. Our Thompson family in Maine, New Hampshire and the West. -ness when he speaks of a friend. I loved him, as all didwho knew him well, for to know him well was to lovehim more. My own gentle mother taught me to lovehim, for she knew him well. And his illustrations oftne lessons taught me intensified my love. He and shewere sheltered under the same roof, warmed at thesame hearthstone, fed the same food, clothed by thesame hands, educated in the same log schoolhouse andstudied at home by the light of the same tallow can-dle. Their notions of the present life, and their hopesof the future life,
. Our Thompson family in Maine, New Hampshire and the West. -ness when he speaks of a friend. I loved him, as all didwho knew him well, for to know him well was to lovehim more. My own gentle mother taught me to lovehim, for she knew him well. And his illustrations oftne lessons taught me intensified my love. He and shewere sheltered under the same roof, warmed at thesame hearthstone, fed the same food, clothed by thesame hands, educated in the same log schoolhouse andstudied at home by the light of the same tallow can-dle. Their notions of the present life, and their hopesof the future life, were the same, and their strength ofbody the same, as they succumbed to death at thesame time. Amos Thompson was born April 26, 1807, and diedApril 13, 1901. His parents came to St. Clair County in1816. His mother protested against the journey, andremarked, I am going to my grave, and her prophecywas fulfilled, as she and her husband died within twodays of each other, in less than three months aftertheir arrival in Illinois. After the death of his parents. Amos Thompson. THOMPSON GENEALOGY. 95 he lived with a neighbor one year, and when he wasten years old, he made his home until he reached hismajority, with John Stuntz of Turkey Hill. On May15, 1S31, he married Irene Moore Charles of Twelve-Mile Prairie and went to farming in High Prairie. Thewife died in 1852. His living children are Charles Portland, Ore., Alonzo of Fullerton, Neb., Mrs. The-ophilus Harrison of Colorado Springs, Col., and Cyrusof Belleville. He was three times elected to the IllinoisLegislature, the first time in 1842, and succeeded him-self in 1844 and was elected again in 1866. In searchof a better climate, he moved to Oregon some five yearsago, but he always called Illinois his home. He still had hopes, his long vexations past,Here to return and die at home at last. After a very long life of spotless conduct, that comesonly from a heart by nature born of purest impulses,of perfect integrity, commandi
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