{"id":994,"date":"2015-09-21T22:18:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T03:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=994"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:38","slug":"john-w-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/john-w-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"THOMPSON, John W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JOHN W. THOMPSON,<\/strong> chairman of the county court of Bedford County, is a son of <strong>Newcom and Amy (Fisher) Thompson,<\/strong> natives of North Carolina.\u00a0 The parents moved to this county in about 1809.\u00a0 The father was a carpenter and he built the first houses of Shelbyville.\u00a0 He afterward engaged in fanning two and one-half miles west of Shelbyville and there raised his family and became wealthy, but the war involved him.\u00a0 He died in 1879 at the age of seventy-five.\u00a0 The mother died at eighty-one, in 1886.<\/p>\n<p>Our subject was born January 8, 1831, and was reared on a farm.\u00a0 He remained with his parents till April, 1846, when he engaged at clerking in a store.\u00a0 After several years he opened a family grocery trade which he continued until the war.\u00a0 During the war he was engaged in the Adams Express office at Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>In 1857 he was elected recorder of Shelbyville and held the office till 1866.\u00a0 In that year he was elected register of Bedford County.\u00a0 In 1868 he was appointed deputy circuit court clerk, which office he held till 1882.\u00a0 He was elected magistrate in 1870, and in 1882 was elected chairman of the court.\u00a0 He was mayor of Shelbyville from 1872 to 1877, having been an alderman for five years previous.\u00a0 He was elected recorder of Shelbyville, in 1885, without his knowledge or consent, and now holds that office.<\/p>\n<p>He was united in marriage, in December, 1849, to <strong>Miss M. J. Pannell;<\/strong> a native of this county\u00a0 Five children have been born to this union, four of whom are now living.\u00a0 For thirty years Mr. Thompson was a member of the I. O. O. F. He is now a member of the K. of H. and A. O. U. W. fraternities.<\/p>\n<p>Transcribed by Kathryn Hopkins<\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford &amp; Marshall Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminescences [Sic], Observations, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHN W. THOMPSON, chairman of the county court of Bedford County, is a son of Newcom and Amy (Fisher) Thompson, natives of North Carolina.\u00a0 The parents moved to this county in about 1809.\u00a0 The father was a carpenter and he built the first houses of Shelbyville.\u00a0 He afterward engaged in fanning two and one-half miles &#8230; <a title=\"THOMPSON, John W.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/john-w-thompson\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about THOMPSON, John W.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3330,3331,3142,3329],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-fisher-amy","tag-pannell-m-j","tag-thompson-john-w","tag-thompson-newcom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}