My family is all from Kentucky, but none are named Joseph. A little family background, my father is Arthur Thompson, one of seven brothers and one sister. He was in Pattons 2nd Army, tank division in WWII and 4 of his brothers all served in different branches, Him and his younger brother lied about their ages to join. The foot marker on his grave is one year different than his headstone, the foot marker being provided by the army. His brother Ernest was killed at Iwo Jima,and is included on the monument in Arlington,Virginia. Their father, John Wesley Thompson, born in 1883, we're not sure where,and died in 1937. His father,my great grandfather, was James A. Thompson,born in 1859 in Barren county,Ky. and died in Brownsville,Ky.,not sure what year. His father,my great,great grandfather, was William C. Thompson, we have absolutly no information on him at all except he might have been from Barron County,Ky., around Glasgow we think, we need to go to the library there to follow that lead. That is just about all we know so far, with most everyone deceased it's hard to remember the details, nothing was really written back then, my father couldn't read or write so I'm sure he wasn't the only one. He eventually learned enough to get him through life but that was something he always regretted, and it never held him back. The boys were so young when their mother died and so many of them you can imagine how wild they were as children with their dad out working. After their military times they all settled down to take care of family and that always came first, after the Lord of course, they were very spiritual. I'm very proud of my father and his family and of their values. My fathers immediate family was his brothers Edgar,born 1914-died 2000, Noah,born 1910-died 1982, Harry,born 1912,died 1988, William Almond,born 1918-died 1962, James Edward,born 1921-died 1985, Ernest,born 1924-died Iwo Jima 1945, and their sister, Annis,born 1908-died 1982. That is all the info we have on them and not sure if it will correspond with any one else,but we'll see.
Bev