John Theophilus THOMPSON & Mary NEWCOMB

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John Theophilus THOMPSON
Mary NEWCOME

Husband: John Theophilus THOMPSON
Birth: 7 Dec 1759, MD
Death: 10 Apr 1826, Shelbyville, Bedford Co., TN
Father: Richard THOMPSON (1723- )
Mother: Mary __?__ (1724- )

Marriage: 1781

Wife: Mary NEWCOME / NEWCOM
Birth: 6 Jul 1762, Frederick Co., MD
Death: 10 Apr 1826, Shelbyville, Bedford Co., TN

John and Mary died on the same day? Was it an accident? Murder-suicide?

Children:

1. Samuel THOMPSON, b. 1780s, MD or NC; m1. 16 May 1807, Orange Co., NC, Nancy TRICE; m2. Mary __?__
2. Joseph THOMPSON, prob. b. 1780-1804, MD or NC
3. Newcom THOMPSON, b. 27 Dec 1804, Orange Co., NC; d. 8 Sep 1879, Bedford Co., TN; m. 6 Jul 1820, Bedford Co., TN, Annie FISHER

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Comments:

There are two family group sheets for these parents currently in the LDS Ancestral File. One family group sheet has our subjects' son, Samuel, married to Matilda BRADLEY in Christian Co., KY, in 1806; the other family group sheet has Samuel married to Polly BAIRD in 1799, with no location given. A search reveals that the marriage to Polly BAIRD took place in Shelby Co., KY.

I see no indication that our subjects ever lived in Kentucky, so it is very unlikely that either of the Samuel THOMSONs married in KY is our subjects' son. Our subjects' migration route was from Maryland to Orange Co., NC, to Bedford Co., TN. A check of the 1850 census of Bedford Co., TN, shows dozens of THOMPSONs, including several Samuel's and even a Theophilus. The family clearly settled there, not in KY (much less, IL). I found four Samuel THOMPSON marriages in Orange Co., NC, which are much more likely possibilities than the two marriages in Kentucky. One file online at WorldConnect seems to have a handle on this family, and they show Samuel married first to Nancy TRICE (and second, to a Mary __?__), which is highly plausible.

Sources (n.b., Bedford Co., TN, was formed in 1807 from Rutherford Co.):

1a. Jordan R. Dodd, ed. 1993. Kentucky Marriages: Early to 1850. Liahona Research, Orem, UT (Broderbund CD-229):

Thompson, Samuel Baird, Polly 16 May 1799 Shelby Co.

Thompson, Samuel Bradley, Matilda 29 Sep 1806 Christian Co.

1b. Jordan R. Dodd, ed. 1993. North Carolina Marriages: Early to 1850. Liahona Research, Orem, UT (Broderbund CD-229):

Thompson, Samuel McMullen, Jane 10 May 1794 Orange Co.

Thompson, Samuel Woods, Rebecca 6 Jul 1798 Orange Co.

Thompson, Samuel Trice, Nancy 16 May 1807 Orange Co.

Thompson, Samuel Allen, Nancy 26 Oct 1810 Orange Co.

2. LDS. Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service: IGI - International Genealogical Index and AF - Ancestral File (online at FamilySearch.org).

3. WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com).

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