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From: "Jemima Gee Morse" <>
Subject: [VAMONTGO] THE JOHN AND WILLIAM THOMPSONS>VA
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 15:10:00 -0400

Joan Wheeler La Grone wrote June 18, 2000 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [THOMPSON-L] THOMPSON GRAVEYARD, MONTGOMERY CO., VA


> Hello,
> Who was the father of John who married Mary and did they come
from PA
> Thanks,
> Joan

Joan,
If you can find out, I'll dance at your wedding.
This John's son, Archibald, b. 1736, wrote in his diary "Farewell
Sweet Ireland Wherein I Was Bred." But where the family
disembarked is still unknown.
Thanks,
Jemima

>
>
>
> Jemima Gee Morse wrote:
> >
> > "Annette Limmer" <> wrote June 12, 2000
> > Subject: Re: [THOMPSON-L] THOMPSON GRAVEYARD, MONTGOMERY CO.,
VA
> >
> > > Did John and Mary Thompson also have a son named William?
> >
> > So far as I know John Thompson and Mary Unknown did not have
a
> > son named William. Births of their children are recorded in
> > Archibald Thompson's Diary, beginning with Anne, b. 1734.
> > Interestingly, "William" is not a common Christian name in
the
> > descendants.
> > I've wondered whether John's marriage to Mary could have
been a
> > second marriage, but I've been unable to connect him to the
other
> > Thompsons in Augusta, Montgomery or Tazewell areas.
> >
> > According to [probably Harman} Blickley, in his history of
> > Tazewell County, Va., a William Thompson, the first, had son
> > John and Archibald, by his first wife; and three or more sons
by
> > his second wife, "Lawyer James Thompson." William "Roan
Billie"
> > and Andrew. The latter, according to this excerpt, erected
the
> > tombstones that mark the grave of his father and the
> > graves of other kin in the Thompson family graveyard. One of
> > these stones
> > records the fact that William Thompson was born in the year
1722,
> > and died in
> > 1798; and another stone gives the date of the birth and death
of
> > "Lawyer James
> > Thompson."
> >
> > I believe the excerpt from the book on this family is
available
> > at the Tazewell Co., Va., RootsWeb or GenWeb site.
> >
> > I've always thought this Tazewell group connects somehow to
my
> > fifth great-grandfather, but can find nothing to prove it.
> >
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