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Karen Campbell
From:
Sent:
To:

Karen Campbell [campbeka@oplin.org]

Tuesday, March 23, 2004 4:04 PM

Subject:

Arabella Thompson

Martin Abrams

Dear Martin,

If Arabella was in a mental institution in Richmond, Indiana, perhaps

she ended up at Central State Hospital (Indianapolis)? There is an
excellent web s i t e online

for the records

of this institution a t this

address: http://www.in.gov/icpr/archives/featured/csh_aiin/chs_col2.html
(Indiana State Archives).

Also see,

http://www.in.gov/icpr/archives/featured/csh_aiin/csh_data.html, a
description of the Commitment Records Database Index. All medical
records dating from 1920 to the present are CONFIDENTIAL.
However, you
might be under the limitation.
You can e-mail them to see if you can
get access to her records.
These kinds of records are very detailed.
If you can get them, they will help you a lot!1
Information about the Richmond State Hospital is on page:

http://www.in.gov/icpr/archives/featured/ csh_aiin/csh_hosp.html,
towards the end of the web page.

Have you found her obituary?

Yours,

Karen Campbell, Genealogy Librarian

The Mary L. Cook Public Library
381 Old Stage Road
Waynesville, Ohio 45068
campbeka0oplin.org
Original Message
From: Martin Abrams [mailto:abramsml0yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 6:39 PM
To: Karen Campbell
Subject: RE: genealogy request-Thompson
Thanks

Karen

I got my info from my 2nd cousin who is the source of

the info on FamilySearch.org.

I dont know where she

got it and she's not great at returning emails.

It

looks like it was info from Arabella Thompson Burkey's

death certificate but that's just a guess.

I could send you copies of the marriage certificate

for her daughter Edith, in which Arabella gave some of
the same info, but i
already.

did include a lot of that

Part of the problem, i would guess, is that we dont

seem to know how long this family resided in your
county.
20 years? 6 months? 3 weeks?
I never thought about Kaus being Kraus.
I

dont

know their church.

Peter Burkey was a drop out from the Dunkers, which

are an off shoot of the Mennonites.

Somerset co,

PA .

He came from

in 1870 he was still in PA.

1

over

the next 10 years he seems to have moved to Muncie IN,

married, had 2 or 3 kids, was widowed , and remarried
to Arabella by 1880.
The name changed to Burkey, for
some reason I

to IN,

as i

dont

know.

am not sure when he moved

cant find him in the 1880 census.

I have

never seen anything that suggested Peter Burkey lived

in Ohio,

and I

dont know

how or when Peter and

Arabella met.

Arabella died in 1920 in a mental institution in

Richmond IN.
I dont know the name or i f i t s t i l l

exists or if i t has merged into a new name etc. Partly

because of that stigma and because most of the family
had moved to CA,

not much is known about her.

The names of her kids were Harold Benton Burkey, Frank

Jacob (my grandfather), Harry Everett, Clara, Margaret
Luella, Edith.
None of these names seem to come from

the Burkey/Berkey line, except maybe Jacob.

they come from the Thompson line.

Maybe

so...i know lots of stuff on my family, but when it

comes to this corner of my history i am really
stumped.
i was (and am still) hoping to get a couple
of solid leads.

Let me know if i can come up with something else.

Thank you for all your time so far.
Martin Abrams

Fremont,

CA

Karen Campbell <campbeka0oplin.org> wrote:

Dear Martin,
All I

have been able to find is

far

is a

reference

to an Annabelle Thompson,

the daughter of Thornton and Catherine Ann Hitesman

Thompson of Butlerville,
Ohio, Warren Co.
This Annabelle was their second
child out of eight
> children.
It says that Annabelle died early.
I
> don't think these are your

people. I found this on page 91 of the Centennial

Atlas of Warren County,
Ohio, 1903.

I found four Thompson families mention in the Beer's

1883 Warren County,
Ohio History, pp. 784-5, but, none of them seem to
match up with the people

you mention. No Annabelle (or any variant of her

name)

is mentioned.

None

of them are married to the right person.

Thompsons mentioned are:

The

Joseph H. Thompson, William D. Thompson, William M.

Thompson and John S.
Thompson.

We have some Thompsons in our vertical files: Mrs.

Hugh Thompson, d. Oct.
29th, 1900, Infant of Hugh Thompson buried March 22,
1900, Theodore Thompson
2

d. July 26, 1898, Miss Mary Thompson of Waynesville

married to Sidney A.
Manuel, of Centerville June 29, 1895 by Squire J. G.
Keys and some marriage
announcements dating from the 1940s that I don't
think apply.
I went through some census information.
plenty of Thompson
families

in Warren Co.

but none

There are

seem to connect.

Are you sure you have the

names correct?

Could "Thurman" be incorrect?

Is

"Kaus" perhaps "Kraus"?

I looked in Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of American

Quaker Genealogy since this
was such a large Quaker area.
There were no Quaker
Thompson with your first
> names.
Do you know what church Thurman and Mary
> Kaus Thompson and Annabelle

and Peter Burkey belonged to? Do you know if they

owned property in Warren
Co., before moving to Indiana? Do you know when she
and/or her family moved
to Indiana?

Is there any other information you can give me?

Yours,

Karen S. Campbell, Genealogy Librarian

The Mary L. Cook Public Library
381 Old Stage Road

> Waynesville, Ohio 45068

> campbeka@oplin.org
>

>
>
>
>
>

Original Message
From: Linda Swartzel [mailto:swartzli@oplin.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:35 AM
To: campbeka@oplin.org
Subject: FW: genealogy request

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Original Message
From: Martin Abrams [mailto:abramsml@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:02 AM
To: swartzli@oplin.org
Subject: genealogy request

>
>
>

hello

>
>

I dont know your name, but I will guess Linda or

>

Lisa

>

Swartz.

>

>

Please pass this genealogy request on to the

appropriate person, as per website of the Warren

>

OhGen web page

>

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>

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>

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the Genealogy Librarian will spend an hour looking

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and through genealogical resources that are located

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in

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The Ohioana Room. Those finding will be communicated

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> REQUESTS FOR COPIES: The Genealogy Librarian will be

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> Thank you

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http://www.familvsearch.org/
Pedigree

Aurel Belle THOMPSON (AFN: 1815-H8L)

Sex: F

Famllv

Event(s):
Birth:

27 Mar 1860

Mason, Warren, Ohio

Death: 26 Jul 1920

Richmond, Delaware, Indiana

Parents:

Father: Thurman THOMPSON (AFN: 1815-H66)

Mother: Mary KAUS (AFN: 1815-H7D)

Family

Marriage(s):

Spouse: Peter BURKEY (AFN: 1816-NSW)

Family

Marriage: 4 Jun 1881

Thurman THOMPSON (AFN: 1815-H66)

Pedigree

Sex: M

Family

Event(s):
Birth: Abt. 1834

,, Ohio

Mary KAUS (AFN: 1815-H7D)

Pedigree

Sex: F

Family

Event(s):
Birth: Abt. 1838

, , Ohio

MARY L. COOK PUBLJC LIBRARY

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March 22, 2004

Dear ResearcherA^olunteer

Thank you for all the time you put in for the benefit of people who are researching in
Mason county, particularly people like myself who are unable to travel in person to your
resources.

I am looking for any information on the origins of my great grandmother, Aurel Belle
Thompson, that youcan provide. I have enclosed a littlebit on her, such as her parents
but this information is very sketchy. As you can see. Mason, Warren Co is listed as her
birthplace.

Aurel Belle is also spelledArabella, Arabelle, Belle, Bella and a host of misspellings. 1
generally use Arabella as the preferred spelling.

There is also a family in Monroe, Ohio at aboutthe same time with Albert Thompson and
Rachel MalindaCrago Thompson. Their family includes a son named Thurman
Thompson, bl860 and a daughter named Arabella, bl870. Arabella didnot show up in
the 1880 census so its possible she passed away. So far, I have not beenable to linkthis
family with my family, so maybe it's a major coincidence, butis very tempting to think
there is a relationship.

The only other evidence I have is an Aug 5,1916 Delaware co, IN marriage certificate
(#210) for Edith L Burkey, in which Arabella Burkey signs for herdaughter and lists
Mason, Ohio as her birthplace. She signed as Belle. The clerkmisspelled her as
Aurahbele.

After her marriage to PeterBurkey/Berkey in 1881 in Muncie, IN, I have considerable

information on her, mainly with regards to her children.

I would be interested in anynew information that you or yourvolunteers can find or even
information that corroborates what I already have.
Martin Abrams

1907 Lockwood Ave

Fremont, CA 94539
abramsml@vahoo.com

510 651-9616

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