Elizabeth Pugsley Thompson, who died at age 80, was the widow of the Hon. Jesse Thompson, justice of the peace, politician, and veteran of the American Revolutionary War. Born c.1755, she was the daughter of Stephen and Abigail Pugsley. According to some genealogical sources, she had been married to Judge Thompson, a maternal uncle of New York Governor and U.S. Congressman Enos Thompson Throop, for over 60 years, the couple having been wed in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1774. (Other sources give the date of their marriage as January 15, 1778.) The couple moved to the Auburn area in 1814 because two of their married daughters, Maria Thompson Wilcox and Elizabeth Thompson Graham, resided locally. Widowed in 1834, Mrs. Thompson survived her spouse by a little over a year, and was buried with him in the Powers-Hatch Family plot, where another U.S. Congressman, Gershom Powers, had been interred earlier. Also here are her sister-in-law, Abia Thompson Throop Hatch, mother of Governor Throop, and the Thompsons' daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Wilcox.
Elizabeth Pugsley Thompson, who died at age 80, was the widow of the Hon. Jesse Thompson, justice of the peace, politician, and veteran of the American Revolutionary War. Born c.1755, she was the daughter of Stephen and Abigail Pugsley. According to some genealogical sources, she had been married to Judge Thompson, a maternal uncle of New York Governor and U.S. Congressman Enos Thompson Throop, for over 60 years, the couple having been wed in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1774. (Other sources give the date of their marriage as January 15, 1778.) The couple moved to the Auburn area in 1814 because two of their married daughters, Maria Thompson Wilcox and Elizabeth Thompson Graham, resided locally. Widowed in 1834, Mrs. Thompson survived her spouse by a little over a year, and was buried with him in the Powers-Hatch Family plot, where another U.S. Congressman, Gershom Powers, had been interred earlier. Also here are her sister-in-law, Abia Thompson Throop Hatch, mother of Governor Throop, and the Thompsons' daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Wilcox.
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