Thanks for the congrats Mary and Dusevoir. I saw a picture of my great grandfather for the first time. That was powerful.
It is a picture from 1926/27 and it contained many of the people I've only just found out about. One of them appears to almost crack a smile, but for the most part it looks like they were attending a "stern-off" to see who could look meanest.
My great grandfather looks pretty mean, but by far his uncle James Thompson takes the cake. He actually looks like the eagle from the muppet show.
From this picture, I do have a bunch of other surnames with relatives for those people with family finder results. Clifford, Tyler, Swindell, McCann, Cunningham, Sturm and Fennimore. I can account for everyone except Cunningham and Swindell, not sure where they came from.
Dusevoir, what is your last known Thompson in Indiana name and date. My Thompsons are farther north around Monroe, Anderson and Alexandria, but I'm stuck effectively at the 1860 census with Levi born 1834 (Indexed as Lean Thampson by ancestry.com and familysearch.org). I read in an obituary I ordered that Levi Thompson and Mrs (not real helpful) were early residents of Monroe...so they moved in from somewhere. For all I know it could have been southern Indiana.
mike