When Lydia Sidney Thompson was born in 1823, in Mercer, Virginia, United States, her father, Henry Gore II, was 34 and her mother, Jane C Thompson, was 24. She married Green Meador Swinney about 1842, in Mercer, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in West Virginia, United States in 1870 and Slab Fork District, Raleigh, West Virginia, United States in 1880. In 1880, at the age of 57, her occupation is listed as keeping house. She died on 25 October 1885, in Mercer, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Raleigh, West Virginia, United States.
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“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
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In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
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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