. Our Thompson family in Maine, New Hampshire and the West. eturn;Scenes if in stupor I I feel, again they burn. —Burns. Feeling that some recollections of my early days,and how the families of Abel Thompson and CalebBarker moved to this western country from what thenwas called the District of Maine, will be helpful andfully believing that such information would be appre-ciated and valued by those who follow us on the never-ending stream of life, I jot down the following: In the spring of 1815 my father was well situatedin Maine, with no debts against him, and in possessionof a we
. Our Thompson family in Maine, New Hampshire and the West. eturn;Scenes if in stupor I I feel, again they burn. —Burns. Feeling that some recollections of my early days,and how the families of Abel Thompson and CalebBarker moved to this western country from what thenwas called the District of Maine, will be helpful andfully believing that such information would be appre-ciated and valued by those who follow us on the never-ending stream of life, I jot down the following: In the spring of 1815 my father was well situatedin Maine, with no debts against him, and in possessionof a well-stocked farm and a water saw-mill, and ap-parently lacking nothing but a contented mind, butthat is everything in life. He had been reading of thestate of Ohio, and some of his neighbors had movedthere, and to satisfy himself he made the trip started early in the spring of 1815, having pre-viously placed his farm and mill in the hands of hisson-in-law, James Grover. He went with a horse andcarriage, and in passing through the Allegheny Moun-. The Home of Amos Thompson at Belleville, 111. THOMPSON GENEALOGY. 103 tains, the Indians stole his horse, which he never re-covered from them, and from the place where thehorse was stolen he made the balance of the distanceto Ohio afoot. He returned from Ohio in the fall of1815 well pleased with the country, and immediatelyset to work preparing to move. A few weeks after father left home, the saw-mill wasburned up with considerable lumber adjoining the mill,which was a great loss to him. He never again re-built the mill, but rapidly went to work selling hisstock and farm and preparing to move. Mother wasvery much opposed to leaving her friends and home inMaine, and often have I heard her expressions thatshe was going to her grave. But father was deter-mined, as he said, to bring his children into a countrywhere they would not have to labor as hard as he hadworked for a living. Could he have pushed the veilaside which hid the
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