Robert Lyle Thompson

CLARK, THOMPSON

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/14/2004 at 00:10:25

R. L., Jefferson twp., farmer, Sec. 31; P.O. Winterset; born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1843; his parents moved to Iowa when he was two years of age and located in Jackson county; he came to this county in the spring of 1867; Mr. T. was in the army in company A, Ninth Iowa infantry; enlisted September 22, 1862, and served two years and ten months, and was mustered out July 18, 1865; he was in the following battles: Arkansas Post, the siege of Vicksburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold, Tennessee, Dallas, Georgia, and several others; he married Miss Henrietta Clark, a native of Guernsey county, Ohio; they have four children living: George C., Sarah, Elizabeth and Georgiana L.; Mr. T. owns a farm of 120 acres.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 656