Thompson, John E.

Personal Information
Last Name	Thompson
First Name	John
Middle Name	E.
Maiden Name
Death Date	3/2/1935
Birth Date	8/17/1845
Obituary Source	Mooresville Times, March 7, 1935
Source Information	Cemetery index/Morgan Co. Civil War Veterans
Cemetery	Mooresville Cemetery

Family Information
Spouse	Sarah J. Cross (died 1926)
Survived By	Daughter, Zora Willis; brothers, J. W. Thompson of Washington, D. C., A. W. of Winchester, Ind., J. F. of North Madison, and Ed M. of Calif.; 3 sisters, Alice Miller, Emma Deacon, and Fannie Lisher.
Other	Age 89. Died of kidney and bladder complications. Funeral at Friends Church. Parents: Elias P. and Loraina Vansyock (one of the first white children born in Shelby County.) Veteran of the Civil War: Co. E, 146 Ind.; enlisted in 1865, when he was 19 years old, at Greensburg. "Encamped in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, near Winchester. Although he saw no service, he was trained in camp and ready to go to war when the Civil struggle ended. It was while he lived at Shelbyville before his enlistment that Abraham Lincoln, in 1861, passed through Indiana, and Mr. Thompson was privileged to see him. Mr. Thompson came to Mooresville in 1916 and engaged in farming. He lives on West Main Street." (Source: Mooresville Times, Sept. 14, 1933; article on Civil War veterans.)
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