Walter Coke Thompson's grandfather, William Thompson, married Nancy Bacon and they moved from Missouri to Texas. They had several children, and he died there in Texas near what later would become the town of Sherman. She later married Uriah Burns, and they had one son, Coke Burns. Then they signed off on their land claim and together with her children from her first marriage, they came by ox-drawn wagon to California.

Nancy Bacon Thompson Burns.
Born September 25, 1805
in St. Louis, Missouri.
Died February 5, 1886
in King City, California.
(Burns family pictures courtesy of Norman Atkins, Visalia, California.)


Uriah Burns
Coke Burns

 

Pleasant Thompson and his wife, Sarah Hamilton Thompson, came to California on the wagon train with the rest of his family and Uriah, Nancy and Coke Burns. (Sarah's picture courtesy of Norm Atkins, Visalia, California.) Read Pleasant Thompson's obituary here.

Hardy Thompson also came on the wagon train. He met Mary Emerine Hendrix at his brother Pleasant's ranch near King City, California where she was teaching school. They married there and moved to Monterey.


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