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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 a 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 August, 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 County. 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 property. 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.