These articles are the complete text of the publication, Pioneers of Trigg County, Kentucky, as Seen Through the Biographical and Genealogical Articles of Cyrus Thompson in the Kentucky Telephone and the Cadiz Record, 1889-1899, which I edited in 1996.

Cyrus Thompson was the son of James Thompson and Sarah Steele Baker, who married in Prince Edward County, Virginia, in 1797. In about 1805 James and his family migrated to Logan County, Kentucky; in 1814, according to Perrin's History of Trigg County, Kentucky, James moved to Cadiz and became one of the town's first settlers and its first hotel keeper. Cyrus, the youngest of James and Sarah's children, was born June 20, 1819, and was fond of referring to himself as the "first white child" born in Cadiz.

Following a long career as a commission merchant in New Orleans and in Galveston, Texas, Cyrus moved to Creedmoor, Texas, where his articles about Trigg County pioneers were written. It is not possible to determine how many articles he wrote, as there exist virtually no complete issues of the two Cadiz newspapers for the years prior to 1905.

The articles on this page were found in the John Mabry Record Book, which contains hundreds of news stories, birth and marriage announcements, and obituaries from late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century copies of the Kentucky Telephone and its successor, the Cadiz Record. The John Mabry Record Book is available at the Division of Special Collections and Archives, Margaret I. King Library, University of Kentucky.

Perhaps the remaining, "lost" articles of Cyrus Thompson will be found someday.