{"id":996,"date":"2015-09-21T22:20:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T03:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=996"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:38","slug":"george-w-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/george-w-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"THOMPSON, George W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GEORGE W. THOMPSON<\/strong>, one of the old and highly respected citizens of Bedford County, was the oldest son and second child of <strong>Newcom and Amy (Fisher) Thompson<\/strong>.\u00a0 He was born February 1, 1823, near Shelbyville, and was reared on a farm, his father being a wealthy farmer and manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of eighteen he engaged in the tanner&#8217;s trade, and continued till he was married, when he moved to Shelbyville and served as constable, then a lucrative office, for two years.\u00a0 He then ran a saw-mill for four years and also bought a large tract of timber land.\u00a0 He then returned to Shelbyville and served as constable or collecting officer again for four years.\u00a0 He then engaged in the family grocery business till 1861.\u00a0 During the war he was a Union man and was not engaged in any special avenue of business.\u00a0 In 1866 he was elected to the Legislature and attended the regular and call sessions of 1866 and of 1868.\u00a0 During this time, and ever since, he has been a farmer.<\/p>\n<p>He was married, May 18, 1843, to <strong>Martha M. Cannon<\/strong>, who bore him five children, three of whom are now living, viz.:\u00a0 <strong>Amy F.<\/strong>, the widow of <strong>C. A. Warren, Sr<\/strong>.; <strong>Letitia<\/strong>, the wife of <strong>C. A. Warren, Jr.<\/strong>, and <strong>Mollie G.<\/strong>\u00a0 Mrs. Thompson departed this life July 14, 1874.\u00a0 Mr. Thompson is a member of the Masonic fraternity and I. O. O. F.\u00a0\u00a0 Politically he is a firm Republican, and he is and always has been an enterprising and energetic citizen of Bedford County.<\/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>GEORGE W. THOMPSON, one of the old and highly respected citizens of Bedford County, was the oldest son and second child of Newcom and Amy (Fisher) Thompson.\u00a0 He was born February 1, 1823, near Shelbyville, and was reared on a farm, his father being a wealthy farmer and manufacturer. At the age of eighteen he &#8230; <a title=\"THOMPSON, George W.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/george-w-thompson\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about THOMPSON, George 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":[3333,3330,3334,3332,3336,3338,3329,3337,3335],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-cannon-martha-m","tag-fisher-amy","tag-thompson-amy-f","tag-thompson-george-w","tag-thompson-letitia","tag-thompson-mollie-g","tag-thompson-newcom","tag-warren-jr-c-a","tag-warren-sr-c-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","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=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}