Person:John Thompson (90)

Notes

John Thompson, son of William, married Louisa Bowen. She was the daughter of Lieutenant Rees Bowen, who was killed in the battle at King's Mountain. Archibald, his brother, married Rebecca Peery, a daughter of George Peery, who settled in Abb's Valley, and who was one of the justices of the first county court of Tazewell County.

John Thompson, after his marriage, settled in Thompson Valley, about 3 miles below Plum Creek Gap. He had four sons, William, James, Archibald, and Walter, and several daughters. William, son of John, married Matilda Witten, daughter of James Witten, the famous scout. This William Thompson established his home at the foot of Clinch Mountain on the old wagon road which crossed the mountain to Poor Valley, and thence down through Laurel Gap, by Broad Ford, and on to Preston's Salt Works. His three brothers had their homes above his place on the road that then passed up the valley to the Plum Creek Gap. They each had large and valuable boundaries of land, most of which still remains in the possession of their descendants.

[Source: History Of Tazewell County And Southwest Virginia, 1748 - 1920, by Wm. C. Pendleton. W.C. Hill Printing Company, Richmond, Virginia. 1920. pp. 424-6].