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Name: Charles Thompson
Alias:
Place of Birth: Harrison KY
Year of Birth: 1838
Occupation: Farmer
Eyes: Black Hair: Black Complexion: Black
Height in Feet: 5 Inches: 11
Enlistment Date: June 2, 1864
Enlistment Place: Covington
Enlistment State: KY
Document: View
Congressional District: 6th
Company: G
Regiment(s): 100th Regt USCI
Mustered Where: Covington, Kentucky
Mustered Out Date:
Rank at Muster Out:
Notes:
Charles Thompson enlisted as a private in June 1864 and became ill shortly after the company arrived in Nashville, Tennessee, later that month. He died in July of typhoid fever. The CMSR includes the Slave Compensation Claim application and Certificate of Award for his enslaver, William Thompson.
Died in war? Yes
Military Death Date: July 15, 1864
Military Death Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Military Cause of Death: Typhoid fever
Death Date: July 15, 1864
Cause of Death: Typhoid fever
Death Certificate
No pension card found
Widow Pension Card: Pension Card
Widow Application Date: February 23, 1867 Application No.: 142643
Certificate No.: 106126
Pension Card Link: View Application Date: June 2, 1869 Application No.: 175916 Certificate No.: 132593
Pension File: Pension File
Pensioners: Rutha A. Thompson
Pensioner County: Harrison Pensioner State: KY
Number of Pages:36
Pension Notes:
Rutha A. Thompson lived in Harrison County, Kentucky. She and Charles Thompson had one child: Charles Thompson Jr. (born 1864). Charles Thompson died of typhoid fever in Nashville, Tennessee, in July of 1864. Ruth remarried to Robert Taylor, and Sarah Berry became the guardian of Charles Jr. There are no depositions in this pension file.
No Freedman’s Bank information found
No Freedmen’s Bureau Documents found
Mother First Name: Mother Maiden Name:
Father First Name: Father Last Name:
Siblings:
Wife #1 First Name: Rutha Ann Maiden Name: Berry or Dills
Wife #2 First Name: Maiden Name:
Wife #3 First Name: Maiden Name:
Children: Charles Thompson 1864
Family Notes:
Rutha Thompson went by the maiden name of Berry and in other records Dills. She married a second time in 1869 to Robert Taylor and had a son by him, Richard, born about 1870.
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1870 Census information not found
1880 Census Link: View
1880 Profession: none
1880 Live with/near former enslaver? No
1880 Ability to Read? Unknown Ability to Write? Unknown
1880 Census Notes:
In the 1880 census, Rutha is living in Leesburg, Harrison Co, Ky with her 2nd husband Robert Taylor and her two sons, Charles and Richard.
1890 Census information not found
1900 Census information not found
1910 Census information not found
1920 Census information not found
Name: William Thompson
Location: Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky
Previous Enslaver:
Enslaver Notes:
1850 Census Link: View
1850 Slave Schedule Link: View
1850 Number of Enslaved: 22
1860 Census Link: View
1860 Real Estate Value: $6000
1860 Personal Estate Value: $3500
1860 Slave Schedule Link: View
1860 Number of Enslaved: 7
1870 Census Link: View
1870 Real Estate Value: $19,500 1870 Personal Estate Value: $6,650
Compensation Applied? Yes Compensation Received? Yes
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