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THOMPSON
The Thompson family originally came from Canada. Andrew Thompson was of Irish descent and his Canadian home was a farm near Meaford, Ontario. His moving to the States came about in the early 1880's when he came to Pickford as a young man and with his mother, settled on a farm two and one-half miles north of Pickford. This farm is known as the Rowse farm.
Mary Desette Smith came to Pickford with her first husband, George Smith, in the 1870's, and they took up a homestead on what is now known as the Thompson homestead, located four miles north and one mile west of the village. Three daughters were born to the Smiths.
George Smith died before the homestead was proved and his wife had to support three daughters and finish up the homestead claim. After a few yeat~s, about 1885, Mary and Andrew Thompson met and weR soon man and wife. JOHN S. was born in 1888; LORN in 1891; LOTTIE (Seyl~our, wbo lives in Charlevoix) in 1894; CECIL R. in 1898 (who died of the flu epidemic while in the Army at Fort Riley, Kansas, in 1918; and HULDA (Cross) in 1908, who lives in Charlevoix and and whose husband is a commercial fisherman.
The couple moved ftom the homestead to a farm, now the home of Norman Thompson, and after a few years there, purchased the home now owned by Roland Hill, Jr., and moved to Pickford for retirement. Andrew died in 1923, as did Mildred, a granddaughter. Mary died in 1938 following an operation.
JOHN S. married Martha Leach born Nov. 18, 1893) and they had five chifdren: Morrell, Mildred (deceased), Shirley, Cecil (Pete), and Geraldine. John Thompson purchased the lot where the school first stood and built a Ford garage in 1928, operated today by his sons, Morrell and Cecil. He died in 1946 at the age of 58 and Mrs. Martha Thompson still lives in her home up and across from the garage.
Morrell married Leila Shoberg and they have four children: Barbara, Lyndean, Don, and Steven. rre Barbaramatried Carl Hanna and they have one son, Brian*, and live in Pickford. Lyndean married Daryl Bosely and has one son, Michael Todd*. Don married Trinda Harrison and they live in Traverse City with their children, Robin, Steve, and Sarah*. Steven is married and working with his father.
Cecil married Mona Jean Staley and they have four boys: David, Gene, Jack, gnd Larry. Gene married Jane Moore and their children are Wendy Sue and Debbie Marie*. Jack married Marcia Smale and they are both teaching in Cedarville. David married Linda Galer and their daughters are Candy Lynn and Cherri Marie*. Larry is a student at Alma College.
Shirley married Robert Stevenson and they live in Hawaii with their four children: Robert,Jr., Cheryle, Mary Sue, and William Malden. Geraldine married Rudy Nayback and is a nurse at War Memorial Hospital. Their six childen are Cynthia, Janis, Ruth Ann, Linda, Ronnie, and Paul.
LORN THOMPSON married Bessie O'Brien (born Mar. 2, 1903) and they had 12 children: Otto, Norman,Milford (deceased), John, Beatrice (Mrs. Ronald McDonald), Mary (Mrs. Jim Wellington), Thelma (Mrs. Norman Wood), Roy (deceased), Loran Smith, Ethel (Mrs. Roger Gill), Howard, and a baby who died in infancy. Lorn farmed all his life and also did a lot of trapping. They lived where their son, Norman, lives, until theypurchased a farm two miles north and three-quarters mile west of Pickford, where they still reside today.
WALKER
Robert Walker left Belfast, Ireland, in 1831 after the Second Potato Famine. He was a hand cloth weaver by trade. He came to Goderich, Ontario, where he married and homesteaded 100 acres. From this marriage came nine children, with Robert, Jr., the second youngest. After Robert, Sr.'s wife died, leaving him broke, he heard of free land south of Sault Ste. Marie, Michtgan. He settled on the south bank of the Munuscong at Kelden. Thete he raised the three youngest children, Thomas, Robert, Jr., and William. He earned a living cradling grain and scything hay from Kelden to Hay Lake between the tree stumps. He died in 1902 and is buried in Bethel Cemetery.
ROBERT, JR., grew up and went to the Saginaw Valley where he worked in the woods and on the river. He then went to work in the harvest fields following the threshing crew from Kansas to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. He went back to his old hometown in Canada and met and married Margaret Kennedy. From this marriage came 7 children: Martha, William, Albert, Ethel, John, Harold, and Grace. They settled in Kelden in 1879 and in 1908 moved to a farm one and one-half miles south of Pickford. There he farmed till 1922. He then drove the mail from Pickford, Cedarville, and Hessel for 12 years and from Pickford to the Sault for 4 years. He was a member of the Pickford Presbyterian Church, the Masons, and the Orange Lodge. Robert Walker died in October, 1948, and Margaret in February, 1958.
Martha mairied George Portice and had three children: Elsie, Junior, and Irene. Elsie works at the War Memorial Hospital. Junior married Helen Cruickshank and their children are George, Robert, Nancy, Linda, and Tommy. Irene married David Martin and their children are Donna and David.
William married Rosila Dunbar and their children are Emma, Phyllis, Bob, and Bill.
Albert married Marion McKenzie and had one son, Lloyd. Lloyd is married and has three boys, William, Jack, and Albert*. He works in the prison at Jacksson.
Ethel married Jim Portice and had three children: Margaret, Cecil, and Roberta. Margaret married Curtis Boylen and their children are Alice, Jimmy, and Bruce*. Cecil married Arlene Wice and their children are Mary Jean, Jimmy, and Calvin*. Roberta married Calvin Hall and theit children are Robert, Randy, and Joyce*.
Harold married Julia Zwolinski and they have two daughters, Delores and Valarie. Delores married Raymond Dodds and their two daughters are Kerry Kathleen* (Mts. Cary Hipps) and Donna* (Mrs. Jack Donnelly). The Donnelleys have a daughter, Jennifer Lynn**. Valarie is married to William Sanderson.
Grace married Wesley Eveleigh (deceased) and they have two children.
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