Family Group Record


Husband: Alexander Thompson 1
Born: 1739 Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died: BET. 1808 - 1815 Place: Madison/Elbert County, Georgia 2
Married: MAR 1760 Place: Carlyle, Cumberland, Pennsylvania 3
Buried: Place: Thompsons Mill, GMD 382, Madison, Georgia
Father: James Jimmie Thompson
Mother: Ruth Alexander
Other Spouses:
Wife: Elizabeth\Mary Hodge 4
Born: BET. 1742 - 1745 Place: North Carolina
Died: BET. 1808 - 1820 Place: Elbert County, Georgia
Buried: Place: Thompsons Mill, GMD 382, Madison, Georgia
Father: William Hodge
Mother:
Other Spouses:
Children

Child 1 (F): Ruth Thompson 5
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Spouses: Henry Strickland
Child 2 (F): Sarah Sallie Thompson 6
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Spouses: David Robinson
Child 3 (M): Alexander Thompson
Born: 1771 Place: 7
Died: 1845 Place: 8
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Spouses: Eunice Strickland
Child 4 (M): Robert Thompson 9
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Spouses: Nancy Saye
Child 5 (F): Esther Thompson 10
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Spouses: William Langford
Child 6 (M): John Thompson 11
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Child 7 (F): Mary Thompson
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Child 8 (M): James Sr. Thompson 12
Born: ABT. 1763 Place: North Carolina
Died: AFT. 1850 Place: Madison, Georgia
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Spouses: Sarah Sally Saye
Child 9 (M): William Thompson 13
Born: 31 AUG 1781 Place: Burke County, North Carolina 14
Died: 10 SEP 1854 Place: Madison County, Georgia
Buried: Place: New Hope Church, Comer, Madison, Georgia
Spouses: Nancy Tillman
HUSBAND NOTES:
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!MILITARY: DAR Application #689260 for Jesse May Anderson Branyon for DAR membership based Alexander Thompson. Alexander Thompson was in the battle of Kings Mountain and was wounded in the head. There is record of his military service in the records of the Georgia Secretary of State. In later life he lived in Pike County, Mississippi.

!BIRTH-DEATH-CHILDREN-SPOUSE: DAR Application 689260.

!BURIAL: The Madison County Heritage Foundation, MADISON COUNTY CEMETERY BOOK, 1986, page 136.

!CHILDREN: Letter from Jan McChesney, 21 Lilly Pond Road, Barrington, New Hampshire 03825 dated 29 May 1996.

!SPOUSE-BIRTH-CHILDREN: Borderbund World Family Tree CD ROM Collection, Volume 6, Volume 9 File 3529.

!PARENTS-SPOUSE-CHILDREN-BIRTH-DEATH-MILITARY: Calvin T. Floyd, THE THOMPSON FAMILY, June 1982, manuscript on file at the Madison County Library. Alexander Thompson and his sister and her husband, William McDavid, moved to Burke County, North Carolina. Alexander Thompson received land grants of 300 acres in North Carolina. In 1788 Alexander and William McDavid moved their families to Wilkes County, Georgia. In 1790 the Thompson family moved to South Broad River, that later became a part of Madison County, Georgia. This settlement was known as Thompson's Mill.

!BIRTH-DEATH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-SPOUSE-PARENTS-MILITARY: Broderbund World Family Tree CD ROM, Volume 4, file #3752. Alexander Thompson, Sr. fought in the battle of Kings Mountain. A man named Griffith was shot and when Alexander Thompson stopped to help him a ball struck him in the forehead passed over his head under the scalp and came out at the back of his head leaving a scar where hair was prevented from growing. (From: HISTORY OF PIKE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI 1798-1876, by L. W. Conerly). Alexander Thompson and Solomon Strickland (father of his daughter in law) are listed as receiving land warrants as Revolutionary Soldiers. He was given land in Wilkes County, Georgia between 1783 and 1785 (History of Georgia and Georgia's People, by George G. Smith, page 623 & 640). See also DAR #54539.

!PROBATE: The will of Alexander Thompson is recorded in Book L-F, pages 136-137 records of Elbert County, Georgia.



HUSBAND FACTS:
TITL RS:
Military: Revolutionary Soldier 15, 16, 17, 18


WIFE NOTES:
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!BIRTH-DEATH-CHILDREN-SPOUSE: DAR Application 689260 for Jesse May Anderson Branyon based on service record of Alexander Thompson.

!SPOUSE-CHILDREN-BIRTH-DEATH: Borderbund World Family Tree CD ROM Collection, Volume 6, Volume 9 File 3529.

!PARENTS-SPOUSE-CHILDREN-BIRTH-DEATH: Calvin T. Floyd, THE THOMPSON FAMILY, June 1982, manuscript on file at the Madison County Library.

!BURIAL: The Madison County Heritage Foundation, MADISON COUNTY CEMETERY BOOK, 1986, page 136.



SOURCES:
1Memoirs of Georgia, Volume II, The Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia 1895, Book, page 482.
2Mrs. Howard H. McCall, Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, Volume I, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland 1968, Book, page 166, states death date as 1808.
3Mrs. Howard H. McCall, Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, Volume I, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland 1968, Book, page 166.
4Memoirs of Georgia, Volume II, The Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia 1895, Book, page 482.
5Mrs. Howard H. McCall, Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, Volume I, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland 1968, Book, page 166.
6Mrs. Howard H. McCall, Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, Volume I, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland 1968, Book, page 166.
7Mrs. Howard H. McCall, Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, Volume I, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland 1968, Book, page 166.
8Mrs. Howard H. McCall, Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, Volume I, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland 1968, Book, page 166.
9Mrs. Howard H. McCall, Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, Volume I, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland 1968, Book, page 166.
10Mrs. Howard H. McCall, Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, Volume I, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland 1968, Book, page 166.
11Mrs. Howard H. McCall, Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, Volume I, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland 1968, Book, page 166.
12Mrs. Howard H. McCall, Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, Volume I, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland 1968, Book, page 166.
13Memoirs of Georgia, Volume II, The Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia 1895, Book, page 482.
14Memoirs of Georgia, Volume II, The Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia 1895, Book, page 482.
15Memoirs of Georgia, Volume II, The Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia 1895, Book, page 482.
16Mrs. Howard H. McCall, Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, Volume II, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland 1968, Book, page 118.
17Mrs. Howard H. McCall, Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, Volume I, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland 1968, Book, page 166.
18Mrs. Howard H. McCall, Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, Volume III, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland 1968, Book, page 224.


Posted By:
Tommy Bargeron
721 West 12th Street
Tifton, Georgia 31794

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