Thompson, John bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 965, Woodland Township
John Thompson, farmer, P. O., Astoria; he was born in Maryland Aug. 26, 1802; his father, Samuel Thompson, was born in New Jersey, from whence he removed to Maryland, where he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Asher; they had 9 children. John, the eldest son, grew to manhood in Coshocton county, Ohio, where he married Betsy Leviston, by whom he had two children, - Samuel and Wm. Two years after the decease of his first wife, which occurred in 1837, Mr. T. married Nancy Markley, of Ohio, by whom he had one child, - Benjamin. Scarcely had a year gone by when this lady also died, and in 1840 Mr. Thompson married Keziah Herell, by whom he has 9 children. Mr. T. emigrated to Fulton county about 1842. he is now the owner of 124 acres of land.