When Andrew Jackson Thompson was born on 5 October 1832, in Lawrence, Kentucky, United States, his father, Johnson H Thompson, was 25 and his mother, Martha Packwood, was 23. He married Mary Jane Spencer on 11 September 1850, in Lawrence, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 5, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Blaine, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1910. He died on 19 September 1915, in Lawrence, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Busseyville, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name T(h)om(me) (see Thom ) + -son ‘son of Tom’. Thomson is usually the Scottish form, that with the intrusive -p- being English. Both forms are common in Ireland. The surname Thompson is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Thomsen and of its Swedish cognate Thomsson. Compare Thomson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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