. Our Thompson family in Maine, New Hampshire and the West. o Mr. Ring was Ben-jamin, b. 1814, and d. of fever in Ohio in the winter of1815. In 1815, as soon as her affairs could be adjusted afterthe loss of her husband, she started with her infant sonin her arms, in company with some iriends who were em-igrating to Ohio. They came in wagons to the OhioRiver, and thence down the River on flat boats andlanded on the Frandon Farm below New Richmond, she was taken to the neighborhood now known asLindale, O., where she was kindly received into the homeof her cousin, Deacon Andrew Coombs.
. Our Thompson family in Maine, New Hampshire and the West. o Mr. Ring was Ben-jamin, b. 1814, and d. of fever in Ohio in the winter of1815. In 1815, as soon as her affairs could be adjusted afterthe loss of her husband, she started with her infant sonin her arms, in company with some iriends who were em-igrating to Ohio. They came in wagons to the OhioRiver, and thence down the River on flat boats andlanded on the Frandon Farm below New Richmond, she was taken to the neighborhood now known asLindale, O., where she was kindly received into the homeof her cousin, Deacon Andrew Coombs. In that vicinityshe taught her first school in the West. There, too, shewas laid low by the malignant fever which prevailed atthe time in that new country. Her babe was also smit-ten. Willie she was still prostrate the dead body of herBennie, beautiful even in death, was brought to her bed-side. On her return to health she went to teach in Ken-tucky, nearly opposite Point Pleasant, Ohio. She boardedin the family of Esquire James Kennedy, a Scotch gentle-. THOMPSON GENExVLOGY. 213 man of wealth, culture and intelligence. While there shebecame acquainted with her second husband, Rev. DanielParker, a talented Universalist minister, who was at Point Pleasant, Ohio, Newport, Ky., wherehe lived, and at Cincinnati, O. They were married , 1816. He was of the sixth generation of his Parkerline, and was b. Newburyport, Mass., Aug. 7, 1781; Hygiene, Clermont County, 0., March 22, 1861(79y.). When he was six years old he came with hisparents to western Pennsylvania, and lived there severalyears. The family then moved to southeastern Ohio,seven miles north of Pomeroy. During the early years of his ministry he rode onhorseback through tne wilderness of southern Ohio andnorthern Kentucky. He estnblislied the first Restora-tionist Church in Cincinnati, O. A good history of the Parker family will be found inthe appendix to this book, ;ind more records of this nobl
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