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Karen
Thank you very much for all information.
According to your data Peter and christine had two children.
One was Hannah which you gave me some information about.
Who was the other children?
I have one interested article about the family:
Worthington Newspaper - Ruth Hein, Historical columnist, Wed., Oct 21, 1998
In June 1946, a "relic of a gun" found its way to the Nobles County Historical Society. It was brought there by Wallie T. Parker, son of Hannah Thompson Parker. The gun had been carried and owned by Peter Thompson for his protection from 1861 to 1862, before he came to Nobles County.
The 1836 handmade Buffalo ball and shot gun had been made 110 years before it was presented to the museum. A few pages of information penned by Hannah Parker are filed at the museum. It appears that her handwritten pages accompanied the gun.
Peter Thompson, a native of Sweden, was 11 when his parents brought him to America.
He became well known in the Worthington area, and much has been written about him. He married Christine Danielson at Carver on March 16, 1860. She had come to the United States with her mother in 1854 and they had located at Carver.
Peter Thompson came to Nobles County in September 1871 when he filed on the west one-half of the southeast quarter of section34 in Elk Township. It was the first filing recorded in that township.
Peter Thompson had been a merchant at Carver; a friend told him about the opportunities he saw at a new town site (to become Worthington), once the railroad reached that point. The Thompsons came to the proposed town site and from then on their story is familiar. They became active builders of Nobles County and of Worthington. He bought the first three lots on Ninth Street and on Third Avenue.
On April 12, 1872 he came back on the first regular freight train, brining Along several carloads of lumber and some carpenters to build a general store on Ninth Street.
That store, one of the very first business buildings in town, was known as the Thompson General Store for many years. In 1976, it was moved out to Pioneer Village.
But Thompson was not only a business man. He was also a husband and father and was very active in community and church affairs.
A little information about his years before Worthington is available from those pages later written by Hannah Thompson Parker; on of his daughters.
Hannah's words make us even more aware of her mother's earlier years, before their move to Worthington. These earlier experiences ar not included in newspaper articles and obituaries in the Thompson file at the museum.
.... In those filed pages, Hannah wrote that soon after her parents, Peter and Christine Thompson, were married, they went to make a home near Green Lake in Kandiyohi County, where they lived on a farm for two years, "until the Indian outbreak when the Siouz raided that part of the country, killed their cattle and hogs and massacred the settlers."
"Mr. Thompson (Hannah referred to her father that way in what she wrote) lost all he had. Mrs Thompson (Hannah's mother) lived in terror all the time as Indians often filled the house, begging."
"Mr. Thompson had a mastiff dog named Leo. (A mastiff is defined as a giant smooth-coated dof of a very old breed, originally used as a hunting dor or as a guard dog.) The Indians were afraid of Leo.
"Mrs. Thompson went to Carver near Shakopee on a visit. While she was there, a messenger came telling of the Inian outbreak. The women then spent the nights in preparation, making bullets." (They had returned to Carver after the attack at New London.)
Just a few years before the Sioux outbreak, "Mrs. Thompson had been in a high tower watching the fighting between the two tribes, the Sioux and the Chippewas, as they fought with bow and arrow, muzzle-loading guns and tomahawks. Chief Hole-in-the-Day led the attacking parties of Chippewas, and Lilltel Crow led the Sioux." Christine Thompson later told a gruesome tale of their actions.
Another incedent Hannah wrote about: "One day when Christine was walking on a small strip of land betweeen twin lakes near Wilmar, a band of Indians came near her. They threw rocks at her and into the water until she was soaked. She threw up her head, laughing, and walked on. Hannah's comment: "The Indians did not harm her (mother), perhaps because she showed no feaar, and bravery no doubt saved her life."
Best Regards
Krister Olsson, living in France
kolsson@free.fr
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