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| 10. Marshall J.2Thompson (Henry1), was born circa 1813, Jones County, Georgia, died after the 1880 census of Lee County, Alabama.224 He married 11 March 1838, in Chambers County, Alabama, to Susannah Meadows,225 born 5 January 1821, Jones County, Georgia, died between 1870 and 1880, Lee County, Alabama, daughter of Benjamin Meadows and Nancy Parker. [See Meadows chapter, No. 27].
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| | In the 1827 Georgia Land Lottery, Henry Thompson’s orphans of Bredlove’s District in Jones County, Georgia, drew Lot 182 in Section 2, District 23, 202 ½ acres. This lot was in Muscogee County, when it was drawn in 1827. It was then put into Talbot County. In Talbot County, Georgia, on 20 December 1834, Marshall J. Thompson of Pike County, Georgia, sold to David B. Bush, for $80, ¼ part of Lot 182, 23rd District, drawn by Henry Thompson’s orphans, Jones County. Witnesses: Wm. M. Bethune, John R. Martin, J.P. Recorded 1 January 1835.226
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| | Marshall J. Thompson was appointed postmaster, 28 February 1854, at Hallawoca in Chambers County, Alabama. He served until this post office was closed, 24 March 1857.227 Marshall Thompson’s father-in-law, Benjamin Meadows, donated land in the southwest quarter of Section 33, Township 20, Range 28 (now Lee County, Alabama), for the benefit of Halawakee Academy in 1836. The log structure was razed and a new schoolhouse was built in 1849 by the trustees, William H. H. Griffin, Marshall J. Thompson, W. W. Burt, and Clark Aldridge.228
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| 224 1880 U.S. Census, Lee Co., Ala., S.D. 4, E.D. 94, Sheet 53, Auburn, Beat 6, line 12, family #536. Marshal G. Thompson, head, widowed, male, white, age 67, born Georgia Ireland Ireland, farmer, unemployed for 5 months; Lula Lee Thompson, dau., female, white, age 17, born Ala. Ga. Ga.; Thomas Bray, boarder, male, white, age 19, born Ala. Ga. Ala. Marshal is included in the same dwelling, #589, as the ten members of the Walter Collins family #535, and following Thomas Bray’s family #537. Walter Collins was a miller and the rest of his family consisted of a wife, daughters, sons, nephews, and nieces.
| | 225 Genealogical Society of East Alabama, Chambers County, Alabama, Marriage Records 1833-1866, Vol. I. Chambers Co., Marriage Book 1, p. 156. M. J. Thompson to Susan Meadows, 11 March 1838. Marriage performed by Samuel Rotch, J.P. Benjamin Meadows consents.
| | 226 Talbot Co., Ga., Deed Book C, 1833-1837, p. 333.
| | 227 Bobby Lindsey, A History of Chambers County, Alabama, 1832-1900.
| | 228 A History of Chambers County, Alabama, 1832-1900.
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