Anna McDonald

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    From: "Deborah Woolf" <woolfpac@prodigy.net>
    Subject: [CherokeeGeneCommunity] James THOMPSON (White) md. Margaret McNARY "CHerokee"
    Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:21:59 -0800
    
    The Handbook of Texas is online and I found a bio, very
    interesting...thought some of the other
    THOMPSON researchers would like to view it. This is not in entirety, so you
    may want to click to the
    url: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/TT/fth55.html
    
    THOMPSON, JAMES GEORGE (1802-1879). James George Thompson, a prominent
    merchant and the first chief justice of Grayson County, was born in South
    Carolina on January 12, 1802, the son of Jesse and Anna (McDonald) Thompson.
    Before he was seven years old his family moved to Cherokee County on the
    Tennessee River in what is now Alabama. Thompson grew up among Cherokees and
    married Margaret McNary, a quarter-breed Cherokee of the Long Hair clan. In
    1829, after the Cherokee Removal Treaty of 1828, the Thompsons moved to
    Arkansas Territory along with hundreds of Cherokee families. Between 1832
    and 1834 Thompson operated a trading post in the western Cherokee Nation on
    the Canadian River, near its mouth on the Arkansas River.