Lucy Mathilda Thompson

Daughter of George Thompson and Sarah Ann Oxendine Thompson.

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Notes from Tony Japuntich on Ancestry.

It is not certain who the parents were of Lucy Matilda Thompson, but George Thompson and Sarah Ann Oxendine had a daughter named Lucy Matilda Thompson born in 1812, who is not accounted for other than being our Lucy Matilda Thompson, who lived not far from them in the Western Prong Area of what is now Columbus County, N.C. It has been thought that George and Sarah Ann migrated to Wilkes County, GA, but that is doubtful. Their son, George, did marry a woman from Georgia when living in Alabama and later they migrated to Texas. The daughter of George and Sarah Ann Thompson, Mary, married Caleb Green Stephens from Columbus County, N.C. and lived there for a while before moving to Robeson County, N.C. Their daughter, Susannah, married Eli Stephens from Robeson County, N.C. They later moved to Texas, where she and Eli died in Gonzalez, TX.

Some have erroneously placed in their family trees as the daughter of George Thompson and Sarah Ann Oxendine a Lucy Matilda Thompson who was born in 1812 in Robeson County who was married to Hugh Thompson. This particular Lucy Matilda Thompson was the daughter of Nathan B. Thompson and Mary Alford Kitchen of Robeson County, N.C.

Some have also listed Hugh Thompson as the spouse of our particular Lucy Matilda Thompson and father of her children. Again, not true. The other Lucy Matilda Thompson and her husband Hugh Thompson can be found living in Robeson County, N.C. in the 1840, 1850, 1860, and 1870 censuses of Robeson County, N.C., while our Lucy Matilda Thompson with no husband in the household, was living in Bladen County.

According to family legend the spouse of our Lucy Matilda Thompson, was Duncan Thompson, an Indian, though he cannot be found in any censuses and the only document found listing his name was a Columbus County, N.C. marriage register dated 1873 in which his daughter, Martha Thompson, listed her father's name as Duncan Thompson. Most news articles concerning the family (a list of the articles is found in the appendix of this section of the book) usually list his name as Duncan Thompson; however, one article about his grandson John P. Kinney which appeared in the Arkansas Democrat Newspaper of July 26, 1925 states that his mother had entered the Confederate Army under the of Bill Thompson, the name of her father. Other sources said that she entered under the name of her brother, though she did not have a brother named Bill Thompson (She did have a nephew by that name, though.)

According to the LDS web site, “Family Search”, Duncan Thompson was born in 1812 in Columbus County, NC and died in 1844. There is no source information cited for this and it was submitted after 1991 by an LDS member. It is not certain when Lucy Matilda Thompson died, nor where she and Duncan are buried. Someone has placed her as dying in 1880 and being buried in Robeson County, but the Lucy Matilda Thompson buried there is a black woman who was listed in the 1870 and 1880 U.S. censuses of Robeson County, N.C. living with her family while our Lucy Matilda Thompson is found in those censuses with her family in Bladen and Columbus Counties, North Carolina.

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