F. “Thompson-McNinch Family Records” (annotated)
	Published in [journal(?)] “Seventeen Seventy-Six” 5(4):192 (Winter 1986), found at
	Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana, August 1995, by Lillian McAninch.
[1986]   “Data sources: Family Bible of Mary McNinch Thompson; memory of Lucille M. Davis [sic],
	P.O. Box 658, Boerne, Texas 78006; and the Civil War records of George J. Thompson, USA. Contributed by Mrs. L. Brimhall, P.O. Box 787, Winston, Oregon 97496.”
		[Notes T1, T2, T3]

“Mary Narcissa McNinch was born 11 March 1831, probably in Giles County, Tennessee. She died at the home of her daughter, Tranquilla Bond [Tranquilla Crocia (Thompson) (Nottingham), T.C. Bond], near Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, on the 29th of October, 1917. She was buried in Kidd Cemetery.
Mary N. McNinch and George J.. Thompson were married on the 18th of August 1847, by Squire John Amos, near Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee. Persons present at their wedding were:
Martha Jane McNinch (mother of Mary) [sic]	[Mary’s sister, not mother; Note T2, T3]
Robert C. [sic] Reed (thought to be Martha Jane's father)	[grand-father of Mary and Martha Jane]
Mrs. T.E. Golden [and] Martha J. Edmundson	[and, these two witnesses still unknown]
Mary and George lived in Giles County, Tennessee, until 1857. Their next home was in Cedar County, Missouri. Years later, George and Mary were homesteading near, or at, Chaney, Woodward County, Oklahoma [Territory], where he died the 14th of December 1903. George had health problems after his Union service in the Civil War. After he died, Mary applied for a pension (at age 73).

Their	Francis D. b. 15 Sept. 1848, Giles Co., Tenn., m. Rhoda Ray
children:	John A., b. 20 Nov. 1850, Giles Co., Tenn., m. Frances Freiz
	Cynthia A., b. 23 Nov. 1852, Giles Co., Tenn., m. James H. Friez
	Charlotte A., b. 2 Jan. 1855, Giles Co., Tenn.
	Tranquilla Crocia, b. 10 July 1857, Cedar Co., Mo., m. B.F. Nottingham
	Robert Isaac, b. 22 Dec. 1859, Cedar Co., Mo., m. L.A. Roper
	William W., b. 24 Nov. 1863, Cedar Co., Mo., m. Suly [sic] M. Anderson
	Mary A., b. 20 April 1866, Cedar Co., Mo., m. John E. Anderson
	George H., b. 6 March 1869, Cedar Co., Mo., m. Bertha A. Stilwel
	Martha Jane, b. 23 Oct. 1871, Cedar Co., Mo. [Martha Jane Thompson, not McNinch]
Mary's mother, Mrs. [Susan(nah) (Reed), Martha Jane] McNinch, was left a widow with small children. She lived with her parents [Robert and Elizabeth “Betsey” (Myers) Reed, Giles Co., Tenn.] until the children were grown. Then she married Mr. [Zeno] Campbell. They lived to be quite old. One evening they were both sitting on their cabin porch watching a summer storm, when lightening struck them and burned their cabin. In the family Bible, Robert Reed's birth-date was 23 December 1780.”
(Thompson) Notes:
T1. “Family Bible of Mary McNinch Thompson” no longer available (lost long before 1986)
T2. Census records confirm “Susan” as (Zeno) Campbell’s wife, and Martha Jane born 1832-1833; Martha Jane Mc. is 17 in 1850, and could not be “(mother of Mary)”, as stated in the 1986 article.
T3. The false lead “Martha Jane McNinch, mother of Mary” could be mis-interpretation of later 1850 marriage: “Reed, Robert C., [m.] Johnston, Mary Jane, 11 Nov. 1850, [by] D. Bodenhamer J.P.”, in the book Giles County Marriages, 1818-1862, page 3. This Robert C. must be a different Reed, married 1850, since Robert’s wife Elizabeth (Myers) Reed is living with him on the 1850 census.
Mary Narcissa McNinch Thompson, born 1831, Giles Co., Tenn. (pg. 9 of 9)   McN Mary N .doc
McAninch Family History NL, VII-4  October 1999  Copyright Frank McAninch   page 1999-35

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