BIRTH: Birth certificate (Carolyn Cragun).
DEATH: Death certificate (Carolyn Cragun).
Also known as "O.B."
BIRTH: Birth certificate. Copy in poss. of Carolyn Cragun.
MARRIAGE: Marriage certificate. Copy in poss. of Carolyn Cragun.
DEATH: Death certificate. Copy in poss. of Carolyn Cragun. Died of cancer.
Information provided by Crawford Paul Cragun
DEATH: Stillborn
Occupation: Rancher
BIRTH: Birth certificate.
MARRIAGE: Marriage certificate. Bland County Marriage Records, page 29, #1.
DEATH: Death certificate. Matches date given in the Hanna, Alberta Newspaper
dated 13 JAN 1916.
MARRIAGE: Bland County Vital Records. Film 030630. Called "M.A.Thompson".
Lived in Bland County at time of marraige.BIRTH: Family records of Carolyn Cragun. (Letter from Margaret Lou
Shufflebarger, her sister). M.M.Beach lists her as Malissia Adaline Thompson.DEATH: Certified Extraction from Death Records of Ontario.
Went by the name "Addie".
BIRTH: Family records of Carolyn Cragun, niece.
DEATH: Family records of Carolyn Cragun.
BIRTH: Tombstone. Date matches calculated date from
marriage record (age 24), but disagrees with date of 20 SEPT 1840 on death
certificate. Place of birth on death certificate is Bland,
but marriage records say Tazewell, which would have been correct at the time.MARRIAGE: Bland County Vital Statistics. Page 3. Parents recorded as "Ja &
Sar Thompson."DEATH: Death certificate. Lists mother as "Sallie Herring".
David Fleming Thompson was Commissioner of Revenue for Bland County, Virginia
--1891-1895 (page 222, "History of Bland County")BIRTH-DEATH-SPOUSE: Letter from Mary-Margaret Beach, Warrenton MO, to Brian
Cragun, Rochester MN; 1750-1880; Letter dtd 3 Mar 1995; pg 4; original in poss
of Brian Cragun. NOTES: Cites death certificate, tombstone inscription for both
birth and death. Suggest D.F.Thompson in Bland Co. Deed Book #6, p. 382, may
be David Fleming. States burial place as Hearne Cemetery on Walker's Creek.BIRTH-CENSUS-SIBLINGS: James L. Douthat, 1860 WYTHE COUNTY, VA. CENSUS; 1860;
1986, Mountain Press, Signal Mountain, TN; pp 49 family 1070; FHL, 975.5773 X2d,
SLC;
BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL-SPOUSE-CHILD: Letter from Mary-Margaret Beach, Warrenton
MO, to Brian Cragun, Rochester MN; 1750-1880; Letter dtd 3 Mar 1995; pg 4;
original in poss of Brian Cragun. NOTES: Cites handwritten notes from her Aunt Sallie Johnston Walthall, and 17 Mar 1991 letter from Mary Thompson Bryson. Catherine died "on a farm owned by her son Franklin Miller... about 8 miles northwest of Pulaski on the Robertson Tract Rd." The family farmstead is also the location of the family cemetery.DEATH: Death certificate, copy in poss. of Brian Cragun. Tombstone.
BURIAL: PAF GEDCOM; 1994; Linda Long, Pembroke, VA; ; ;
NAME: Referred to as C.Y.Thompson when named as parent on children's marraige certificates. Y is for Young. Name is spelled "Catherine" on most records, but is spelled "Catharine" on her death certificate. Refferred to as "Caty" by husband Franklin Wagonner in letters [MM Beach].
MARRIAGE-PARENTS: Bland County Virginia Register of Marriages; 1861-1929; ; p 3; LDS microfilm #0030630 item 2; NOTES: Previously married to Franklin P.
Waggoner. Referred to as "C. Y. Wagoner" at the time of her marriage to David
Fleming Thompson. Parents are listed as "Jacob & Mary Muncy." Catherine brought three young children with her from her first marriage to her second marriage. Her marriage record lists her as 25 in 1866, but other sources confirm her birth as 25 Oct 1836, in particular her tombstone bears this date.PARENTS: Catherine is living with Jacob & Mary Muncy in the 1850 census.
Her parents are listed as Jacob & Mary Muncy on her marriage record. However,
her death certificate lists her mother's name as Catherine Young; but there is
no record of Jacob Munsey having married any Catherine Young.
The 1850 census shows there was a Catherine Young who was of child bearing age
(18 years) at the time of Catherine Young Munsey's birth, and who lived very
near Jacob Munsey during that time and during the 1850 census. If the death
certificate is correct, there is the strong possibility that this Catherine
Young, born 1818, daughter of Robert and Margaret Young of Giles County, was
the natural mother of Catherine Young Munsey. More details and analysis are
available from Brian Cragun, 2613 24 St NW, Rochester, MN 55901.
BIRTH: Family records of Carolyn Cragun.
(Letter from Margaret Louise Shufflebarger, a sister, to Doris Thompson
Harris). Twin of Franklin Miller Thompson.DEATH: Family records of Carolyn Cragun. Death and burial place assumed to
be Kimberling, Bland, VA. Died of whooping cough.BIRTH-DEATH-PARENTS-SIBLINGS: PAF GEDCOM; 1994; Linda Long,
Pembroke, VA; ; ;
BIRTH-DEATH: His sister Margaret Lou, lists name as David, birth 4 AUG 1873.
Mary Margaret Beach lists name as James David F. Thompson, birth 4 MAY 1873,
which may be more correct since he died from burns sustained when he crawled
into the fireplace.PARENTS-DEATH: Letter from Mary-Margaret Beach, Warrenton MO, to Brian Cragun,
Rochester MN; 1750-1880; Letter dtd 3 Mar 1995; pg 9; original in poss of Brian
Cragun. NOTES: Cites Mary Thompson Bryson, who was told by Catherine Young
Munsey Thompson personally about James David's death as a result of burns
sustained when he crawled into the fireplace. David was old enough to crawl but
apparently not old enough to walk. Catherine had left the two older girls,
Addie and Margaret, and David, asleep on the floor in the living room, while
she went down to the creek for water. During the interval David awakened and
crawled into the fire in the fireplace. He lived only a few hours. It was not
only a painful death for David, it was a painful memory for Catherine through
the years.
Esker Drayton Mitchell Thompson
BIRTH-DEATH: Family records of Carolyn Cragun. MARRIAGE: Never married. NOTES:
"Mitchell" added by Mary Margaret Beach. Middle name may be spelled Dreyton.
FAMILY CONNECTION: Family tradition has long maintained that James F.
Thompson, father of David Fleming Thompson, and James Thompson, son of Amos and
Mary Thompson are the same. Doris Thompson Harris was told (or concluded) they
were the same after discussion she had with a Bruce in 1976. After extensive
study of the Thompsons in the Bland County area, I am also convinced it is so.
The number of James in the area are few, James F. is the best fit.The best supportive record found to date is Netti Schreiner-Yantis, "Archives
of the Pioneers of Tazewell County, Virginia", the abtracted will of George
Wagonner, (page 165), 25 April 1822. George's son, Adam is listed as getting
land on Kimberling Fork. Adam was father of Franklin Waggonner, who was first
husband of Catherine Y. Munsey. Executor was William Bruce, who was a brother
of Mary Bruce, wife of Amos Thompson. Amos is listed as a witness, he was the
father of a James Thompson. William Hearne is a witness; our James F. Thompson
married Sarah (Sallie) Hearne whose father was William Hearne. Catherine Y.
Munsey's second husband was D. F. Thompson, whose father was our James.BIRTH-DEATH-SPOUSE: Letter from Mary-Margaret Beach, Warrenton MO, to Brian
Cragun, Rochester MN; 1750-1880; Letter dtd 3 Mar 1995; pg 4, 10, 12; original
in poss of Brian Cragun. NOTES: Cites Mary Thompson Bryson and Geraldine
Matthews. Include exceprts from 16 Feb 1989 letter from Mary Thompson Bryson.
His daughter Mary (Mollie) Thompson and her husband took care of James and his
wife in their declining years. In 1895 they moved to Kansas, Mo., taking their
parents with them. "They left Bland & only traveled as far as Wytheville when
James died. He was buried in Fairview Cemetery in Wytheville. (You can see the
cemetery from Interstate 77 as you pass by the town.) The party continued their
journey and Polly died somewhere in Tennessee, where she was buried." Mollie &
Haywood continued on to Kansas City.BIRTH-DEATH-SPOUSE-CHILDREN: PAF GEDCOM; 1994; Linda Long, Pembroke, VA;
NOTES: Birth place is stated as Bland in marriage info, but was probably Wythe
county.SPOUSE-MARRIAGE: William T. Hearne, BRIEF HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF THE HEARNE
FAMILY; 1627-1907; 1907, Examiner Printing Company, Independence, Missouri, FHL
Film 0553999, pg. 585; (microfilmed from copy in Library of Congress).LAND: Page 193-194 of Bland County Deeds, lists James Thompson and wife Sally
in sale of land to Lorenzo Thompson. Mentions also Mary Groseclose, David F.
Thompson, George S. Thompson, and E H Thompson.BIRTH-CENSUS-CHILDREN: James L. Douthat, 1860 WYTHE COUNTY, VA. CENSUS; 1860;
1986, Mountain Press, Signal Mountain, TN; pp 49 fasmily 1070; FHL, 975.5773
X2d, SLC;MARRIAGE-BIRTH-SPOUSE-PARENTS: Bland County Virginia Register of Marriages;
1861-1929; ; pg 18; LDS microfilm #0030630 item 2; NOTES: Confirms information
from Linda Long. Says, Mary A. Thompson, age 21, dau. of James and Sally
Thompson, married Hayward A. Groseclose, age 23, son of Andrew Groseclose.
CONFLICT: marriage records says 1859 birth, Long says 1858.
BIRTH: Place listed as Bland on son David Fleming Thompson's death
certificate, "F.M.Thompson" informant. However, this must be Wythe.BIRTH-DEATH-SPOUSE: Letter from Mary-Margaret Beach, Warrenton MO, to Brian
Cragun, Rochester MN; 1750-1880; Letter dtd 3 Mar 1995; pg 4, 10, 12; original
in poss of Brian Cragun. NOTES: Cites Mary Thompson Bryson and Geraldine
Matthews. Include excerpts from 16 Feb 1989 letter from Mary Thompson Bryson.
Her daughter Mary (Mollie) Thompson and her husband took care of James and his
wife in their declining years. In 1895 they moved to Kansas, Mo., taking their
parents with them. "They left Bland & only traveled as far as Wytheville when
James died. He was buried in Fairview Cemetery in Wytheville. (You can see the
cemetery from Interstate 77 as you pass by the town.) The party continued their
journey and Polly died somewhere in Tennessee, where she was buried." Mollie &
Haywood continued on to Kansas City.BIRTH-DEATH-SPOUSE-CHILDREN: PAF GEDCOM; 1994; Linda Long, Pembroke, VA;
NOTES: Birth place is stated as Bland in marriage info, but was probably Wythe
county.BIRTH-SPOUSE-MARRIAGE-PARENTS: William T. Hearne, BRIEF HISTORY AND GENEALOGY
OF THE HEARNE FAMILY; 1627-1907; 1907, Examiner Printing Company, Independence,
Missouri, FHL Film 0553999, pg. 585; (microfilmed from copy in Library of
Congress).NOTES: Last names spelled various ways: "Herring", "Herron", "Hearne". 1.
Listed as "Sallie Herring" on son David Fleming Thompson's death record.
"F.M.Thompson", informant. 2. Listed as "Sarah (Sallie) Hearne" by Linda Long
in her information, also lists William Hearne as the father. This is supported
by the fact that oldest son is named William Hearne Thompson. 3. Listed as
"Sarah Hearne", HISTORY OF HEARNEBIRTH-CENSUS: James L. Douthat, 1860 WYTHE COUNTY, VA. CENSUS; 1860; 1986,
Mountain Press, Signal Mountain, TN; pp 49 family 1070 ;FHL, 975.5773 X2d, SLC;
BIRTH-SPOUSE: Letter from Myrl Thompson, Wasilla AK, to
Brian Cragun, Rochester MN; 1776-1960; Letter dtd 17 Nov 1994; pg 2; original
in poss of Brian Cragun. NOTES: Cites the 1880 Bland Census.
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