Daniel Converse Thompson

Written by :  Doris Howard

10:40 AM (5 hours ago)

Daniel Converse Thompson is our children’s 3rd great grandfather and lived from 1817 through the turn of the century.  Because Daniel and Hannah made many moves I was fascinated reading about them on the census reports.   

The 1840 census shows Hannah Fiske in Cheshire County, New Hampshire where she is married to Daniel Converse Thompson, our 2nd great grandparents.  By 1841 they are farming in New York with a first child born, Sarah Jane born in 1841.  Four more children are born in New York state. Their 2nd child, Daniel W. is born in 1843,Charles in 1844, Mary Phelena in 1847 and Alice Elvira in 1849.   

Hannah and Daniel are farming in Wyoming New York and have 5 children.  It is a countryside of rolling hills, hardwood forests good for dairy farmers.  Daniel and Hannah have heard of the rich farmland in the Midwest of the country and sometime between 1850 and 1852 they move to Illinois.  Here is where our great grandmother Roseanne Thompson is born. 

On 1870 census, Daniel is a 53 year old farmer living in Iowa.  Hannah is 53.  Our great grandmother Roseanna is 18.  Hannah dies in 1873 in Guthrie County, Iowa. And in 1877, Daniel remarries to Stella Shephard and has more children with his wife Stella. 

On the 1900 census,Daniel is 82.  He can read and write.  His second wife, Stella is 49.  His home is mortgage free.  He has 14 children.  He has lived an active life, moving many times with a large family.   Daniel Thompson has farmed in 3 states; New York, Iowa and New Hampshire.   On February 28, 1904, Daniel dies.  

Stuart was founded as a small Quaker community, situated on a high point where prairie and timberlands meet.  Daniel Converse Thompson, age 86 is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Stuart, Guthrie County, Iowa.