Pony Express Rider. Thompson migrated with his family to St. Joseph, Missouri, when he was about fourteen years old. He described himself on an employment application as "Cyclone Thompson-- Ride anything." He served in the Civil War as a Confederate soldier. He was married twice, to Effie M. Miller, and second wife Matilda. From family history, he probably drank and was an old disreputable geezer a long time around St. Joseph. His obituary says he rode for one month while he was filling in for Johnny Fry who was sick. The route would have been from St. Joseph to Seneca, Kansas Territory. Also, at 16 he became an ox-team driver making trips to Colorado, Idaho and New Mexico. During the Civil War he fought for the South as an infantryman in Virginia. He seems to have farmed in several places in the area, but returned to St. Joseph permanently in 1898. (bio by B. Walker)
Pony Express Rider. Thompson migrated with his family to St. Joseph, Missouri, when he was about fourteen years old. He described himself on an employment application as "Cyclone Thompson-- Ride anything." He served in the Civil War as a Confederate soldier. He was married twice, to Effie M. Miller, and second wife Matilda. From family history, he probably drank and was an old disreputable geezer a long time around St. Joseph. His obituary says he rode for one month while he was filling in for Johnny Fry who was sick. The route would have been from St. Joseph to Seneca, Kansas Territory. Also, at 16 he became an ox-team driver making trips to Colorado, Idaho and New Mexico. During the Civil War he fought for the South as an infantryman in Virginia. He seems to have farmed in several places in the area, but returned to St. Joseph permanently in 1898. (bio by B. Walker)
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