Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

Thompson MACKEY, farming, Sec. 7; P. O. Joliet; the subject of this sketch was born in 
Columbiana Co., Ohio, June 14, 1824. He married Miss Sarah SPROULE Aug. 31, 1852; she was 
born in Hancock Co., West Va.; they had eight children, five living, viz., Edgar S., Flora 
J., James E., Adam W. and Bellella. He lived in Ohio about nineteen years on the farm; he 
then followed steamboating on the Ohio and Mississippi for about nineteen years; he then 
came to Illinois and settled on his present place. He has been Assessor and Road Commissioner 
a number of years each.