Mathew M. Thompson

    Mathew M. Thompson was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, February 12, 1815, the only child of John S. and Margaret (Thompson) Thompson, his father a native of Adams County, Pennsylvania, a son of Joseph Thompson, who was a native of Ireland, and his mother a native of Ireland, a daughter of Mathew Thompson, who came to America when she was six years old. His parents were married In Pennsylvania, and when he was a child they moved to Ohio, and subsequently to Brooke County, West Virginia, where the father died. Two years after the father's death Mathew and his mother moved to Guernsey County, Ohio, and rented a farm. In 1841 they came to Blackford County, and settle din the woods on section 15, Jackson Township. This land had been entered there a few years before by his father-in-law, and a year before he had erected a log cabin on it into which he moved his family. A few months later he built a hewed-log house beside his first cabin, which was occupied by his mother until her death, which occurred in June, 1850.

    Mr. Thompson was married June 23, 1840, to Jane Huffman, who was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, March 3, 1840, a daughter of George and Mary (Kimbell) Huffman, natives of Washington County, Pennsylvania. her father died in Guernsey County, aged sixty-seven years, and her mother in Blackford County, Indiana, aged eighty-nine years. They were the parents of eleven children-Elizabeth, Jane, John, Nathan, Delilah, George, Nancy, Ephraim,. William, Abraham and Joshua.

    Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have had seven children -John, born June 12, 1842, died February 23, 1883; Mary, born April 3, 1844; Rachel, born March 3, 1846; Elizabeth, born October, 1848; George, born April, 1850; Margaret, born march 5, 1852; and William, born April 6, 1854.

Source: Biographical and Historical Record of Jay and Blackford Counties, Indiana by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887.