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Note: Because of their length, chapters two and twelve are split into three parts.
Chapter 1: Thomas Thompson and Nancy Waddill Carter(pages 1-16). Thomas Thompson (born August 13, 1740) and Nancy Waddill Carter (born June 15, 1749) married in Prince Edward County, Virginia, in about 1769. Speculations on Thomas' origins; history of the Carter family; Thomas' will and Bible record. (Note: the lives of Thomas Thompson and Nancy Waddill Carter's eight children and their descendants, excepting Carter Thompson and his descendants [see note under chapter three], are covered in chapters two through nine, with chapter numbers corresponding to the birth order of Thomas and Nancy's children.)
Chapter 2: James Thompson and His Descendants. Descendants of James Thompson (born August 16, 1770) and Sarah Steele Baker, who married in Prince Edward County, Virginia, on January 17, 1797.
Part one (pages 17-50): Thompsons of Hancock County, Ill. and Union Parish, La.; William Thompson and James Edward Thompson descendants of Cadiz, Ky.; Breathitt family of Hopkinsville, Ky; Bristow family of Elkton, Ky.; Wharton family of Trigg County, Ky.
Part two(pages 50-86): Moses Steele Thompson descendants of Cadiz, Ky; Watson family of Trigg County, Ky.
Part three(pages 86-116): Thompsons of Chappell Hill, Tx.; Wallis and Landes families of Galveston, Tx.; Moore family of Comanche, Tx.
Chapter 3: Carter Thompson and Nancy Morton (pages 117-24). Carter Thompson (born April 12, 1773) and Nancy Morton (born May 16, 1768) married January 12, 1797 in Prince Edward County, Virginia. History of the Morton family of Prince Edward County; the life of Captain John Morton; Woodson, Cocke, and Aston families of Virginia; Carter Thompson's Bible record. (Note: the lives of Carter Thompson and Nancy Morton's nine children and their descendants are covered in chapters ten through eighteen, with chapter numbers corresponding to the birth order of Carter and Nancy's children.)
Chapter 4: Thomas Thompson (pages 125-26). Brief chapter on Thomas Thompson (born November 16, 1774), a son of Thomas Thompson and Nancy Waddill Carter.
Chapter 6: Elizabeth Hill and Her Descendants (pages 133-82). Descendants of Elizabeth Thompson (born January 19, 1779) and John Hill, who married in Prince Edward County, Virginia, on February 4, 1796. Grinter family of Logan County, Ky.; Grinter and Street families of Cadiz, Ky; Hall family of Nashville, Tenn.
Chapter 7: William Thompson(pages 183-84). Brief chapter on William Thompson (born May 24, 1780), a son of Thomas Thompson and Nancy Waddill Carter.
Chapter 8: Nancy Colley and Her Descendants (pages 185-86). Brief chapter on the Simpson County, Kentucky descendants of Nancy Colley (born August 20, 1785) and Seth Colley, who married in Logan County, Kentucky, on January 7, 1805.
Chapter 9: John C. Thompson(pages 187-88). Brief chapter on John C. Thompson (born July 26, 1791), a son of Thomas Thompson and Nancy Waddill Carter.
Chapter 10: Hezekiah Morton Thompson and His Descendants (pages 189-202). Descendants of Hezekiah Morton Thompson (born October 22, 1797) and Sarah Berry, who married December 23, 1819, in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. Thompson, Kemp, Wall, Bankston, and Catha families of St. Helena Parish, La.
Chapter 11: Thomas W. Thompson (pages 203-04). Brief chapter on the life of Thomas W. Thompson (born June 4, 1801), a son of Carter Thompson and Nancy Morton.
Chapter 12: John Morton Thompson and His Descendants. Descendants of John Morton Thompson (born August 30, 1802) and Mary Hopkins Cohron (born February 22, 1795), who married in Butler County, Kentucky, on February 15, 1821.
Part one (pages 205-226): Grubb family of Butler County, Ky.; Cohron, Ellis, Fambrough, and Ligon families of Henderson County, Ky.
Part two (pages 226-267): Descendants of James Carter Thompson (born October 25, 1825) and Mary Ann Green (born February 2, 1846). Thompson family of Warren County, Ky., Indianapolis, Ind., and Rains and Hunt counties, Tx.
Part three(pages 268-286): Descendants of George Washington Thompson (born December 23, 1827) and Sarah R. Ferguson (born February 14, 1840), who married in Butler County, Ky., on April 4, 1861. Thompson, Russ, Hullett, and Sharer families of Warren County, Ky.
Chapter 13: Nancy Hill and Her Descendants(pages 287-90). Brief chapter on the descendants of Nancy Carter Thompson (born March 10, 1804) and Davis Hill (born December 5, 1800), who married in Butler County, Kentucky, on December 9, 1824, and moved to Adams County, Illinois.
Chapter 14: Obediah Morton Thompson and His Descendants(pages 291-340). Descendants of Obediah Morton Thompson (born June 22, 1806) and Mary Jane Williams (born September 29, 1823), who married in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, on December 31, 1840. Thompson, Gayden, Tinkler, Swett, and Carruth families of East Feliciana Parish, La.; Thompson, Gayden, Moore, and Perry families of Dallas, Tx.; Smitherman and Yancey families of Shreveport, La.
Chapter 15: Samuel Carter Thompson and His Descendants(pages 341-56). Descendants of Samuel Carter Thompson (born March 22, 1808) and Jane Yearzley Mayhew (born October 12, 1832), who married in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, on July 20, 1858. Calvit, Humble, Germany, and Bankston families of St. Helena Parish, La.
Chapter 16: Benjamin Woodson Thompson and His Descendants(pages 357-84). Descendants of Benjamin Woodson Thompson (born November 23, 1809) and Olive Ann Thompson (born November 14, 1830) of Santa Rosa County, Florida. Thompson, Creary, and Walker families of Santa Rosa County, Florida.
Chapter 17: James Anderson Thompson (pages 385-86). Brief chapter on James Anderson Thompson (born September 23, 1811), a son of Carter Thompson and Nancy Morton.
Chapter 18: Mary Anderson Wells and Her Descendants(pages 387-88). Brief chapter on the descendants of Mary Anderson Thompson (born August 10, 1813) and Thomas Wells, who married in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, on January 1, 1832.
Appendixes
Appendix A: Correspondence of Octavia Gayden Tullis and Dr. Joseph D. Eggleston (pages 389-398). These letters were discovered by the compiler in the Genealogical Papers of Dr. Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Morton Family File, at the Virginia Historical Society. Written in the 1929, the letters are a result of the efforts of Octavia Gayden Tullis (chapter 14) to learn more of the history of the Thompson and Morton families from Dr. Eggleston, who was a president of Hampden-Sydney College in Prince Edward County.
Appendix B: Cyrus Thompson's Genealogical Letter to Emma Thompson Bristow (pages 399-400). Written in 1897 in Lockhart, Texas, this letter contains much information on the descendants of James Thompson and Sarah Steele Baker (Chapter 2), who married in Prince Edward County, Virginia, and died in Cadiz, Kentucky.
Appendix C: Louisiana Descendants of the North Carolina Aldermans(pages 401-04). Written by Octavia Gayden Tullis, this essay contains information about the descendants of Obediah Morton Thompson and Mary Jane Williams (Chapter 14), of East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.
Appendix D: John B. Thompson on the Descendants of Obediah Morton Thompson (pages 405-14). These letters were written in 1993 by John Burton Thompson to Mrs. Hallie Garner, of Dallas, Texas. They consist of interesting and colorful stories about the descendants of Obediah Morton Thompson and Mary Jane Williams (Chapter 14), of East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.
Appendix E: Letters of John W. Chappell to the Thompsons of Chappell Hill, Texas (pages 415-18). John W. Chappell was the brother-in-law of Hiram Thompson (Chapter 2). These letters concern Chappell's efforts to collect a debt from a Trigg County, Kentucky, resident who had migrated to Galveston, Texas, in the 1860s. They also also touch on family matters and current events, including concern in Cadiz regarding the possibility of war in 1861. Special thanks to Mrs. Nath Winfield, of Chappell Hill, Texas, for supplying these letters and many other interesting documents.
Appendix F: Aston of Tixall, Staffordshire and Charles City, Virginia(pages 419-22). This article traces the history of the Aston family, of Virginia, back to Charlemagne. Mary Aston, who was a member of this family, is an ancestor of the descendants of Carter Thompson and Nancy Morton (chapters three and ten through eighteen).