--WebTV-Mail-31549-57 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit LORI " THANX FOR RESPONDING. THE LINEAGE INFO IS ANOTHER POSSIBLE "CRACK IN MY BRICK WALL". MY AUNT MARY ALMA WAS 54 YRS. OLD ( RATHER SURE, NOT POSITIVE ) WHEN SHE DIED IN MANSFIELD, TARRANT CO.,TX ABOUT 1940 SOMETHING MY DAD, HER ONLY KNOWN BROTHER DIED FT.WORTH,TARRANT CO.,TX., DEC. 22 OR21, 1935. BOTH R BD. MANSFIELD,TX. MARY ALMA FIRST MARRIED JOHN FREDRIC WATTS, THEN, FOLLOWING UNCLE JOHN WATTS' DEATH, SHE MARRIED JOHN ELMER WALLER. MARY ALMA & JAMES FRANKLIN THOMPSON R BOTH BD. WATTS CEMETERY PLOT, MANSFIELD, TX. COULD MY "MARY" B A DESCENDANT OF UR THOMPSONS? --WebTV-Mail-31549-57 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from smtpin-2113.public.lawson.webtv.net (209.240.213.123) by storefull-2231.public.lawson.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 12:49:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [207.40.200.41]) by smtpin-2113.public.lawson.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix+sws) with ESMTP id 30898FE57; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 12:49:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) id g77JfibI020285; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:41:44 -0600 Resent-Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:41:44 -0600 X-Original-Sender: dustyc@microgear.net Wed Aug 7 13:41:43 2002 Message-ID: <000401c23e4a$5afb0ee0$29af4a3f@dustyc> From: "Dusty" <dustyc@microgear.net> Old-To: <CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com> References: <ac.2b65b602.2a81520d@aol.com> Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:05:36 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Subject: [CHOCTAW-SE] Surnames Being Researched Resent-Message-ID: <rgpAlD.A.m8E.3fXU9@lists5.rootsweb.com> To: CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/15225 X-Loop: CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L-request@rootsweb.com Lori: Just to clarify, there was officially no Choctaw tribe in Mississippi in 1901. The tribe removed to Oklahoma during the 1800's and those who remained in Mississippi were to be considered citizens of the US. The Mississippi Band of Choctaws reorganized as a federal entity in the 1940s with headquarters at Pearl River, Miss. dusty ----- Original Message ----- From: <Lori0602h@aol.com> To: <CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 11:23 AM Subject: Re: [CHOCTAW-SE] Surnames Being Researched > Ms. T. T. Durant: > > Thank you for contacting me regarding my Thompson line. My gg grandmother > was Julia Trotter Thompson. She was born in Alabama and last lived there > close to Barrington. Her father and grandfather were full Choctaw. > > At the time of her interview by the Department of the Interior, Commission to > the Five Civilized Tribes, on April 17, 1901 in Meridian, Mississippi, > regarding her enrollment in the Mississippi Choctaws, she had been living in > Mississippi for 60 years. She was 74 at this time. She was resing in Clarke > County with a Hale post office address. I know that she remained in > Mississippi and died there. Her husband was Berry Thompson. Her father was > Willoughby Trotter and her grandfather was Sam Trotter. > > My ggg grandmother had 8 children, 6 girls and 2 boys. I have only > identified Mary Thompson who married Lewis C. Smith; Margaret Thompson, born > about 1846 in MS, married Washington Ferrill; Jane Thompson, born about 1851 > in MS, Willoughby Thompson, and then my gg grandmother, Candis Thompson, born > May 1852 in MS, and married Alexander Allen on January 14, 1869 in Clarke > County. > > My ancestors basically lived in Clarke County...Shubuta, Quitman, etc. > > Hope this helps. Let me know if there is a connection. > > Lori > > > ==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== > To Unsubscribe: > Send msg. to CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L-request@rootsweb.com > Put "one" word in "body" of message:... "unsubscribe" without the quotes > Nothing in the subject line... Turn off signatures....... > ==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== Need more CHOCTAW information?? Try Rusty Lang's website at http://www.choctaw-web.com for censuses, genealogy lessons, articles, etc. --WebTV-Mail-31549-57--