{"id":998,"date":"2015-09-21T22:24:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T03:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=998"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:38","slug":"thomas-c-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/thomas-c-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"THOMPSON, Thomas C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THOMAS C. THOMPSON<\/strong> was born February 8, 1848, in Bedford County, Tenn., son of <strong>W. F. and Harriet P. (Hall) Thompson<\/strong>.\u00a0 The father was a native of North Carolina, born September 9, 1816, and of English descent.\u00a0 The mother was of Irish descent, and by her union with <strong>W. F. Thompson<\/strong> she became the mother of four children.\u00a0 She died in 1850, and in 1857 the father married <strong>Mrs. Mary Muse<\/strong>, a native of this county.\u00a0 To this union were born four children.\u00a0 The father was a tiller of the soil.\u00a0 He died in 1865 and his widow is still living.<\/p>\n<p>Our subject was educated in the country schools, and assisted his father on his farm until December, 1861, when he enlisted in the Twenty-third Regiment, Tennessee Confederate Infantry, and served with that command nineteen months.\u00a0 The principal battles in which he was engaged were Shiloh, Perryville and Murfreesboro.<\/p>\n<p>In 1866 he married <strong>Miss Achsah King,<\/strong> a native of this county, and a daughter of <strong>C. B. and Mary C. King<\/strong>.\u00a0 To our subject and wife were born the following children:\u00a0 <strong>Mary B., Hattie V., Charles F., James B., Sarah E., Robert E., Thomas E. and George E<\/strong>., all now living with the exception of <strong>Sarah E<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The mother of these children died May 9, 1882, and in 1885 Mr. Thompson married <strong>Miss Maggie A. Rankin<\/strong>, a native of Ohio, and a daughter of <strong>Rev. Alexander F. and Mary Rankin<\/strong>.\u00a0 Our subject is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and at present is a magistrate of his civil district. He owns a farm of over 200 acres, all under a good state of cultivation.\u00a0 Himself, wife and four eldest children are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and he is a Democrat in politics.<\/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>THOMAS C. THOMPSON was born February 8, 1848, in Bedford County, Tenn., son of W. F. and Harriet P. (Hall) Thompson.\u00a0 The father was a native of North Carolina, born September 9, 1816, and of English descent.\u00a0 The mother was of Irish descent, and by her union with W. F. Thompson she became the mother &#8230; <a title=\"THOMPSON, Thomas C.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/thomas-c-thompson\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about THOMPSON, Thomas C.\">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":[3341,3343,3344,3345,3342,3355,3354,3356,3348,3353,3347,3349,3346,3351,3350,3339,3352,3340],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-hall-harriet-p","tag-king-achsah","tag-king-c-b","tag-king-mary-c","tag-muse-mary","tag-rankin-alexander-f-rev","tag-rankin-maggie-a","tag-rankin-mary","tag-thompson-charles-f","tag-thompson-george-e","tag-thompson-hattie-v","tag-thompson-james-b","tag-thompson-mary-b","tag-thompson-robert-e","tag-thompson-sarah-e","tag-thompson-thomas-c","tag-thompson-thomas-e","tag-thompson-w-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","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=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}