Biographical Sketch of George W. Thompson, Webster County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Rev. George W. Thompson was born on the top of Cumberland Mountain, in
Marion county, Tenn., on the 19th of February, 1831 and is the brother
of Andrew J. Thompson, whose sketch immediately follows.  He was there
reared to manhood, and in 1851 located in St. Louis, Mo., coming the
following year to what is now Webster county, and locating near his 
present place of residence.  He did his share in helping to improve 
the county, and assisted in laying out the town of Marshfield in Aug-
ust, 1855.  January 6, 1859 he espoused Miss Mary L. Shook, who had
come from her native state of Tennessee to Missouri when a miss of six
years, and settled with her father, William B. Shook, in Webster Co.,
Mo.  Six days after their marriage they settled on their present farm,
which was then raw land, and which consisted at first of forty acres.
He has since purchased adjoining lands, and is now the owner of 280
acres, about 100 of which are cleared and under cultivation.  His 
property is well improved with good, substantial buildings, and Mr.
Thompson may well be proud of the success which has attended his 
efforts, for he began life a poor boy, but has acquired a nice prop-
erty.  He served about two months in the Home Guards during the war, 
and also served as justice of the peace at one time during this period.
He is a member of the Agricultural Wheel, and since 1875 has been a 
local preacher in the Methodist Protestant Church, his wife being also
a member of this denomination.  The following are their children:
George W., Jr.; Francis Marion; William Jackson and Eva Ellar.  Seven
children died in infancy and early childhood.

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