James Thompson
James Thompson was born in Ireland in 1787. In 1791 he was brought by his parents to the United States and located in Pennsylvania. Here in 1810 he married Ellen Briggs. By this union they had four children, viz., Freeborn, James, John, and Wesley. In 1820 his wife died, and in 1822 he was married to Elizabeth Jeffries, a daughter of Richard and Nancy (Davis) Jeffries, who were natives of England and Scotland, and came to the United States and located in Chester County, Pa. In 1825 Mr. Tliompson and family, together with his father, John Thompson, emigrated to Shelby County and located in Washington Township, where he bought eighty acres of land of one of the Mellingers; also entered eighty acres more, and located with his family in the woods, and raised a family of five children by his second marriage, viz., Huldah, Eleonor, Davis J., Thomas, and Arza B. Of these five, Huldah married William Gearhart (she died in 1875); Eleonor married Samuel Tabler; Davis J. now resides on part of the home place; Thomas resides in Dakota; Arza B. died in the army. Mr. Thompson died in 1851; his wife died in 1880.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883