Thompson Family Album
A Selection of Photographs, Sketches, Maps and Charts
The following images of people and places in the history of the Thompsons and allied families are organized by the chapter number in which they would appear in book form. Images pertaining to Thomas Thompson and Nancy Waddill Carter are listed under "Chapter 1;" images pertaining to James Thompson and his descentants are listed under "Chapter 2;" etc.
Chapter 1: Thomas Thompson and Nancy Waddill Carter
Map of Prince Edward County, Virginia, showing approximate location of Thomas Thompson and Nancy Waddill Carter's house in 1789 (their neighbor, according to deed records, was William Lindsay, or "W. Lindsay" on map). The map also shows the location of the house in which Nancy Waddill Carter was born on June 15, 1749 ("Capt. Carter's") and Hampden-Sidney College. (0 kb)
Chapter 2: James Thompson and His Descendants
Robert Burke (1831-1892), husband of Cornelia J. Thompson (1836-1859), of Cadiz, Kentucky. (32 kb)
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Robert Cook Roach (1862-1950), general merchant of Clarksville, Tennessee. (18 kb)
Susie Beryl Thomas (1875-?), daughter of Henry Clay Thomas and Mattie Nave. (38 kb)
William Heyburn, president of Belnap Hardware Company, Louisville, Kentucky. (55 kb)
Franklin Ferguson Starks (1900-1977), chairman of the board of Starks Co., Louisville, Kentucky. (10 kb)
Mary Elizabeth Lockhart (1855-1933) and Elmina Eliza Lockhart (1850-1871), sisters, both of whom married Henry A. Landes (1844-1919). (90 kb)
James E. Jesup (1820-1889), commissioner of the Western Kentucky Asylum, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and husband of Mary Thompson (1838-1916). (26 kb)
James P. Thompson (1835-1922), tobacco merchant of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, who defied the "Night Riders." (25 kb)
Thomas Pendleton Major (1853-1917), of Clarksville, Tennessee. (15 kb)
Hiram Thompson's house, built in 1857, Chappell Hill, Texas. (73 kb)
Mary Steele Brown (1901-1988), opera singer and regular on "Don McNeill's Breakfast Club." (32 kb)
Henry A. Landes (1844-1919), mayor of Galveston, Texas. (49 kb)
Partial view of the east elevation of the Landes House, one of the "strangest of the brick palaces" of Galveston, Texas. (85 kb)
Joseph Edmund Wallis (1836-1907), member of Wallis, Landes & Company, Galveston, Texas. (43 kb)
Hiram Thompson (1809-1869), of Chappell Hill, Texas, in a sketch done in Cadiz, Kentucky, in 1835. (43 kb)
Alexander Baker Thompson (1832-1867), commission merchant of Chappell Hill, Texas, and Galveston, Texas. (102 kb)
James Breathitt, Sr. (1852-1934), prominent attorney of Hopkinsville, Kentucky and attorney general of Kentucky, 1916-1920. (32 kb)
James Breathitt, Jr. (1890-1934), lieutenant governor of Kentucky, 1928-1932, and the son of James Breathitt, Sr. and Olivia Thompson (1860-1949). (35 kb)
Hon. Edward Thompson "Ned" Breathitt (1924-), Governor of Kentucky, 1963-1967, and chairman of the board of trustees of the University of Kentucky. (103 kb)
Edwards Hall, Elkton, Kentucky. The home of Francis Henry Bristow (1840-1910) and Emma Thompson (1856-1942). National Register of Historic Places site. (35 kb)
Sarah Thompson Rothrock Thomas (1815-1853) shown holding her daughter Sarah Adaline Thomas Moore. (50 kb)
Thomas Oscar Moore (1842-1910) shown in the uniform of the Seventh Texas Infantry, in 1861 (24 kb), and in a photograph of the Moore family with wife Sarah and children Robert Hartwell Moore and Ida Kate Moore, in 1873, Galveston, Texas (28 kb). Sarah Thomas Moore (1850-1933). (44 kb)
Chapter 3: Carter Thompson and Nancy Morton
Captain John Morton (1721-1796), Prince Edward County, Virginia. Member of the Virginia Assembly in 1783; delegate to the First Virginia Convention at Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1774; soldier in the French and Indian War and Captain of the Second Company, Fourth Virginia Regiment, in the Revolutionary war; charter trustee in 1776 of Hampden-Sydney College, one of the country's oldest colleges and one of only two all-male colleges in the U.S.; father of Nancy Morton, who was the wife of Carter Thompson. (50 kb)
Morton Hall, Hampden-Sydney College, Prince Edward County, Virginia. Named in honor of Captain John Morton. (90 kb)
Entrance to Morton Hall, Hampden-Sydney College. (79 kb)
Chapter 6: Elizabeth Hill and Her Descendants
John Lyddall Street (1888-1969), banker and philanthopist of Cadiz, Kentucky. (56 kb)
Dan Grinter House, Cadiz, Kentucky. (30 kb)
Fitzgerald Hall (1889-1946), president of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway. (58 kb)
Thomas Grinter Street (1892-1946), architect of Chatanooga, Tennessee. (34 kb)
James B. Garnett (1845-1921), Commonwealth Attorney for Kentucky in 1880 and 1892. (36 kb)
Chapter 10: Hezekiah Morton Thompson and His Descendants
Felix Catha (1887-1982), leader of a group which established a museum at Camp Moore Confederate Cemetery, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, shown with wife Eunice Lambert Catha on the porch of the museum. (70 kb)
Chapter 12: John Morton Thompson and His Descendants
Stanley Guffy Thompson (1894-1959), city editor of the Louisville Times and the Philadelphia Bulletin. (30 kb)
Mary Morton Thompson (1822-1909), shown with husband James Wade Grubb and a son, Butler County, Kentucky. (82 kb)
Homer Carter Thompson (1894-1952), my grandfather. (40 kb)
Grave of John Morton Thompson (1802-1885) in the Thompson Cemetery, Hadley-Cohron Road, Warren County, Kentucky. (82 kb)
Graves of John Morton Thompson and Mary "Polly" Hopkins Cohron Thompson in the Thompson Cemetery, Hadley-Cohron Road, Warren County, Kentucky. (103 kb)
My children Lauren (47 kb) and Brian (49 kb) Thompson.
Chapter 14: Obediah Morton Thompson and His Descendants
Obediah Morton Thompson (1806-1872), of East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. (23 kb)
The Thompson House, East Feliciana Parish, the largest Victorian style house in Louisiana, built in the late 1800s by Robert Emerson Thompson. National Register of Historic Places site. (143 kb)
Springhill Plantation, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Home of Margaret "Marnie" Scott Evans and Edwin Kerwin Ross; the site of the filming of the motion picture, Sounder, in 1972. (48 kb)
Emerson Thompson "Curly" Sanders (1907-1987), member of the North Carolina Senate and 1942 Rose Bowl game official. (15 kb)
Ina Thompson Smitherman (1886-1946), author of The Louisiana Plantation Cookbook and numerous magazine articles. (24 kb)
James Emory Smitherman (1882-1967), pioneer oil man of Shreveport, Lousiana; chairman of Louisiana State University's board of supervisors; husband of Ina Thompson. (21 kb)
George Lea Gayden (1870-1954), pioneer Louisiana cattleman. (14 kb)
Gracie Gayden, of East Feliciana Parish. (76 kb)
Harry Perkins Gayden (1908-), first executive secretary of the American Brahman Breeder's Association. (26 kb)
Donald Derickson (1878-1962), head of the School of Civil Engineering at Tulane University and husband of Margaret Kirby Gayden (1887-1971). (20 kb)
William Hasting Harris, II (1926-1974), Baton Rouge businessman and diocesan chairman of the Louisiana Episcopal Laymen in 1962. (21 kb)
Robert Lee Tullis (1864-1955), dean of the Louisiana State University Law School and husband of Octavia Gayden (1881-1970). (23 kb)
Rupert Gayden Thompson, Martha Gayden Yancey, my mother and her friend Bo Myers at Lakeview Plantation, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, in 1996. (73 kb)
Lakeview Plantation, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Site of the filming of the motion picture, Alvarez Kelley. Birthplace of Hezekiah Burton Thompson, Jr.'s children. Home of Martha Gayden Yancey. National Register of Historic Places site. (101 kb)
John Burton Thompson (1911-1994), prolific paperback novelist of East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, and the covers from two of his books, Swamp Hoyden and Hitch-Hike Hussy. (23, 110, 86 kb)
Chapter 15: Samuel Carter Thompson and His Descendants
Wesley Chapel Methodist Church, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana. (91 kb)
Chapter 16: Benjamin Woodson Thompson and His Descendants
The Thompson House, Bagdad, Florida. National Register of Historic Places site. (37 kb)
The Creary House, Bagdad, Florida. National Register of Historic Places site. (41 kb)
Harry Wright Thompson (1891-1931), State's Attorney for First Judicial District of Florida and World War I pilot. (101 kb)
Sarah Morton Thompson (1867-1903), born in Bagdad, Florida, the daughter of Benjamin Woodson Thompson (1809-1876) and Olive Ann Thompson (1830-1904). (22 kb)
William Wirt Walker, Jr. (1865-1905), the husband of Sarah Morton Thompson, shown with children Anna Keel Walker, Thompson Wirt Walker, and Olive Morton Walker. (85 kb)
Chapter 17: James Anderson Thompson
Grave of James Anderson Thompson (1811-1853) in the Darlington United Methodist Church cemetery, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana. (52 kb)
