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F. W. THOMPSON, farmer, P. O. New Hope, was born in Pleasant Township May 23, 1847; he is the son of William and Jane (King) Thompson. His grandfather, Edward Thompson, settled in Brown County in 1796, and here married Susan Feagin; she was the daughter of Capt. Feagin, and the sixth child of a family of nineteen children born to Capt. Feagin by one wife. She died October 29, 1855, in the seventy-sixth year of her age. Capt. Feagin was a native of Virginia, and served his country with honor during the whole of the Revolutionary war as Captain. In 1786, he emigrated from Loudoun County, Va., to a place called Kenton Station, in Kentucky, where he located a large tract of land. By some mishap he lost his land, and, in 1796, he removed to Brown County, settling in sight of where Georgetown now stands. After opening a farm, he, with several of his sons and their families, removed to Fayette County, Ohio, where he died in July, 1815. The subject of this sketch was the oldest in a family of six children. He was educated at Decatur College, and adopted the occupation of farmer and trader, at which he is now engaged, being the owner of a fine farm of 106 acres. In 1872, he married Ella Sells; she was born in Brown County in 1848, and was a daughter of Benjamin Sells, a retired farmer. Their union was blest with four children — Erma Lee, King Gibson, Benjamin Sells and Lulu Belle. The parents are both members of the Presbyterian Church, in which Mr. Sells has been a Trustee. He is a Republican. From his grandmother’s obituary we copy the following: Died — On the 29th of October, 1855, Mrs. Susan Thompson, consort of Edward Thompson, Esq., in the seventy-sixth year of her age. The deceased was a daughter of Capt. Feagin, and the sixth child of a family of nineteen living born children of Capt. Feagin’s by one mother. Capt. Feagin was a native of Virginia, who served his country with honor through the whole of the Revolutionary war in the capacity of Captain. In 1786, he emigrated from Loudoun County, Va., to Kentucky, intending, when he embarked with his family aboard the boat to go to Limestone, now Maysville, but they stopped for several years at Kenton Station, and while there he located a large tract of land, which he by some mishap lost. In 1796, he removed to Brown County, and settled in sight of where Georgetown now stands. Several of his sons settled around him, but after opening farms they all left the country and located in Fayette County, where the Captain died in July, 1815.