Washington Job Thompson was born to William Thompson and Jane Adamson Wanlass Thompson October 15, 1890 in Wilson, Weber County, Utah. Washington's Father emigrated from Liverpool England February 18, 1856 on the ship "Caravan". He was 16 years old. He worked on a farm and saved enough money to help bring his family to America. Washington's father married Annie Shefford, they had 5 children. Annie died October 22, 1874. William later married Jane Adamson Wanlass November 22, 1875. Jane is Washington's' mother. Washington family lived on an eighty acre tract of sandy soil one half mile West and one fourth mile South of the present Wilson Ward Church House. Washington's father built a four room house for the family to live in. Washington was the eleventh child in what was eventually a family of 13 children. In 1900 his father bought a thirty-eight acre farm from a man named John Parson's which was four miles south of our home at Wilson in Kanesville. It was covered with sage brush and cost thirty dollars an acre. The sage had to be cleared which was done by hitching a teem to a railroad rail and dragging it over the sage to break it down. Then it was plowed with a sulky plow, pulled by three horses. My brothers would pull the sage out of the furrows, pile it in piles and burn it. This was an enjoyable pastime in the evenings when the neighbor came over to visit and the addition of a few potatoes brought out to roast in the fire with songs and stories made it a real evening.
They raised hay, grain, beets, fruit , sheep, pigs and chickens. His mother would sell the eggs together with homemade butter churned in the old dasher and she made cheese and pressed it in the old cheese press. Washington's mother Jane was taught to be a milk maid growing up. Eventually the family had milk cows and sold the milk. Washington assisted with all this work. Washington met and married Mabel Naomi Butler October 12, 1910 in the Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah. They had nine children.