"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
PAGE 240
GEORGE P. THOMPSON, a farmer of Brown Township, was born in Chatham County,
N.C., September 5, 1814, and came to Indiana in 1833. After spending a few
months in Morgan County, he returned to his native State, but before the end
of 1834 he was back in Morgan County, where he has since lived. His life
has been spent upon a farm, and his schooling acquired at the Friends'
School, White Lick. December 18, 1836, he was married in Brown Township to
Millie, a daughter of George A. Schoffner, a native of North Carolina, who
came into Morgan County in 1826, and was one of the four men drowned in 1829
while attempting to cross White Lick Creek in a canoe. Mr. Thompson has had
born to him eleven children--Louisa (dead), Margaret, Mary A., Asbury,
Sylvester, Anson, Spencer, Malinda (dead), Sarah, Fremont and Samuel. Mr.
Thompson's parents, Samuel and Sarah (Womble) Thompson, were natives of
North Carolina. The Thompsons came originally from England, and the two
old people emigrated into Indiana in 1869 and located in Hamilton County,
where the mother died in 1881 at the age of eighty-four years. The father,
however, died in North Carolina, whence he had returned in 1872, at the age
of ninety-five years. Our subject owns a fine farm of 100 acres, upon which
he resides; is a stock-holder in the M. & M. Gravel Road Company, and was
for fifteen years one of the Directors of said company. His property has
been acquired by the united industry of himself and wife. They are both
consistent members of the Christian Church, and have been for more than a
quarter of a century.
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