Squire Thompson & Susanna Hart, Russell Co. VA
I am looking for any and all descendants of Squire Thompson (b. abt 1833, son of John Thompson & Jane Stinson) and Susanna Hart (b. abt 1837, daughter of Isaac Hart & Celia Combs), both of Russell Co., Virginia. Their daughter, Julia Ann, married her cousin Fullen Thompson, my gg-grandpa. Squire & Susanna were married 23 Jan 1855 in New Garden, and had sons Edward D. Thompson, Robert T. Thompson, and Archibald Thompson, and another daughter, Mary Ann Thompson. Susanna died, and Squire remarried to Mary Patrick in Sep 1875. He and his new wife and family are found on the 1880 Roane Co. WV census, but Squire (misread as Square Thompson) then reappears on the 1890 Russell Co. personal property tax list (the only substitute for the burnt 1890 census) next to his brothers Cummings and M.A. (Major), but is no longer found in court records in Russell Co. after 1876.
There is an obituary for an S.H. Thompson listed in Tazewell Co., 14 Jan 1909, according to Nuckols, 1995 ("Obituary index, Tazewell, Virginia, as reported in local publications, 1897-1912"), but when I visited the Tazewell library, Aug 2009, they DO NOT have the microfilms of the papers for that period, and the librarians didn't know anywhere they might be found
Anyone knowing anything about this family, especially their descendants and Squire or Susanna's resting places, please get in touch. I have much more info to share. Squire's birthplace was on the old Thompson family farm in New Garden, on Thompson's creek, a branch of the Clinch River running down Big A mountain from Honaker to Nash's ford of the Clinch, still a lovely place though much changed since that day.