Son of Malachi Thompson and Nellie Sellers. Married Florida Sweat in Baker County, Florida on July 29, 1902....the license has his name as simply "Bud Thompson". They traveled from place to place with their children in north Florida and South Georgia. When he worked, it was for the railroad or turpentine stills. He was a large man enjoying merriment, food and drink first in his life. While in South GA in 1916, the couple had 5 daughters taken from them by the state as Silas failed to support his family while his wife was dying from childbirth. His wife Florida didn't die, but the five daughters were taken to a State Home in Atlanta and then placed foster homes. Unable to regain custody of the daughters, the couple with remaining three children returned to Florida where three more children were born. Silas died in his sleep one cold winter night leaving a poor uneducated widow to support several young children by herself in the hardships of Great Depression. In an interview with the son of the grave digger who witnessed Silas' funeral, it was learned that the family didn't have the money for the casket so Silas was just wrapped in an old quilt. The family doesn't even have a photo of this man nor was his grave ever marked with a headstone. His children only have these memories and their saddened hearts. He was buried next to his parents. His wife was buried in St. Augustine, FL along with many of their adult children and their families.

Children born to the union of Silas and Florida Sweat Thompson:

Louise was adopted by the Grant family of Atlanta, married, had one daughter Barbara, and died before the reunion with her sisters.

The newborn infant Anita born 1916 was never found, she was "adopted" and according to rumor taken to California.

The other children have relationship links.