Samuel Thompson, with his family moved from Oswego New York State to Calhoun Co Mich. In 1837. They were farmers and settled near the town of Albion and lived there fifteen years. The death angel visited the home several times and the mother, Polly Ann Worden Thompson as well as several children died during those years. In the year 1852, Samuel Thompson and at least two of his sons – Clinton DeWitt and Oscar Fitzaland moved to Iowa and settled in a village called Bradford, Chickasaw County.
Samuel Thompson kept some kind of a tavern or hotel at Bradford and died four years later in 1856. He was buried just east of the Little Brown Church a short way. His body later was removed to a new cemetery called Greenwood.
(Info from "The Thompson Family Story" by Calvin Carlton Thompson)
Samuel Thompson, with his family moved from Oswego New York State to Calhoun Co Mich. In 1837. They were farmers and settled near the town of Albion and lived there fifteen years. The death angel visited the home several times and the mother, Polly Ann Worden Thompson as well as several children died during those years. In the year 1852, Samuel Thompson and at least two of his sons – Clinton DeWitt and Oscar Fitzaland moved to Iowa and settled in a village called Bradford, Chickasaw County.
Samuel Thompson kept some kind of a tavern or hotel at Bradford and died four years later in 1856. He was buried just east of the Little Brown Church a short way. His body later was removed to a new cemetery called Greenwood.
(Info from "The Thompson Family Story" by Calvin Carlton Thompson)
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