Company & Regiment Unknown
Researched & Compiled by Linda Cunningham Fluharty
1850 Marshall County Census
THOMPSON (71/73 - Moundsville)
John...$30,000(?)...54-M...PA
Sarah...47-F...PA
Walker...Merchant...$1000...26-M...OH
Elizabeth...23-F...OH
Charles...Merchant...21-M...OH
Westun [Western?]...Student...16-M...OH
Emily...12-F...VA
Irwin...5-M...VA
Baker, Emily...15-F...OHWESTERN TALBOT THOMPSON, Company & Regiment Unknown, died during the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862. He was buried at the battle site in Tennessee, but a Cenotaph memorializes him at the Thompson Cemetery in Dilles Bottom, Belmont County, Ohio.
Born on Dec. 30, 1834 to John Thompson and Sarah Walker, he was living with his family in Marshall County at the time of the 1850 census. Named in 1850 were Walker, 26, Merchant; Elizabeth, 23; Charles, 21, Merchant; Western, 16, Student; Emily, 12; Irwin, 5. – Western was not with the family in the 1860 census of Marshall County, at which time children still at home were Charles, Emma and George I. (Irwin from 1850). Walker Thompson was married and lived nearby with his wife and two young children. The death date of Walker Thompson is not confirmed. George Irwin Thompson, born in 1845, died Apr. 15, 1864, per death notice in the Wheeling Intelligencer, dated 18 Apr 1864. – The father, John Thompson, born in 1796, had a sister, Sarah “Sallie” Thompson, who became the wife of Colonel Jonathan Lockwood in 1835; she died in 1844. – Western’s brother, Major John A. Thompson, fought for the north during the Civil War and was murdered while still in service in 1867. - The progenitor of this Thompson family acquired extensive property in Dilles Bottom, Ohio, as well as across the Ohio River in West Virginia.