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_Charles N. THOMPSON _|
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|--Harriett Ellen THOMPSON
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| _Roswell Riggs CHAPMAN _|____________________________
| _John O. CHAPMAN __|
| | | _Judge Recompence STANBURY _
| | |_Phoebe STANBURY _______|_Eunice OGDEN ______________
|_Martha E. CHAPMAN ___|
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| _Rev. Simeon WOODRUFF __|____________________________
|_Mary S. WOODRUFF _|
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|_Mary (Polly) GRANGER __|____________________________
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BIO: THE THOMPSON FAMILY HARRIETT THOMPSON
JACOBS (Our Mother) was called "Hattie" by her own choosing. She had
been named for a beloved aunt, Aunt Hattie Greenleaf, Her mother's
sister. Her parents, Charles and Martha Chapman Thompson, had been
born and married in Ohio. Their first- born child, John Harley, was
also born in Ohio and at the age of seven months died in New Richland,
Ohio. Since all of the other children in the family were born in
Illinois, we assume they moved there around 1863. And since the
youngest, Tommy, was born in 1878 in Raymond, IL and the mother,
Martha, died in Iowa in 1881, we assume, too, they moved to Iowa
between those two dates. They lived around the Newton, Colfax, Metz
area, both Charles and Martha being buried in a Metz cemetery. Martha,
our Grandmother Thompson, was very ill with tuberculosis the last year
of her life. She was only 43 years old when she died, leaving seven
children alone with her grieving husband. Minnie, the oldest, was 18
at the time and Tommy, the baby, was 3. Nate (Nathan) was 5 and our
mother, Hattie, was 7. Hattie often related a few of the memories she
had of her mother and always kept a little tin box shaped like a trunk
in which she kept her treasures. Among the treasures were a little
ring and a bracelet which she remembered her mother giving her just
before she died. Martha also kept a diary during those last months of
her illness and we learned much about her by reading it. We knew how
much she loved her husband and children and sadly knew she was leaving
them before long; we knew how much she appreciated all the help the
relatives gave them at this time. We learned she liked to read
poetry. A few pieces of beautiful lace she made during her illness
are still in existence. Our mother prized all of these mementoes. Our
Grandmother Thompson lived only in memory for her children. And at
this writing (1969) all of her children are also dead. Grandpa
Thompson kept the family together the best he could, with the aid of
the older children, Minnie, Harry and Emma. Len was only 11 years
old. Emma died while still a young woman and Minnie married Shelby
Wall. Minnie and Shelby shared their home with the little sister
Hattie part of the time and she never forgot their kindness. She never
forgot how thrilled she was with a new pair of shoes Shelby bought her
and altho she knew they were too short for her feet, she didn't tell
anyone for fear they would take them back to the store. Perhaps the
next ones wouldn't be so beautiful! In her Treasure Box, too, she had
a ring they gave her on one of her birthdays. Grandpa Thompson married
again and in the second family, twin girls were born. Three more
generations of twins were born in our family after this. Hattie and
George had twin boys, Harry and Harvey; Lee and Jennie had twin girls,
Alice and Elsie; and Rollie and Mina Jacobs have twins, a boy and a
girl, named Steven and Janelle. When Harry and Len Thompson were young
men, they came up to Palo Alto County to find work and do some
farming. Their sister Hattie came to keep house for them and they
found many friends. Then all married. Hattie married George Jacobs,
Jr., they lived with his parents and Fern was born in their home.
Before Lee was born, they built a new home about a city block away
from Grandpa and Grandma Jacobs' house. Their house grew as the family
grew and all the rest of the children in the family were born there.
By the time Grandma Jacobs (Almira Warren) was around 90 years old,
most of George and Hattie's family were grown up and since Grandma
needed care, they moved in with her together with Irene, Bernard and
Donald. They lived there a few years after her death and then moved to
town. They lived in this home in West Bend several years and both
died in the same house. Hattie had a stroke on March 17 and lived
with complete paralysis for exactly one year, passing away on March
16, 1951. George lived 5 years longer and died August 26, 1956.
Except for one child, dying when 6 weeks old, all of their children
are living at this writing-1969. They are Fern, Lee, Viva, Frank,
Harvey, Harry, Irene, Bernard and Donald.
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