This residence is just across the street from the residence of Wm J. Cook No 230 S. Keeler St Tel 270.   Mrs Wendt said that Mr & Mrs W.J. Cook left at 9 AM yesterday for Ottawa Kan on a visit to their daughter, Mrs James Lawson who lives on a farm out from Ottawa. She thought Mrs Cook was 78 yrs old & said her name was Thompson & that her father was a Civil War soldier & was killed in battle & they never found his grave. She said Mrs David Taggart, who had lived 3 houses south of here, but died 2 mos ago, & her husband then went to live with their son Frank Taggart at or near Eureka Kan SE of here. Mrs Taggart was a cousin of Mrs Cook & when Mrs Cook's parents died, she went to live with Mrs Taggart's parents.

Mrs Wendt said a brother of Mrs Cook lives at Morse, this Co in town where he has a team & works on the road or wherever he can get anything to do. Thought his name was Joseph (it is Andrew M.) Thompson & says he is married but has no children. Don't think Mrs Cook has any sisters. Says Mrs Lawson is their only child, but they have an adopted son Eugene Cook a good Christian who lives at Beaver Falls Pa. Mrs Lawson has 3 children.

Says Mrs Cook's people came from Ohio. She thinks Andrew Thompson living in this Co SE of here is a brother of Mrs Cook, living at Morse or Eureka or Stanley all little towns. Aside from Frank, Mrs Taggart had one daughter who died not long ago, named Mrs Cantrell? leaving 3 children viz Hazel, Audrey & Lucile, all girls. Hazel is married & lives in Kansas City.   She said Mrs. Cook's name is Mattie.

(Transcribing at Paola Ks Com Hotel office writing table Nov 10, 1922 7:44 AM)                                            In walking out to Mrs Cook's, I saw on my left a very large red brick building with spacious grounds about it which later Russell Boyle told me was the State Deaf & Dumb Institute.

[note;   The school is still (2001)beautiful and in use.  Martha Annette Thompson worked at the Institute for the deaf as a nurse.  John McKee Thompson worked as a fireman in Olathe, he would be present during fire drill at the school.  Jessie 'Oppie' Addams worked at the school with her sisters Dot and Rose.  John married Oppie.]

Johnson Co, KS  Nov 9, 1922:     I then called Tel 64 & Russell Boyle came & I engaged him to drive me out to Morse & we started at 2 PM & found his wife well up in years in their little cottage home who told us her husband Andrew M. Thompson was 2 1/2 miles out in the country doing some work for Mr Lowman, the banker. We drove out & found him & another man who had just driven in to a new tenement house opposite the residence with a load of wood.

At Sam Lowman`s Oxford Tp, Johnson Co Kan Nov 9, 1922 2:55 PM  Questioning Mr Thompson about his ancestors, he could only go back to his grandfather, Joseph Thompson who by reason of his dislike & opposition to slavery came across from Kentucky to Adams Co Ohio & located near to Marble Furnace near Tranquillity P.O. His wife was a Milligan & he gave me the name of certain of his children as near in the order of their ages as he could as follows:

1. John Thompson was in Civil War & died of disease the day before the battle of Shiloh & his coffin was said to have been made from the floor of Shiloh Church.

2. William, went in the Civil War & was never heard of. He had prior to the war married a Kentucky wife & had 4 or 5 children.

3. Robert lived in Coultersville, Ills & died there of cholera about 1849 & thinks he was unmarried.

4. Joseph, came to Kansas & died at a son's in Texas

5. David, went to California & left a family there.

6. Mary married 1^st James Delano & 2^d Wm Hancock

7. Andrew, died in Johnson Co Kansas

John the oldest was his father & had but two children:

1. Martha, born about 1843 married Wm J. Cook

2. Andrew Milligan Thompson, my informant of the afternoon born near Marble Furnace, Adams Co O Apr 13, 1849 & who on Dec 28, 1880 was married to Lillus Murphy who was born Feby 2, 1849, the daughter of Thomas C. Murphy & his wife Rachel Suiter & says they have never had any children. He says he came here from Adams Co Ohio in 1876 & have lived in Morse since March 1921. Andrew was a tall man & looked wonderfully like Cousin Andrew Jackson Thompson of Kansas City, MO.

Left Morse for Belton, MO Interview with Robert Finney Thompson and Maria Elizabeth HissongAt residence of Robert Finney Thompson back of the RR Sta Belton, Missouri Nov 9, 1922 5 PM

Arriving here, I met Robert's wife & daughter who were coming from the house adjoining & they took me inside & called Robert's mother, a fine patriarchal motherly woman in a black bonnet rather fleshy, but quick & active for one in her 83^d yr but one to whom your heart warms instantly by reason of her cheerful smile, strong features & her innate spirit of helpfulness. She at first was a little uncertain but later said she was sure that her husband's grandfather was:

John Thompson, who she said lived at or near Lexington Ky & married a Moore, a Scotch lady, who owned much land where the city of Paris, France now is (did she or her family name Paris KY?) & should have had from it Many millions which neither she or her heirs ever received. She did not know of any of his children but

Joseph Thompson who moved from about Lexington Ky to Adams Co Ohio. He was a strong abolitionist & his house & that of his son Joseph, her husband, were in active use & occupancy as stations on the "Underground Railroad" during the pre war period. He married Mary Milligan a NY lady who went to Penna & from there to Ohio where he married her. He died in 1849 of the cholera at Coultersville Ills & is buried there in the City Cem along with a cousin of his named Milligan, who died at the same time & an old sandstone bearing date of 1849 marks their graves. His widow died in Olathe Kan in 1865 "the last year of the war" she said & is buried in the Olathe Cem & has a marker, she being, Robert says, the second person buried in that cem. Mrs T. says she would have been 80 yrs old & that she & her husband were about the same age. His cousin Milligan buried him Mrs T. said & then died himself of the cholera the next day. Their children were: in order of their ages as Mrs T. remembers:

1. John Thompson, the oldest

2. Joseph McNeil Thompson

3. Andrew Milligan Thompson

4. Robert Thompson

6. Mary Thompson

7. James Thompson

5. William Thompson

8. David Thompson

Mrs T. thinks either Agnes Wilson, Martha Cook or Dave Taggart would have the bible record of the elder Joseph Thompson, her father-in-law. She & her son then gives following about his descendants:

John died in the Civil War. He married Miss Sarah Woods of Ohio & had but two children:                 Martha, married Wm J. Cook                                                                                                                Andrew Milligan who I had just seen.                                                                                                    Joseph McNiel Thompson born in Ohio & married June 21, 1858 to Maria Elizabeth Hissong, daughter of Jacob Hissong & his wife Matilda Lindsay of Scotch descent, who was born near Mercersburg, in Franklin Co Pa Sept 15, 1840 & who in appearance size & manner reminded me much of Aunt Matilda. Joseph McNiel Thompson died 22 or 23 yrs ago at the insane asylum in Texas (Moran?). He was 20 yrs older than his wife she said. Either David E. Thompson, Lena Wendt or Andrew M. Thompson told me he was an old bachelor when he married a young girl in her teens. Their children were:

1. Calvin Todd Thompson, Born June 15, 1861 & is living at 4105 McGie St Kansas City Mo is married & has    4 children

2. David Steel Thompson born Sept 17, (was 4 weeks old the day of the battle of Westport with Price). he is dead. He married Miss Lillie McKee of Olathe Ks & she is living at Bonner Springs Kan with her daughter & 4 sons see.

3. Robert Finney Thompson born Feby 28, 1866 at Coultersville Ills & married Jany 10, 1894 at St Louis Mo to Josephine Etienne, daughter of Baptiste Etienne & his wife Josephine Gobel who was born in Coultersville Ills Aug 1, 1870 & came here from Coultersville Ills.