. A twentieth century history of Hardin County, Ohio : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and principal interests, . d Wyandotcounties, and at his death left to each of his children eighty acres. Frank Thompson, the second born of Davids children was thefather of Eddie G. He was born in Wyandot county, Ohio, January1, 1856, and died December 8, 1895. He married Miss Harriet James,who was born in Noble county, Ohio, in 1855, and they became theparents of three children: Flora E., Eddie G. and Omer J. Eddie G. Thompson was born November 9, 1880, in the townshipin which he


. A twentieth century history of Hardin County, Ohio : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and principal interests, . d Wyandotcounties, and at his death left to each of his children eighty acres. Frank Thompson, the second born of Davids children was thefather of Eddie G. He was born in Wyandot county, Ohio, January1, 1856, and died December 8, 1895. He married Miss Harriet James,who was born in Noble county, Ohio, in 1855, and they became theparents of three children: Flora E., Eddie G. and Omer J. Eddie G. Thompson was born November 9, 1880, in the townshipin which he now lives, and where he is regarded as one of the practicalfarmers of his section of the country. He owns and operates eightyacres of choice land, and he is a Republican in politics. On April 2, 1902, Mr. Thompson married Miss Birtie Hamilton,who was born in Goshen township, Hardin county, September 12, 1886,a daughter of James and Annie Hamilton, and they have three children :Mabel M., James F. and Ray. Benton K. Jones, M. D., of Kenton, Ohio, was born in Washingtontownship, in the county in which he lives, March 2, 1858, and on his. HISTORY OF HARDIN COUNTY 771 paternal side is of Welsh descent. His grandfather, John Jones, a nativeof New Jersey, came to Ohio in the early history of this state andsettled in Knox county, where he made his home until 1850. when hemoved to Hardin county. Here he spent the closing years of his life,and died at about the age of seventy. The Doctors great-grandmotherJones was before her marriage a Miss Wolf, she being a cousin of GeneralWolf, of historic fame. John Morgan Jones, the Doctors father, wasborn in Knox county. Ohio, in 1832, and in 1850 came with his fathersfamily to Hardin county. Here he met and married Miss ElizabethM. Gillen, who was bora in New Jersey in 1836 and who had conic withher parents from that state to Hardin county. Ohio, the same year theJones family took up their residence in this county. Her fatherreturned to New Jers


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