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WELCOME TO A THOMPSON CHRONICLE. The links listed below are for PDF files that require Adobe Acrobat reader. Most browsers already have it installed, but you can download it here. These chapters have been taken from the first two parts of my three-part book (published in 1996) and updated wherever possible. Part three contains current family updates and probably won't be published here. At least not right away. You are welcome to print out and read as much or as little of it as you choose. You are welcome to download photographs and use them at your own website. And, you are free to give printed copies to others. Nevertheless, the entire contents of this book are copyright 1996-2008, and I ask that you do not attempt to profit from it. Caveat: Occasionally, a link fails to launch Acrobat Reader on the first try. I can't explain why this happens, but I suggest this: If you have the current version of Acrobat Reader installed (available through above link to Adobe), and if you try the link a second time to no avail, feel free to right-click on the link and download the "target" to your computer. Copyright © 1996-2008 Sue Nickum and Kathleen Arno First Edition: September, 1996 Second Edition: August, 2000

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Table of Contents
Dedication Foreword Acknowledgments PART I: THE MEMOIRS 1 Introduction to Part 1 2 Thompson 3 Hendrix 4 The Bee Rock Place 5 Lincoln School District 6 The Loss of Annie 7 Heading North 8 Oregon 9 Life in Cornelius 10 The Difficult Nineties 11 The Ongoing Search for Work 12 Up and Down the West Coast 13 Margie Lucile Reynolds 14 Lora's and Della's families 15 Life and Times of W. C. Thompson 16 Life in the Great Northwest 17 A Light Extinguished 18 The Family and Sunnyvale 19 "Mommie's" Passing 20 Epilog	PART II: LETTERS, PAPERS, AND DOCUMENTS Introduction to Part 2 Late 17th Century - The Origins of the Pedigo Family 1780 - The Battle of Kings Mountain 1827 - A Tennessee Country School 1868 - A Confederate Soldier's Letter 1860s & 1870s - Grandpa's Letter, Written 100 Years Later 1872 & 1873 - San Jose State Normal days. Includes     reminiscences by Charles E. Markham, a Hendrix     family neighbor and friend, reminiscences and valedictory     address by Mary Hendrix. Dry reading, but historical. 1894 - Tributes to a Patriarch.     Garfield (Washington) Enterprise front page stories.     February, Mary Hendrix Thompson Honors         Her Grandfather, and     September, Edward Pedigo's front page Obituary 1899 - Another Letter to Barrett 1911 - Photo: W. S. Reynolds Builder 1943 - Storm in the Gulf of Alaska Our Reynolds roots, briefly     The Rowland, Boyles and Reynolds families The Boyles - Blaisdell Letters (long file) "Lonesome Charley" Reynolds
NEW March 2003! MONONA LETTERS! Monona, Iowa gossip -- 1877-1899 Monona Letters The Boyles Blaisdell letters with added family pictures as well as research and information on the many Monona families mentioned in the girls' gossip. Work in progress. This update April 13, 2003. New Thompson Genealogy Book A Thompson-Bacon Family History by Norman H. Atkins, descendant of Pleasant Thompson. A wealth of ancestral information for both sides of the family, Thompsons and Bacons.