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According to his obituary, Thompson had for some time been residing with his son John W. Thompson. The obituary later lists his surviving children, including Benjamin H. Thompson and Ida E. Thompson \"who lived with their mother.\" This suggests that, for one reason or another, Frank Thompson was not living in the same residence as Martha Thompson, his children's mother.","Other family members documented in this collection include Elizabeth Frances Sharpes Thompson (1872-1958) who was married to John William Thompson (1874-1932), Benjamin F. Thompson's eldest son; and Mary A. Thompson (1903-1997), the daughter of John W. and Elizabeth Sharpes Thompson.","These materials descended in the Benjamin F. Thompson (1849-1913) family of Rockingham County, Virginia.","The collection was received in no particular order. As a result, the archivist imposed an arrangement based on material type and date.","Mary A. Thompson Papers, 1882-1974, SC 0152, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.","The Thompson Family Papers, 1869-1944, document the lives of Benjamin F. Thompson and his family. The collection includes correspondence between Thompson and his future-wife Martha E. Liskey Thompson, diaries, a weather journal, financial and legal documents, genealogical notes, and family photographs.","Series 1: Correspondence, 1869-1873, 1944, is comprised primarily of approximately 17 letters between Benjamin F. Thompson and Martha E. Liskey Thompson, written during their courtship. The content is generally newsy in nature and includes community and family gossip. The letters are also sentimental, conveying feelings of longing to be in the physical presence of one another. Miscellaneous letters, from persons with an unknown relationship to the Thompson family, are also included. The letters are arranged by recipient.","Series 2: Personal Papers, 1886-1902, 1943, includes miscellaneous papers of the Thompson family primarily created by Benjamin F. Thompson. Papers include a listing of household accounts, a bargain agreement between Benjamin F. Thompson and Daniel Liskey for one hog and one piece of land adjoining the Mt. Vernon school house lot, and two diaries and one weather journal written by Benjamin F. Thompson. Thompson's diaries include brief daily entries in which he mentions visiting with neighbors, travel and work duties, and weather happenings. Of particular interest is a copy of an April 10, 1888 article of agreement between the Board of Trustees of Central School District of Rockingham County and Benjamin F. Thompson, et. al.. In this agreement the Board permits Thompson, Noah, L. Spitzer, and J. P. Brown to use school house number 10 (Dillard or Mt. Vernon) for preaching, Sunday school, and singing during the summer of 1888. 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Each series is organized\n         chronologically.","The Thompson Family papers include the correspondence,\n         manuscripts, and financial papers of John P. Thompson, Sr.\n         (dates unknown), a Confederate officer and Democratic\n         politician, his wife Neilia Cave Thompson (dates unknown),\n         their son John P. Thompson, Jr. (1967-1945), and his wife\n         Florence Kemper Thompson (1859-1944), daughter of Confederate\n         general and Virginia governor James Lawson Kemper.","The correspondence series, dating from 1862 to 1918,\n         consists of personal and financial correspondence. John P.\n         Thompson, Sr., a native of Owensboro, Kentucky, joined the\n         Confederate army in 1861 and was commissioned a Captain\n         commanding Company G, 1st Kentucky Cavalry. He went with his\n         regiment to Manassas Junction, Virginia to join Confederate\n         forces there under Joseph E. Johnston. When Union troops under\n         Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant seized Paducah, Kentucky,\n         to counter a Confederate thrust into the then-neutral Blue\n         Grass state, Thompson and his company petitioned Confederate\n         president Jefferson Davis to let them return to defend their\n         native state. Davis refused their petition, claiming that\n         Confederate forces in Virginia were too small to allow a\n         further reduction of strength. After a year's service in the\n         Eastern theater, Thompson was promoted to Major and sent home\n         to Kentucky in 1863 to recruit new members for the regiment.\n         He was captured behind enemy lines at Owensboro and sentenced\n         to be shot as a spy, but Confederate authorities intervened\n         and got the sentence reduced to imprisonment at Johnson's\n         Island, Sanduscky, Ohio, where he remained until the close of\n         the war. While in prison he corresponded with Neilia Cave of\n         Orange, Virginia, a girl he had met while stationed there with\n         his regiment. Thompson returned to Orange, and married Neilia;\n         their son, also named John P. Thompson, was born in 1867. The\n         elder Thompson returned to Kentucky to engage in politics on\n         the Democratic side. His letters to his wife discuss his\n         political activities. He seems to have passed away in the\n         later 1870's.","Most of the correspondence between 1870 and 1918 concerns\n         the younger John P. Thompson, his mother, and his wife,\n         Florence Kemper Thompson. The letters trace Thompson's early\n         wide-ranging attempts to establish himself in business and his\n         search for a bride in places ranging from San Francisco to New\n         York City. In 1899 Thompson married Florence Kemper, owner of\n         \"Walnut Hills\" in Orange County, Virginia. She had inherited\n         this small estate of her father, Confederate general and\n         Virginia governor James L. Kemper, upon his death in 1895. The\n         couple remained childless. The remaining correspondence\n         concerns Thompson's efforts to change \"Walnut Hills\" from a\n         simple home into a summer resort and develop the farming\n         business by expanding into raising bulls and steers. Much of\n         the correspondence is personal correspondence between the\n         Thompsons and the widowed Mrs. Thompson, who had moved with\n         Leslie H. Gray to Brooklyn, New York. These letters describe\n         and contrast city life in New York at the turn of the century,\n         including famous city personages such as Frederick Dent Grant,\n         eldest son of Ulysses S. Grant, with Southern rural society\n         with its traditions and memories of the Lost Cause. The\n         Thompsons sold \"Walnut Hills\" around 1930. Florence Thomspon\n         died in 1944, her husband died a year later.","The manuscript series dating from 1884 to 1911 includes\n         several memorandum books kept by the Thompsons recording\n         letters mailed and attendance at local dances. There are some\n         recollections of Neilia Cave Thompson about life in Civil War\n         Virginia, several unsigned stories, and a few humorous\n         political anecdotes.","The financial papers, spanning the years 1860 to 1918,\n         regard the younger Thompson's business transactions in\n         attempting to develop his farm. 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Thompson, Jr. (1967-1945), and his wife\n         Florence Kemper Thompson (1859-1944), daughter of Confederate\n         general and Virginia governor James Lawson Kemper.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe correspondence series, dating from 1862 to 1918,\n         consists of personal and financial correspondence. John P.\n         Thompson, Sr., a native of Owensboro, Kentucky, joined the\n         Confederate army in 1861 and was commissioned a Captain\n         commanding Company G, 1st Kentucky Cavalry. He went with his\n         regiment to Manassas Junction, Virginia to join Confederate\n         forces there under Joseph E. Johnston. When Union troops under\n         Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant seized Paducah, Kentucky,\n         to counter a Confederate thrust into the then-neutral Blue\n         Grass state, Thompson and his company petitioned Confederate\n         president Jefferson Davis to let them return to defend their\n         native state. Davis refused their petition, claiming that\n         Confederate forces in Virginia were too small to allow a\n         further reduction of strength. After a year's service in the\n         Eastern theater, Thompson was promoted to Major and sent home\n         to Kentucky in 1863 to recruit new members for the regiment.\n         He was captured behind enemy lines at Owensboro and sentenced\n         to be shot as a spy, but Confederate authorities intervened\n         and got the sentence reduced to imprisonment at Johnson's\n         Island, Sanduscky, Ohio, where he remained until the close of\n         the war. While in prison he corresponded with Neilia Cave of\n         Orange, Virginia, a girl he had met while stationed there with\n         his regiment. Thompson returned to Orange, and married Neilia;\n         their son, also named John P. Thompson, was born in 1867. The\n         elder Thompson returned to Kentucky to engage in politics on\n         the Democratic side. His letters to his wife discuss his\n         political activities. He seems to have passed away in the\n         later 1870's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost of the correspondence between 1870 and 1918 concerns\n         the younger John P. Thompson, his mother, and his wife,\n         Florence Kemper Thompson. The letters trace Thompson's early\n         wide-ranging attempts to establish himself in business and his\n         search for a bride in places ranging from San Francisco to New\n         York City. In 1899 Thompson married Florence Kemper, owner of\n         \"Walnut Hills\" in Orange County, Virginia. She had inherited\n         this small estate of her father, Confederate general and\n         Virginia governor James L. Kemper, upon his death in 1895. The\n         couple remained childless. The remaining correspondence\n         concerns Thompson's efforts to change \"Walnut Hills\" from a\n         simple home into a summer resort and develop the farming\n         business by expanding into raising bulls and steers. Much of\n         the correspondence is personal correspondence between the\n         Thompsons and the widowed Mrs. Thompson, who had moved with\n         Leslie H. Gray to Brooklyn, New York. These letters describe\n         and contrast city life in New York at the turn of the century,\n         including famous city personages such as Frederick Dent Grant,\n         eldest son of Ulysses S. Grant, with Southern rural society\n         with its traditions and memories of the Lost Cause. The\n         Thompsons sold \"Walnut Hills\" around 1930. 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Davis refused their petition, claiming that\n         Confederate forces in Virginia were too small to allow a\n         further reduction of strength. After a year's service in the\n         Eastern theater, Thompson was promoted to Major and sent home\n         to Kentucky in 1863 to recruit new members for the regiment.\n         He was captured behind enemy lines at Owensboro and sentenced\n         to be shot as a spy, but Confederate authorities intervened\n         and got the sentence reduced to imprisonment at Johnson's\n         Island, Sanduscky, Ohio, where he remained until the close of\n         the war. While in prison he corresponded with Neilia Cave of\n         Orange, Virginia, a girl he had met while stationed there with\n         his regiment. Thompson returned to Orange, and married Neilia;\n         their son, also named John P. Thompson, was born in 1867. The\n         elder Thompson returned to Kentucky to engage in politics on\n         the Democratic side. His letters to his wife discuss his\n         political activities. He seems to have passed away in the\n         later 1870's.","Most of the correspondence between 1870 and 1918 concerns\n         the younger John P. Thompson, his mother, and his wife,\n         Florence Kemper Thompson. The letters trace Thompson's early\n         wide-ranging attempts to establish himself in business and his\n         search for a bride in places ranging from San Francisco to New\n         York City. In 1899 Thompson married Florence Kemper, owner of\n         \"Walnut Hills\" in Orange County, Virginia. She had inherited\n         this small estate of her father, Confederate general and\n         Virginia governor James L. Kemper, upon his death in 1895. The\n         couple remained childless. The remaining correspondence\n         concerns Thompson's efforts to change \"Walnut Hills\" from a\n         simple home into a summer resort and develop the farming\n         business by expanding into raising bulls and steers. Much of\n         the correspondence is personal correspondence between the\n         Thompsons and the widowed Mrs. Thompson, who had moved with\n         Leslie H. Gray to Brooklyn, New York. These letters describe\n         and contrast city life in New York at the turn of the century,\n         including famous city personages such as Frederick Dent Grant,\n         eldest son of Ulysses S. Grant, with Southern rural society\n         with its traditions and memories of the Lost Cause. The\n         Thompsons sold \"Walnut Hills\" around 1930. Florence Thomspon\n         died in 1944, her husband died a year later.","The manuscript series dating from 1884 to 1911 includes\n         several memorandum books kept by the Thompsons recording\n         letters mailed and attendance at local dances. There are some\n         recollections of Neilia Cave Thompson about life in Civil War\n         Virginia, several unsigned stories, and a few humorous\n         political anecdotes.","The financial papers, spanning the years 1860 to 1918,\n         regard the younger Thompson's business transactions in\n         attempting to develop his farm. Other financial papers concern\n         \"Walnut Hills,\" including guest lists and typewritten drafts\n         of descriptive brochures, and Thompson's bulls.","The printed material series, from 1898 to 1928, consists\n         mainly of advertisements for farm machinery and fashions.\n         There are several medical periodicals, a play program, and\n         postcards and printed brochures about \"Walnut Hills.\" Several\n         unidentified photographs are located at the end of the\n         collection."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee the \n            \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.library.virginia.edu/policies/use-of-materials\"\u003e\n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":16,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T12:35:45.659Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu03326_c01"}},{"id":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_419_c03","type":"Series","attributes":{"title":"Ephemera","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihart_repositories_4_resources_419_c03#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eSeries 3: Ephemera, 1872, 1907, includes two Thompson family photographs and a newspaper clipping from the December 19, 1907 \u003cem\u003eHarrisonburg Daily Times\u003c/em\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihart_repositories_4_resources_419_c03#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_419_c03","ref_ssm":["vihart_repositories_4_resources_419_c03"],"id":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_419_c03","ead_ssi":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_419","_root_":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_419","_nest_parent_":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_419","parent_ssi":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_419","parent_ssim":["vihart_repositories_4_resources_419"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vihart_repositories_4_resources_419"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Thompson Family Papers"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Thompson Family Papers"],"text":["Thompson Family Papers","Ephemera","Series 3: Ephemera, 1872, 1907, includes two Thompson family photographs and a newspaper clipping from the December 19, 1907  Harrisonburg Daily Times .","One photograph, taken by Jas. 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Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the James Madison University Special Collections Library to use this collection."],"parent_access_terms_tesm":["The copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu)."],"date_range_isim":[1872,1907],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeries 3: Ephemera, 1872, 1907, includes two Thompson family photographs and a newspaper clipping from the December 19, 1907 \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHarrisonburg Daily Times\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne photograph, taken by Jas. O. A. Clary's Palace of Photography in Harrisonburg, depicts Benjamin F. Thompson on November 18, 1872. The verso is inscribed with the following: \"No. 18th 1872. Age 23 y 6 m 8 d. B. F. Y.\" The identity of the person in the second photograph is likely Clarissa Moubray Thompson based on the genealogical clues provided in the inscription: \"Joseph Thompson wife. My great grand mother. Mary A. Thompson.\" This photograph was also taken by Jas. O. A. Clary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe newspaper clipping is the full front page of the December 19, 1907 issue of the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHarrisonburg Daily Times\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Series 3: Ephemera, 1872, 1907, includes two Thompson family photographs and a newspaper clipping from the December 19, 1907  Harrisonburg Daily Times .","One photograph, taken by Jas. O. A. Clary's Palace of Photography in Harrisonburg, depicts Benjamin F. Thompson on November 18, 1872. The verso is inscribed with the following: \"No. 18th 1872. Age 23 y 6 m 8 d. B. F. Y.\" The identity of the person in the second photograph is likely Clarissa Moubray Thompson based on the genealogical clues provided in the inscription: \"Joseph Thompson wife. My great grand mother. Mary A. Thompson.\" This photograph was also taken by Jas. O. A. Clary.","The newspaper clipping is the full front page of the December 19, 1907 issue of the  Harrisonburg Daily Times ."],"_nest_path_":"/components#2","timestamp":"2026-05-21T00:22:14.908Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_419","ead_ssi":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_419","_root_":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_419","_nest_parent_":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_419","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/JMU/repositories_4_resources_419.xml","title_ssm":["Thompson Family Papers"],"title_tesim":["Thompson Family Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1869-1944"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1869-1944"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["SC 0246","/repositories/4/resources/419"],"text":["SC 0246","/repositories/4/resources/419","Thompson Family Papers","Rockingham County (Va.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century","Rockingham County (Va.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century","Rockingham County (Va.) -- History -- 19th century","Rockingham County (Va.) -- History -- 20th century","Rockingham County (Va.) -- Genealogy","Virginia -- Genealogy","Agriculture -- 19th century","Agriculture -- 20th century","Farm life -- 19th century","Farm life -- 20th century","Farmers -- Virginia -- Rockingham County -- 19th century","Farmers -- Virginia -- Rockingham County -- 20th century","Letters (correspondence)","Diaries","Weather diaries","Housebooks","Black-and-white photographs","Genealogies (histories)","Autograph albums","Ration books","Family papers","Collection open to research. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection. Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the James Madison University Special Collections Library to use this collection.","The collections is arranged in three series. The contents are then further arranged chronologically.","Correspondence, 1869-1873, 1944 Personal Papers, 1886-1902, 1943 Ephemera, 1872, 1907","Obituary for Benjamin F. Thompson,  Rockingham Daily Record , January 2, 1913.","Obituary for Mary A. Thompson,  Daily News-Record , November 26, 1997.","Benjamin F. \"Frank\" Thompson was born March 10, 1849 to Joseph and Clarissa Moubray Thompson (b. 1820). He married Martha Ellen Liskey on November 13, 1873. They lived in the Mt. Sinai community of Rockingham County for many years and together had six children. He was a farmer by trade. Thompson died January 1, 1913 after complications from a runaway accident involving a one horse wagon he was driving. According to his obituary, Thompson had for some time been residing with his son John W. Thompson. The obituary later lists his surviving children, including Benjamin H. Thompson and Ida E. Thompson \"who lived with their mother.\" This suggests that, for one reason or another, Frank Thompson was not living in the same residence as Martha Thompson, his children's mother.","Other family members documented in this collection include Elizabeth Frances Sharpes Thompson (1872-1958) who was married to John William Thompson (1874-1932), Benjamin F. Thompson's eldest son; and Mary A. Thompson (1903-1997), the daughter of John W. and Elizabeth Sharpes Thompson.","These materials descended in the Benjamin F. Thompson (1849-1913) family of Rockingham County, Virginia.","The collection was received in no particular order. As a result, the archivist imposed an arrangement based on material type and date.","Mary A. Thompson Papers, 1882-1974, SC 0152, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.","The Thompson Family Papers, 1869-1944, document the lives of Benjamin F. Thompson and his family. The collection includes correspondence between Thompson and his future-wife Martha E. Liskey Thompson, diaries, a weather journal, financial and legal documents, genealogical notes, and family photographs.","Series 1: Correspondence, 1869-1873, 1944, is comprised primarily of approximately 17 letters between Benjamin F. Thompson and Martha E. Liskey Thompson, written during their courtship. The content is generally newsy in nature and includes community and family gossip. The letters are also sentimental, conveying feelings of longing to be in the physical presence of one another. Miscellaneous letters, from persons with an unknown relationship to the Thompson family, are also included. The letters are arranged by recipient.","Series 2: Personal Papers, 1886-1902, 1943, includes miscellaneous papers of the Thompson family primarily created by Benjamin F. Thompson. Papers include a listing of household accounts, a bargain agreement between Benjamin F. Thompson and Daniel Liskey for one hog and one piece of land adjoining the Mt. Vernon school house lot, and two diaries and one weather journal written by Benjamin F. Thompson. Thompson's diaries include brief daily entries in which he mentions visiting with neighbors, travel and work duties, and weather happenings. Of particular interest is a copy of an April 10, 1888 article of agreement between the Board of Trustees of Central School District of Rockingham County and Benjamin F. Thompson, et. al.. In this agreement the Board permits Thompson, Noah, L. Spitzer, and J. P. Brown to use school house number 10 (Dillard or Mt. Vernon) for preaching, Sunday school, and singing during the summer of 1888. In return, Thompson, et. al. will complete all necessary repairs to the building by October 1, 1888 in order to make it ready for public school.","The papers also include handwritten genealogical notes on the Thompson and Liskey families. Also included is an autograph album and war ration book belonging to Elizabeth F. Sharpes Thompson, Benjamin F. Thompson's daughter-in-law.","Series 3: Ephemera, 1872, 1907, includes two Thompson family photographs and a newspaper clipping from the December 19, 1907  Harrisonburg Daily Times .","One photograph, taken by Jas. O. A. Clary's Palace of Photography in Harrisonburg, depicts Benjamin F. Thompson on November 18, 1872. The verso is inscribed with the following: \"No. 18th 1872. Age 23 y 6 m 8 d. B. F. Y.\" The identity of the person in the second photograph is likely Clarissa Moubray Thompson based on the genealogical clues provided in the inscription: \"Joseph Thompson wife. My great grand mother. Mary A. Thompson.\" This photograph was also taken by Jas. O. A. Clary.","The newspaper clipping is the full front page of the December 19, 1907 issue of the  Harrisonburg Daily Times .","The copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).","The Thompson Family Papers, 1869-1944, document the lives of Benjamin F. Thompson and his immediate family. The collection includes correspondence, diaries, a weather journal, financial and legal documents, genealogical notes, and family photographs.","James Madison University Libraries Special Collections","Jeffrey S. 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Thompson \"who lived with their mother.\" This suggests that, for one reason or another, Frank Thompson was not living in the same residence as Martha Thompson, his children's mother.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther family members documented in this collection include Elizabeth Frances Sharpes Thompson (1872-1958) who was married to John William Thompson (1874-1932), Benjamin F. Thompson's eldest son; and Mary A. Thompson (1903-1997), the daughter of John W. and Elizabeth Sharpes Thompson.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Bio/Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["Benjamin F. \"Frank\" Thompson was born March 10, 1849 to Joseph and Clarissa Moubray Thompson (b. 1820). He married Martha Ellen Liskey on November 13, 1873. They lived in the Mt. Sinai community of Rockingham County for many years and together had six children. He was a farmer by trade. Thompson died January 1, 1913 after complications from a runaway accident involving a one horse wagon he was driving. According to his obituary, Thompson had for some time been residing with his son John W. Thompson. The obituary later lists his surviving children, including Benjamin H. Thompson and Ida E. Thompson \"who lived with their mother.\" This suggests that, for one reason or another, Frank Thompson was not living in the same residence as Martha Thompson, his children's mother.","Other family members documented in this collection include Elizabeth Frances Sharpes Thompson (1872-1958) who was married to John William Thompson (1874-1932), Benjamin F. Thompson's eldest son; and Mary A. Thompson (1903-1997), the daughter of John W. and Elizabeth Sharpes Thompson."],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThese materials descended in the Benjamin F. Thompson (1849-1913) family of Rockingham County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"custodhist_heading_ssm":["Provenance"],"custodhist_tesim":["These materials descended in the Benjamin F. 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Thompson and Daniel Liskey for one hog and one piece of land adjoining the Mt. Vernon school house lot, and two diaries and one weather journal written by Benjamin F. Thompson. Thompson's diaries include brief daily entries in which he mentions visiting with neighbors, travel and work duties, and weather happenings. Of particular interest is a copy of an April 10, 1888 article of agreement between the Board of Trustees of Central School District of Rockingham County and Benjamin F. Thompson, et. al.. In this agreement the Board permits Thompson, Noah, L. Spitzer, and J. P. Brown to use school house number 10 (Dillard or Mt. Vernon) for preaching, Sunday school, and singing during the summer of 1888. In return, Thompson, et. al. will complete all necessary repairs to the building by October 1, 1888 in order to make it ready for public school.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe papers also include handwritten genealogical notes on the Thompson and Liskey families. 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Clary.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe newspaper clipping is the full front page of the December 19, 1907 issue of the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHarrisonburg Daily Times\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Thompson Family Papers, 1869-1944, document the lives of Benjamin F. Thompson and his family. The collection includes correspondence between Thompson and his future-wife Martha E. Liskey Thompson, diaries, a weather journal, financial and legal documents, genealogical notes, and family photographs.","Series 1: Correspondence, 1869-1873, 1944, is comprised primarily of approximately 17 letters between Benjamin F. Thompson and Martha E. Liskey Thompson, written during their courtship. The content is generally newsy in nature and includes community and family gossip. The letters are also sentimental, conveying feelings of longing to be in the physical presence of one another. Miscellaneous letters, from persons with an unknown relationship to the Thompson family, are also included. The letters are arranged by recipient.","Series 2: Personal Papers, 1886-1902, 1943, includes miscellaneous papers of the Thompson family primarily created by Benjamin F. Thompson. Papers include a listing of household accounts, a bargain agreement between Benjamin F. Thompson and Daniel Liskey for one hog and one piece of land adjoining the Mt. Vernon school house lot, and two diaries and one weather journal written by Benjamin F. Thompson. Thompson's diaries include brief daily entries in which he mentions visiting with neighbors, travel and work duties, and weather happenings. Of particular interest is a copy of an April 10, 1888 article of agreement between the Board of Trustees of Central School District of Rockingham County and Benjamin F. Thompson, et. al.. In this agreement the Board permits Thompson, Noah, L. Spitzer, and J. P. Brown to use school house number 10 (Dillard or Mt. Vernon) for preaching, Sunday school, and singing during the summer of 1888. In return, Thompson, et. al. will complete all necessary repairs to the building by October 1, 1888 in order to make it ready for public school.","The papers also include handwritten genealogical notes on the Thompson and Liskey families. Also included is an autograph album and war ration book belonging to Elizabeth F. Sharpes Thompson, Benjamin F. Thompson's daughter-in-law.","Series 3: Ephemera, 1872, 1907, includes two Thompson family photographs and a newspaper clipping from the December 19, 1907  Harrisonburg Daily Times .","One photograph, taken by Jas. O. A. Clary's Palace of Photography in Harrisonburg, depicts Benjamin F. Thompson on November 18, 1872. The verso is inscribed with the following: \"No. 18th 1872. Age 23 y 6 m 8 d. B. F. Y.\" The identity of the person in the second photograph is likely Clarissa Moubray Thompson based on the genealogical clues provided in the inscription: \"Joseph Thompson wife. My great grand mother. Mary A. Thompson.\" This photograph was also taken by Jas. O. A. Clary.","The newspaper clipping is the full front page of the December 19, 1907 issue of the  Harrisonburg Daily Times ."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. 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When Union troops under\n         Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant seized Paducah, Kentucky,\n         to counter a Confederate thrust into the then-neutral Blue\n         Grass state, Thompson and his company petitioned Confederate\n         president Jefferson Davis to let them return to defend their\n         native state. Davis refused their petition, claiming that\n         Confederate forces in Virginia were too small to allow a\n         further reduction of strength. After a year's service in the\n         Eastern theater, Thompson was promoted to Major and sent home\n         to Kentucky in 1863 to recruit new members for the regiment.\n         He was captured behind enemy lines at Owensboro and sentenced\n         to be shot as a spy, but Confederate authorities intervened\n         and got the sentence reduced to imprisonment at Johnson's\n         Island, Sanduscky, Ohio, where he remained until the close of\n         the war. While in prison he corresponded with Neilia Cave of\n         Orange, Virginia, a girl he had met while stationed there with\n         his regiment. Thompson returned to Orange, and married Neilia;\n         their son, also named John P. Thompson, was born in 1867. The\n         elder Thompson returned to Kentucky to engage in politics on\n         the Democratic side. His letters to his wife discuss his\n         political activities. He seems to have passed away in the\n         later 1870's.","Most of the correspondence between 1870 and 1918 concerns\n         the younger John P. Thompson, his mother, and his wife,\n         Florence Kemper Thompson. The letters trace Thompson's early\n         wide-ranging attempts to establish himself in business and his\n         search for a bride in places ranging from San Francisco to New\n         York City. In 1899 Thompson married Florence Kemper, owner of\n         \"Walnut Hills\" in Orange County, Virginia. She had inherited\n         this small estate of her father, Confederate general and\n         Virginia governor James L. Kemper, upon his death in 1895. The\n         couple remained childless. The remaining correspondence\n         concerns Thompson's efforts to change \"Walnut Hills\" from a\n         simple home into a summer resort and develop the farming\n         business by expanding into raising bulls and steers. Much of\n         the correspondence is personal correspondence between the\n         Thompsons and the widowed Mrs. Thompson, who had moved with\n         Leslie H. Gray to Brooklyn, New York. These letters describe\n         and contrast city life in New York at the turn of the century,\n         including famous city personages such as Frederick Dent Grant,\n         eldest son of Ulysses S. Grant, with Southern rural society\n         with its traditions and memories of the Lost Cause. The\n         Thompsons sold \"Walnut Hills\" around 1930. Florence Thomspon\n         died in 1944, her husband died a year later.","The manuscript series dating from 1884 to 1911 includes\n         several memorandum books kept by the Thompsons recording\n         letters mailed and attendance at local dances. There are some\n         recollections of Neilia Cave Thompson about life in Civil War\n         Virginia, several unsigned stories, and a few humorous\n         political anecdotes.","The financial papers, spanning the years 1860 to 1918,\n         regard the younger Thompson's business transactions in\n         attempting to develop his farm. Other financial papers concern\n         \"Walnut Hills,\" including guest lists and typewritten drafts\n         of descriptive brochures, and Thompson's bulls.","The printed material series, from 1898 to 1928, consists\n         mainly of advertisements for farm machinery and fashions.\n         There are several medical periodicals, a play program, and\n         postcards and printed brochures about \"Walnut Hills.\" Several\n         unidentified photographs are located at the end of the\n         collection.","See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["4098-a"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Thompson Family Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["Thompson Family Papers"],"collection_ssim":["Thompson Family Papers"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection was a gift from Mr. Harry P. 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Thompson, Jr. (1967-1945), and his wife\n         Florence Kemper Thompson (1859-1944), daughter of Confederate\n         general and Virginia governor James Lawson Kemper.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe correspondence series, dating from 1862 to 1918,\n         consists of personal and financial correspondence. John P.\n         Thompson, Sr., a native of Owensboro, Kentucky, joined the\n         Confederate army in 1861 and was commissioned a Captain\n         commanding Company G, 1st Kentucky Cavalry. He went with his\n         regiment to Manassas Junction, Virginia to join Confederate\n         forces there under Joseph E. Johnston. When Union troops under\n         Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant seized Paducah, Kentucky,\n         to counter a Confederate thrust into the then-neutral Blue\n         Grass state, Thompson and his company petitioned Confederate\n         president Jefferson Davis to let them return to defend their\n         native state. Davis refused their petition, claiming that\n         Confederate forces in Virginia were too small to allow a\n         further reduction of strength. After a year's service in the\n         Eastern theater, Thompson was promoted to Major and sent home\n         to Kentucky in 1863 to recruit new members for the regiment.\n         He was captured behind enemy lines at Owensboro and sentenced\n         to be shot as a spy, but Confederate authorities intervened\n         and got the sentence reduced to imprisonment at Johnson's\n         Island, Sanduscky, Ohio, where he remained until the close of\n         the war. While in prison he corresponded with Neilia Cave of\n         Orange, Virginia, a girl he had met while stationed there with\n         his regiment. Thompson returned to Orange, and married Neilia;\n         their son, also named John P. Thompson, was born in 1867. The\n         elder Thompson returned to Kentucky to engage in politics on\n         the Democratic side. 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The remaining correspondence\n         concerns Thompson's efforts to change \"Walnut Hills\" from a\n         simple home into a summer resort and develop the farming\n         business by expanding into raising bulls and steers. Much of\n         the correspondence is personal correspondence between the\n         Thompsons and the widowed Mrs. Thompson, who had moved with\n         Leslie H. Gray to Brooklyn, New York. These letters describe\n         and contrast city life in New York at the turn of the century,\n         including famous city personages such as Frederick Dent Grant,\n         eldest son of Ulysses S. Grant, with Southern rural society\n         with its traditions and memories of the Lost Cause. The\n         Thompsons sold \"Walnut Hills\" around 1930. 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Thompson, Jr. (1967-1945), and his wife\n         Florence Kemper Thompson (1859-1944), daughter of Confederate\n         general and Virginia governor James Lawson Kemper.","The correspondence series, dating from 1862 to 1918,\n         consists of personal and financial correspondence. John P.\n         Thompson, Sr., a native of Owensboro, Kentucky, joined the\n         Confederate army in 1861 and was commissioned a Captain\n         commanding Company G, 1st Kentucky Cavalry. He went with his\n         regiment to Manassas Junction, Virginia to join Confederate\n         forces there under Joseph E. Johnston. When Union troops under\n         Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant seized Paducah, Kentucky,\n         to counter a Confederate thrust into the then-neutral Blue\n         Grass state, Thompson and his company petitioned Confederate\n         president Jefferson Davis to let them return to defend their\n         native state. Davis refused their petition, claiming that\n         Confederate forces in Virginia were too small to allow a\n         further reduction of strength. After a year's service in the\n         Eastern theater, Thompson was promoted to Major and sent home\n         to Kentucky in 1863 to recruit new members for the regiment.\n         He was captured behind enemy lines at Owensboro and sentenced\n         to be shot as a spy, but Confederate authorities intervened\n         and got the sentence reduced to imprisonment at Johnson's\n         Island, Sanduscky, Ohio, where he remained until the close of\n         the war. While in prison he corresponded with Neilia Cave of\n         Orange, Virginia, a girl he had met while stationed there with\n         his regiment. Thompson returned to Orange, and married Neilia;\n         their son, also named John P. Thompson, was born in 1867. The\n         elder Thompson returned to Kentucky to engage in politics on\n         the Democratic side. His letters to his wife discuss his\n         political activities. He seems to have passed away in the\n         later 1870's.","Most of the correspondence between 1870 and 1918 concerns\n         the younger John P. Thompson, his mother, and his wife,\n         Florence Kemper Thompson. The letters trace Thompson's early\n         wide-ranging attempts to establish himself in business and his\n         search for a bride in places ranging from San Francisco to New\n         York City. In 1899 Thompson married Florence Kemper, owner of\n         \"Walnut Hills\" in Orange County, Virginia. She had inherited\n         this small estate of her father, Confederate general and\n         Virginia governor James L. Kemper, upon his death in 1895. The\n         couple remained childless. The remaining correspondence\n         concerns Thompson's efforts to change \"Walnut Hills\" from a\n         simple home into a summer resort and develop the farming\n         business by expanding into raising bulls and steers. Much of\n         the correspondence is personal correspondence between the\n         Thompsons and the widowed Mrs. Thompson, who had moved with\n         Leslie H. Gray to Brooklyn, New York. These letters describe\n         and contrast city life in New York at the turn of the century,\n         including famous city personages such as Frederick Dent Grant,\n         eldest son of Ulysses S. Grant, with Southern rural society\n         with its traditions and memories of the Lost Cause. The\n         Thompsons sold \"Walnut Hills\" around 1930. Florence Thomspon\n         died in 1944, her husband died a year later.","The manuscript series dating from 1884 to 1911 includes\n         several memorandum books kept by the Thompsons recording\n         letters mailed and attendance at local dances. There are some\n         recollections of Neilia Cave Thompson about life in Civil War\n         Virginia, several unsigned stories, and a few humorous\n         political anecdotes.","The financial papers, spanning the years 1860 to 1918,\n         regard the younger Thompson's business transactions in\n         attempting to develop his farm. Other financial papers concern\n         \"Walnut Hills,\" including guest lists and typewritten drafts\n         of descriptive brochures, and Thompson's bulls.","The printed material series, from 1898 to 1928, consists\n         mainly of advertisements for farm machinery and fashions.\n         There are several medical periodicals, a play program, and\n         postcards and printed brochures about \"Walnut Hills.\" Several\n         unidentified photographs are located at the end of the\n         collection."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee the \n            \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.library.virginia.edu/policies/use-of-materials\"\u003e\n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":16,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T12:35:45.659Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu03326_c03"}},{"id":"viu_viu03326_c02","type":"Series","attributes":{"title":"Manuscripts","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu03326_c02#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"viu_viu03326_c02","ref_ssm":["viu_viu03326_c02"],"id":"viu_viu03326_c02","ead_ssi":"viu_viu03326","_root_":"viu_viu03326","_nest_parent_":"viu_viu03326","parent_ssi":"viu_viu03326","parent_ssim":["viu_viu03326"],"parent_ids_ssim":["viu_viu03326"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Thompson Family Papers"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Thompson Family Papers"],"text":["Thompson Family Papers","Manuscripts"],"title_filing_ssi":"Manuscripts","title_ssm":["Manuscripts"],"title_tesim":["Manuscripts"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Manuscripts"],"component_level_isim":[1],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"collection_ssim":["Thompson Family Papers"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":2,"level_ssm":["Series"],"level_ssim":["Series"],"sort_isi":4,"_nest_path_":"/components#1","timestamp":"2026-05-21T12:35:45.659Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viu_viu03326","ead_ssi":"viu_viu03326","_root_":"viu_viu03326","_nest_parent_":"viu_viu03326","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/uva-sc/viu03326.xml","title_ssm":["Thompson Family Papers"],"title_tesim":["Thompson Family Papers"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["4098-a"],"text":["4098-a","Thompson Family Papers","This collection\n         consists of 1,600 items (4 Hollinger boxes, 1.3 shelf\n         feet)","There are no restrictions.","This collection is organized into six series:\n         correspondence, manuscripts, financial papers, printed\n         materials, books, and photographs. Each series is organized\n         chronologically.","The Thompson Family papers include the correspondence,\n         manuscripts, and financial papers of John P. Thompson, Sr.\n         (dates unknown), a Confederate officer and Democratic\n         politician, his wife Neilia Cave Thompson (dates unknown),\n         their son John P. Thompson, Jr. (1967-1945), and his wife\n         Florence Kemper Thompson (1859-1944), daughter of Confederate\n         general and Virginia governor James Lawson Kemper.","The correspondence series, dating from 1862 to 1918,\n         consists of personal and financial correspondence. John P.\n         Thompson, Sr., a native of Owensboro, Kentucky, joined the\n         Confederate army in 1861 and was commissioned a Captain\n         commanding Company G, 1st Kentucky Cavalry. He went with his\n         regiment to Manassas Junction, Virginia to join Confederate\n         forces there under Joseph E. Johnston. When Union troops under\n         Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant seized Paducah, Kentucky,\n         to counter a Confederate thrust into the then-neutral Blue\n         Grass state, Thompson and his company petitioned Confederate\n         president Jefferson Davis to let them return to defend their\n         native state. Davis refused their petition, claiming that\n         Confederate forces in Virginia were too small to allow a\n         further reduction of strength. After a year's service in the\n         Eastern theater, Thompson was promoted to Major and sent home\n         to Kentucky in 1863 to recruit new members for the regiment.\n         He was captured behind enemy lines at Owensboro and sentenced\n         to be shot as a spy, but Confederate authorities intervened\n         and got the sentence reduced to imprisonment at Johnson's\n         Island, Sanduscky, Ohio, where he remained until the close of\n         the war. 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She had inherited\n         this small estate of her father, Confederate general and\n         Virginia governor James L. Kemper, upon his death in 1895. The\n         couple remained childless. The remaining correspondence\n         concerns Thompson's efforts to change \"Walnut Hills\" from a\n         simple home into a summer resort and develop the farming\n         business by expanding into raising bulls and steers. Much of\n         the correspondence is personal correspondence between the\n         Thompsons and the widowed Mrs. Thompson, who had moved with\n         Leslie H. Gray to Brooklyn, New York. These letters describe\n         and contrast city life in New York at the turn of the century,\n         including famous city personages such as Frederick Dent Grant,\n         eldest son of Ulysses S. Grant, with Southern rural society\n         with its traditions and memories of the Lost Cause. The\n         Thompsons sold \"Walnut Hills\" around 1930. 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Thompson, Jr. (1967-1945), and his wife\n         Florence Kemper Thompson (1859-1944), daughter of Confederate\n         general and Virginia governor James Lawson Kemper.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe correspondence series, dating from 1862 to 1918,\n         consists of personal and financial correspondence. John P.\n         Thompson, Sr., a native of Owensboro, Kentucky, joined the\n         Confederate army in 1861 and was commissioned a Captain\n         commanding Company G, 1st Kentucky Cavalry. He went with his\n         regiment to Manassas Junction, Virginia to join Confederate\n         forces there under Joseph E. Johnston. When Union troops under\n         Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant seized Paducah, Kentucky,\n         to counter a Confederate thrust into the then-neutral Blue\n         Grass state, Thompson and his company petitioned Confederate\n         president Jefferson Davis to let them return to defend their\n         native state. Davis refused their petition, claiming that\n         Confederate forces in Virginia were too small to allow a\n         further reduction of strength. After a year's service in the\n         Eastern theater, Thompson was promoted to Major and sent home\n         to Kentucky in 1863 to recruit new members for the regiment.\n         He was captured behind enemy lines at Owensboro and sentenced\n         to be shot as a spy, but Confederate authorities intervened\n         and got the sentence reduced to imprisonment at Johnson's\n         Island, Sanduscky, Ohio, where he remained until the close of\n         the war. While in prison he corresponded with Neilia Cave of\n         Orange, Virginia, a girl he had met while stationed there with\n         his regiment. Thompson returned to Orange, and married Neilia;\n         their son, also named John P. Thompson, was born in 1867. The\n         elder Thompson returned to Kentucky to engage in politics on\n         the Democratic side. His letters to his wife discuss his\n         political activities. He seems to have passed away in the\n         later 1870's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost of the correspondence between 1870 and 1918 concerns\n         the younger John P. Thompson, his mother, and his wife,\n         Florence Kemper Thompson. The letters trace Thompson's early\n         wide-ranging attempts to establish himself in business and his\n         search for a bride in places ranging from San Francisco to New\n         York City. In 1899 Thompson married Florence Kemper, owner of\n         \"Walnut Hills\" in Orange County, Virginia. She had inherited\n         this small estate of her father, Confederate general and\n         Virginia governor James L. Kemper, upon his death in 1895. The\n         couple remained childless. The remaining correspondence\n         concerns Thompson's efforts to change \"Walnut Hills\" from a\n         simple home into a summer resort and develop the farming\n         business by expanding into raising bulls and steers. Much of\n         the correspondence is personal correspondence between the\n         Thompsons and the widowed Mrs. Thompson, who had moved with\n         Leslie H. Gray to Brooklyn, New York. These letters describe\n         and contrast city life in New York at the turn of the century,\n         including famous city personages such as Frederick Dent Grant,\n         eldest son of Ulysses S. Grant, with Southern rural society\n         with its traditions and memories of the Lost Cause. The\n         Thompsons sold \"Walnut Hills\" around 1930. 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Davis refused their petition, claiming that\n         Confederate forces in Virginia were too small to allow a\n         further reduction of strength. After a year's service in the\n         Eastern theater, Thompson was promoted to Major and sent home\n         to Kentucky in 1863 to recruit new members for the regiment.\n         He was captured behind enemy lines at Owensboro and sentenced\n         to be shot as a spy, but Confederate authorities intervened\n         and got the sentence reduced to imprisonment at Johnson's\n         Island, Sanduscky, Ohio, where he remained until the close of\n         the war. While in prison he corresponded with Neilia Cave of\n         Orange, Virginia, a girl he had met while stationed there with\n         his regiment. Thompson returned to Orange, and married Neilia;\n         their son, also named John P. Thompson, was born in 1867. The\n         elder Thompson returned to Kentucky to engage in politics on\n         the Democratic side. His letters to his wife discuss his\n         political activities. He seems to have passed away in the\n         later 1870's.","Most of the correspondence between 1870 and 1918 concerns\n         the younger John P. Thompson, his mother, and his wife,\n         Florence Kemper Thompson. The letters trace Thompson's early\n         wide-ranging attempts to establish himself in business and his\n         search for a bride in places ranging from San Francisco to New\n         York City. In 1899 Thompson married Florence Kemper, owner of\n         \"Walnut Hills\" in Orange County, Virginia. She had inherited\n         this small estate of her father, Confederate general and\n         Virginia governor James L. Kemper, upon his death in 1895. The\n         couple remained childless. The remaining correspondence\n         concerns Thompson's efforts to change \"Walnut Hills\" from a\n         simple home into a summer resort and develop the farming\n         business by expanding into raising bulls and steers. Much of\n         the correspondence is personal correspondence between the\n         Thompsons and the widowed Mrs. Thompson, who had moved with\n         Leslie H. Gray to Brooklyn, New York. These letters describe\n         and contrast city life in New York at the turn of the century,\n         including famous city personages such as Frederick Dent Grant,\n         eldest son of Ulysses S. Grant, with Southern rural society\n         with its traditions and memories of the Lost Cause. The\n         Thompsons sold \"Walnut Hills\" around 1930. Florence Thomspon\n         died in 1944, her husband died a year later.","The manuscript series dating from 1884 to 1911 includes\n         several memorandum books kept by the Thompsons recording\n         letters mailed and attendance at local dances. There are some\n         recollections of Neilia Cave Thompson about life in Civil War\n         Virginia, several unsigned stories, and a few humorous\n         political anecdotes.","The financial papers, spanning the years 1860 to 1918,\n         regard the younger Thompson's business transactions in\n         attempting to develop his farm. Other financial papers concern\n         \"Walnut Hills,\" including guest lists and typewritten drafts\n         of descriptive brochures, and Thompson's bulls.","The printed material series, from 1898 to 1928, consists\n         mainly of advertisements for farm machinery and fashions.\n         There are several medical periodicals, a play program, and\n         postcards and printed brochures about \"Walnut Hills.\" Several\n         unidentified photographs are located at the end of the\n         collection."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee the \n            \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.library.virginia.edu/policies/use-of-materials\"\u003e\n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":16,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T12:35:45.659Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu03326_c02"}},{"id":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_419_c02","type":"Series","attributes":{"title":"Personal Papers","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihart_repositories_4_resources_419_c02#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eSeries 2: Personal Papers, 1886-1902, 1943, includes miscellaneous papers of the Thompson family primarily created by Benjamin F. Thompson. Papers include a listing of household accounts, a bargain agreement between Benjamin F. Thompson and Daniel Liskey for one hog and one piece of land adjoining the Mt. Vernon school house lot, and two diaries and one weather journal written by Benjamin F. Thompson. Thompson's diaries include brief daily entries in which he mentions visiting with neighbors, travel and work duties, and weather happenings. Of particular interest is a copy of an April 10, 1888 article of agreement between the Board of Trustees of Central School District of Rockingham County and Benjamin F. Thompson, et. al.. In this agreement the Board permits Thompson, Noah, L. Spitzer, and J. P. Brown to use school house number 10 (Dillard or Mt. Vernon) for preaching, Sunday school, and singing during the summer of 1888. 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Thompson. Papers include a listing of household accounts, a bargain agreement between Benjamin F. Thompson and Daniel Liskey for one hog and one piece of land adjoining the Mt. Vernon school house lot, and two diaries and one weather journal written by Benjamin F. Thompson. Thompson's diaries include brief daily entries in which he mentions visiting with neighbors, travel and work duties, and weather happenings. Of particular interest is a copy of an April 10, 1888 article of agreement between the Board of Trustees of Central School District of Rockingham County and Benjamin F. Thompson, et. al.. In this agreement the Board permits Thompson, Noah, L. Spitzer, and J. P. Brown to use school house number 10 (Dillard or Mt. Vernon) for preaching, Sunday school, and singing during the summer of 1888. In return, Thompson, et. al. will complete all necessary repairs to the building by October 1, 1888 in order to make it ready for public school.","The papers also include handwritten genealogical notes on the Thompson and Liskey families. Also included is an autograph album and war ration book belonging to Elizabeth F. Sharpes Thompson, Benjamin F. Thompson's daughter-in-law."],"title_filing_ssi":"Personal Papers","title_ssm":["Personal Papers"],"title_tesim":["Personal Papers"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1886-1902"],"unitdate_other_ssim":["1943"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1886/1902"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Personal Papers"],"component_level_isim":[1],"repository_ssim":["James Madison University"],"collection_ssim":["Thompson Family Papers"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":10,"level_ssm":["Series"],"level_ssim":["Series"],"sort_isi":6,"parent_access_restrict_tesm":["Collection open to research. 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According to his obituary, Thompson had for some time been residing with his son John W. Thompson. The obituary later lists his surviving children, including Benjamin H. Thompson and Ida E. Thompson \"who lived with their mother.\" This suggests that, for one reason or another, Frank Thompson was not living in the same residence as Martha Thompson, his children's mother.","Other family members documented in this collection include Elizabeth Frances Sharpes Thompson (1872-1958) who was married to John William Thompson (1874-1932), Benjamin F. Thompson's eldest son; and Mary A. Thompson (1903-1997), the daughter of John W. and Elizabeth Sharpes Thompson.","These materials descended in the Benjamin F. Thompson (1849-1913) family of Rockingham County, Virginia.","The collection was received in no particular order. As a result, the archivist imposed an arrangement based on material type and date.","Mary A. Thompson Papers, 1882-1974, SC 0152, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.","The Thompson Family Papers, 1869-1944, document the lives of Benjamin F. Thompson and his family. The collection includes correspondence between Thompson and his future-wife Martha E. Liskey Thompson, diaries, a weather journal, financial and legal documents, genealogical notes, and family photographs.","Series 1: Correspondence, 1869-1873, 1944, is comprised primarily of approximately 17 letters between Benjamin F. Thompson and Martha E. Liskey Thompson, written during their courtship. The content is generally newsy in nature and includes community and family gossip. The letters are also sentimental, conveying feelings of longing to be in the physical presence of one another. Miscellaneous letters, from persons with an unknown relationship to the Thompson family, are also included. 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The letters are also sentimental, conveying feelings of longing to be in the physical presence of one another. Miscellaneous letters, from persons with an unknown relationship to the Thompson family, are also included. The letters are arranged by recipient.","Series 2: Personal Papers, 1886-1902, 1943, includes miscellaneous papers of the Thompson family primarily created by Benjamin F. Thompson. Papers include a listing of household accounts, a bargain agreement between Benjamin F. Thompson and Daniel Liskey for one hog and one piece of land adjoining the Mt. Vernon school house lot, and two diaries and one weather journal written by Benjamin F. Thompson. Thompson's diaries include brief daily entries in which he mentions visiting with neighbors, travel and work duties, and weather happenings. Of particular interest is a copy of an April 10, 1888 article of agreement between the Board of Trustees of Central School District of Rockingham County and Benjamin F. Thompson, et. al.. In this agreement the Board permits Thompson, Noah, L. Spitzer, and J. P. Brown to use school house number 10 (Dillard or Mt. Vernon) for preaching, Sunday school, and singing during the summer of 1888. In return, Thompson, et. al. will complete all necessary repairs to the building by October 1, 1888 in order to make it ready for public school.","The papers also include handwritten genealogical notes on the Thompson and Liskey families. Also included is an autograph album and war ration book belonging to Elizabeth F. Sharpes Thompson, Benjamin F. Thompson's daughter-in-law.","Series 3: Ephemera, 1872, 1907, includes two Thompson family photographs and a newspaper clipping from the December 19, 1907  Harrisonburg Daily Times .","One photograph, taken by Jas. O. A. Clary's Palace of Photography in Harrisonburg, depicts Benjamin F. Thompson on November 18, 1872. The verso is inscribed with the following: \"No. 18th 1872. Age 23 y 6 m 8 d. B. F. 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When Union troops under\n         Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant seized Paducah, Kentucky,\n         to counter a Confederate thrust into the then-neutral Blue\n         Grass state, Thompson and his company petitioned Confederate\n         president Jefferson Davis to let them return to defend their\n         native state. Davis refused their petition, claiming that\n         Confederate forces in Virginia were too small to allow a\n         further reduction of strength. After a year's service in the\n         Eastern theater, Thompson was promoted to Major and sent home\n         to Kentucky in 1863 to recruit new members for the regiment.\n         He was captured behind enemy lines at Owensboro and sentenced\n         to be shot as a spy, but Confederate authorities intervened\n         and got the sentence reduced to imprisonment at Johnson's\n         Island, Sanduscky, Ohio, where he remained until the close of\n         the war. While in prison he corresponded with Neilia Cave of\n         Orange, Virginia, a girl he had met while stationed there with\n         his regiment. Thompson returned to Orange, and married Neilia;\n         their son, also named John P. Thompson, was born in 1867. The\n         elder Thompson returned to Kentucky to engage in politics on\n         the Democratic side. His letters to his wife discuss his\n         political activities. He seems to have passed away in the\n         later 1870's.","Most of the correspondence between 1870 and 1918 concerns\n         the younger John P. Thompson, his mother, and his wife,\n         Florence Kemper Thompson. The letters trace Thompson's early\n         wide-ranging attempts to establish himself in business and his\n         search for a bride in places ranging from San Francisco to New\n         York City. In 1899 Thompson married Florence Kemper, owner of\n         \"Walnut Hills\" in Orange County, Virginia. She had inherited\n         this small estate of her father, Confederate general and\n         Virginia governor James L. Kemper, upon his death in 1895. The\n         couple remained childless. The remaining correspondence\n         concerns Thompson's efforts to change \"Walnut Hills\" from a\n         simple home into a summer resort and develop the farming\n         business by expanding into raising bulls and steers. Much of\n         the correspondence is personal correspondence between the\n         Thompsons and the widowed Mrs. Thompson, who had moved with\n         Leslie H. Gray to Brooklyn, New York. These letters describe\n         and contrast city life in New York at the turn of the century,\n         including famous city personages such as Frederick Dent Grant,\n         eldest son of Ulysses S. Grant, with Southern rural society\n         with its traditions and memories of the Lost Cause. The\n         Thompsons sold \"Walnut Hills\" around 1930. Florence Thomspon\n         died in 1944, her husband died a year later.","The manuscript series dating from 1884 to 1911 includes\n         several memorandum books kept by the Thompsons recording\n         letters mailed and attendance at local dances. There are some\n         recollections of Neilia Cave Thompson about life in Civil War\n         Virginia, several unsigned stories, and a few humorous\n         political anecdotes.","The financial papers, spanning the years 1860 to 1918,\n         regard the younger Thompson's business transactions in\n         attempting to develop his farm. 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His letters to his wife discuss his\n         political activities. He seems to have passed away in the\n         later 1870's.","Most of the correspondence between 1870 and 1918 concerns\n         the younger John P. Thompson, his mother, and his wife,\n         Florence Kemper Thompson. The letters trace Thompson's early\n         wide-ranging attempts to establish himself in business and his\n         search for a bride in places ranging from San Francisco to New\n         York City. In 1899 Thompson married Florence Kemper, owner of\n         \"Walnut Hills\" in Orange County, Virginia. She had inherited\n         this small estate of her father, Confederate general and\n         Virginia governor James L. Kemper, upon his death in 1895. The\n         couple remained childless. The remaining correspondence\n         concerns Thompson's efforts to change \"Walnut Hills\" from a\n         simple home into a summer resort and develop the farming\n         business by expanding into raising bulls and steers. Much of\n         the correspondence is personal correspondence between the\n         Thompsons and the widowed Mrs. Thompson, who had moved with\n         Leslie H. Gray to Brooklyn, New York. These letters describe\n         and contrast city life in New York at the turn of the century,\n         including famous city personages such as Frederick Dent Grant,\n         eldest son of Ulysses S. Grant, with Southern rural society\n         with its traditions and memories of the Lost Cause. The\n         Thompsons sold \"Walnut Hills\" around 1930. 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Thompson, Jr. (1967-1945), and his wife\n         Florence Kemper Thompson (1859-1944), daughter of Confederate\n         general and Virginia governor James Lawson Kemper.","The correspondence series, dating from 1862 to 1918,\n         consists of personal and financial correspondence. John P.\n         Thompson, Sr., a native of Owensboro, Kentucky, joined the\n         Confederate army in 1861 and was commissioned a Captain\n         commanding Company G, 1st Kentucky Cavalry. He went with his\n         regiment to Manassas Junction, Virginia to join Confederate\n         forces there under Joseph E. Johnston. When Union troops under\n         Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant seized Paducah, Kentucky,\n         to counter a Confederate thrust into the then-neutral Blue\n         Grass state, Thompson and his company petitioned Confederate\n         president Jefferson Davis to let them return to defend their\n         native state. Davis refused their petition, claiming that\n         Confederate forces in Virginia were too small to allow a\n         further reduction of strength. After a year's service in the\n         Eastern theater, Thompson was promoted to Major and sent home\n         to Kentucky in 1863 to recruit new members for the regiment.\n         He was captured behind enemy lines at Owensboro and sentenced\n         to be shot as a spy, but Confederate authorities intervened\n         and got the sentence reduced to imprisonment at Johnson's\n         Island, Sanduscky, Ohio, where he remained until the close of\n         the war. While in prison he corresponded with Neilia Cave of\n         Orange, Virginia, a girl he had met while stationed there with\n         his regiment. Thompson returned to Orange, and married Neilia;\n         their son, also named John P. Thompson, was born in 1867. The\n         elder Thompson returned to Kentucky to engage in politics on\n         the Democratic side. His letters to his wife discuss his\n         political activities. He seems to have passed away in the\n         later 1870's.","Most of the correspondence between 1870 and 1918 concerns\n         the younger John P. Thompson, his mother, and his wife,\n         Florence Kemper Thompson. The letters trace Thompson's early\n         wide-ranging attempts to establish himself in business and his\n         search for a bride in places ranging from San Francisco to New\n         York City. In 1899 Thompson married Florence Kemper, owner of\n         \"Walnut Hills\" in Orange County, Virginia. She had inherited\n         this small estate of her father, Confederate general and\n         Virginia governor James L. Kemper, upon his death in 1895. The\n         couple remained childless. The remaining correspondence\n         concerns Thompson's efforts to change \"Walnut Hills\" from a\n         simple home into a summer resort and develop the farming\n         business by expanding into raising bulls and steers. Much of\n         the correspondence is personal correspondence between the\n         Thompsons and the widowed Mrs. Thompson, who had moved with\n         Leslie H. Gray to Brooklyn, New York. These letters describe\n         and contrast city life in New York at the turn of the century,\n         including famous city personages such as Frederick Dent Grant,\n         eldest son of Ulysses S. Grant, with Southern rural society\n         with its traditions and memories of the Lost Cause. The\n         Thompsons sold \"Walnut Hills\" around 1930. Florence Thomspon\n         died in 1944, her husband died a year later.","The manuscript series dating from 1884 to 1911 includes\n         several memorandum books kept by the Thompsons recording\n         letters mailed and attendance at local dances. There are some\n         recollections of Neilia Cave Thompson about life in Civil War\n         Virginia, several unsigned stories, and a few humorous\n         political anecdotes.","The financial papers, spanning the years 1860 to 1918,\n         regard the younger Thompson's business transactions in\n         attempting to develop his farm. Other financial papers concern\n         \"Walnut Hills,\" including guest lists and typewritten drafts\n         of descriptive brochures, and Thompson's bulls.","The printed material series, from 1898 to 1928, consists\n         mainly of advertisements for farm machinery and fashions.\n         There are several medical periodicals, a play program, and\n         postcards and printed brochures about \"Walnut Hills.\" Several\n         unidentified photographs are located at the end of the\n         collection."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee the \n            \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.library.virginia.edu/policies/use-of-materials\"\u003e\n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use 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