This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: LarryThompson95 Surnames: Thompson, Powell Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/17240/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Our genealogical puzzle: First Account: DAVID THOMPSON (1740-1789), of Culpeper County, VA, was a soldier in the French & Indian Wars and also in the Revolutionary War. In 1764, he married ELIZABETH (1749-1850). DAVID THOMPSON, AMBROSE POWELL, and SIMON POWELL served in the military together, were awarded adjacent land in Culpeper County for their service, and became neighbors. DAVID and ELIZABETH had ten children born between 1764 and 1790. With the exception of one son, the lives of the other nine can be traced. Their son, GEORGE, was born cir. 1770 where he grew up in his parent's home, in Culpeper Co. After the 1790's, all Virginia records of GEORGE were lost and there has been no information found of his adult life. DAVID was a farmer and hunter; this he taught to his sons. Second Account: According to Kentucky records, GEORGE P. THOMPSON, with his wife, PRANCIS POWELL THOMPSON, walked from Culpeper County, VA, through the Cumberland Gap, to Jessamine County (near Lexington and Georgetown), and, eventually, to Estill County, Kentucky; arriving there in the late 1790's. GEORGE became a bear hunter in the same area where DANIEL BOONE hunted a decade before. After many successful trips into the Kentucky mountain wilderness, GEORGE failed to return from a bear hunt, probably the result of a fatal encounter with a bear or a band of Indians. In 1843, after GEORGE's assumed death, FRANCIS and her son, BENJAMIN, moved from Kentucky to Platt County, MO. The question to be proved: That GEORGE THOMPSON, the son of DAVID and ELIZABETH, was the same GEORGE THOMPSON who became a bear hunter in Kentucky? If you have information that will help; please post. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.