A veteran of the American Revolutionary War, politician, and justice of the peace, "The Hon. Jesse Thompson" died "in the 84th year of his age". According to some genealogical sources, he was the son of Enos and Sarah (nee Hitchcock) Thompson, and had been born in New Haven, Connecticut, where he married Elizabeth Pugsley in 1774. (Other sources give the marriage date as January 15, 1778.) The couple moved to the Auburn area in 1814 because two of their married daughters, Maria Wilcox and Elizabeth Graham, resided locally. A maternal uncle of New York Governor and U.S. Congressman Enos Thompson Throop, Judge Thompson was interred in the Powers-Hatch Family plot beside another political relative, U.S. Congressman Gershom Powers, who had died 3 years earlier. The Judge's widow, their daughter Maria Thompson Wilcox, and his sister, Abia Thompson Throop Hatch were also interred here after their deaths.
A veteran of the American Revolutionary War, politician, and justice of the peace, "The Hon. Jesse Thompson" died "in the 84th year of his age". According to some genealogical sources, he was the son of Enos and Sarah (nee Hitchcock) Thompson, and had been born in New Haven, Connecticut, where he married Elizabeth Pugsley in 1774. (Other sources give the marriage date as January 15, 1778.) The couple moved to the Auburn area in 1814 because two of their married daughters, Maria Wilcox and Elizabeth Graham, resided locally. A maternal uncle of New York Governor and U.S. Congressman Enos Thompson Throop, Judge Thompson was interred in the Powers-Hatch Family plot beside another political relative, U.S. Congressman Gershom Powers, who had died 3 years earlier. The Judge's widow, their daughter Maria Thompson Wilcox, and his sister, Abia Thompson Throop Hatch were also interred here after their deaths.
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