration district 4, page 32D, 306, family 347, Thomas Thompson household; digital image, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6XS8-4Q?i=181 : accessed November 2015); citing National Archives microfilm publication M845.
2. ↑ Oreste Lombardi, comp., Thomas Thompson, no. 13876, Abaco ged.ged, 2013 Dolly Mae Bahamas 40th Anniversary CD (Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas: Wyannie Malone Museum, 2014); citing "civ. reg. Official Bahamas records." The 1858 marriages are not included in the digitized collection on FamilySearch.
3. ↑ Michael Abramson, "Margaret Eliza Jane Roberts Thompson," Memorial no. 140642480, posted 30 December 2014; memorial without photograph, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=140642480 : accessed November 2015). Leonard H. Smith Jr., The Records of the Key West Cemetery, Key West, Florida, 1888–1905 (Clearwater, Fla.: Owl Books, 1984), 177, Eliza J. Thompson, d. 8 December 1892.
4. ↑ Monroe County Marriage Licenses 4: 334, Thomas Thompson and Caroline Russell, 26 January 1897; digital image, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89KN-YCY4?i=529&cat=341167 : accessed November 2015).
5. ↑ This date of death appears on his Find A Grave memorial; however, the source for the information is not stated. No entry has been found for him in the Florida Death Index. Michael Abramson, "Thomas Treason Thompson," Memorial no. 140642464, posted 30 December 2014; memorial without photograph, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=140642464&ref=acom : accessed November 2015).
6. ↑ Michael Abramson, "Thomas Treason Thompson," Memorial no. 140642464, posted 30 December 2014; memorial without photograph, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=140642464&ref=acom : accessed November 2015).