History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 682. [Harrison County] [Cynthiana City and Precinct] T. L. THOMPSON, farmer, P. O. Cynthiana, was born in Harrison County, Ky., May 8, 1850, son of Robert and Emily (Linsey) Thompson, he, born in Harrison County, Sept. 9, 1802, and now in his eightieth year; she, also a native of Harrison County; they had ten children. After receiving in the schools of his native county his education, Mr. Thompson began farming, which occupation he has followed ever since, owning a farm of seventy-two acres of choice land. Oct. 5, 1876, in Cynthiana, he married Miss Lura Violett, born in Texas, May 12, 1855, daughter of George Violett, who was born in Kentucky, and died in 1869, aged thirty-eight years; her mother, also born in Kentucky, died in August, 1881, aged forty-four years. One child, Violett, born Sept. 17, 1879, has blessed the household of Mr. Thompson. Mrs. Thompson is a member of the Episcopal Church, and Mr. Thompson is a Democrat. The father of Mrs. Thompson is a Mason, and in his younger days was a very active member of the honorable fraternity. Thompson Linsey Violett = TX http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/harrison/thompson.tl.txt