WILLIAM P. THOMAS may be mentioned as one of the prosperous farmers of Marshall County, Tenn.  His parents, T.W. and Lucy (Pierson) Thomas, were born in Virginia, and were there married, and soon after came to Tennessee and located in Rutherford County, where they lived until the death of the father, and then the mother and her five children located in Bedford
County, and about 1850 came to Marshall County.  The faher was a stock trader and while on a tour in Alabama sickened and died.  William P. was born in Rutherford County, September 7, 1832, and as he was obliged to assist in supporting the family his school days were limited.  He has acquired a practical business education, however, and is well to do in worldly goods, being the owner of 400 acres of land, which he has acquired by hard work.  In 1861 he volunteered in Col. Haynes' Company of cavalry and after a short service was discharged on account of rheumatic trouble. In politics he is a stanch Democrat, and is a Master Mason of Chapel Hill
Lodge.  His is a bachelor.

JOSEPH PERCIVAL THOMPSON is a son of John and Mary (Snell) Thompson, who
were born in North Carolina.  The father came to Tennessee with his parents when Nashville was a mere village.  He spent the greater share of his life in Bedford Conty, where he farmed and practiced medicine.  He served as surveyor and magistrate and represented his county one term in the State Legislature.  He was a Democrat up to 1835 and then became a Whig.  He died
in 1857 and the mother in 1861.  Joseph P. was born in Bedford County January 16, 1812.  At the age of sixteen he began working as salesman, and in 1833 wedded Prudence Allison, by whom he had five children.  She died in 1844 and the following year he married Myra Wallis.  To them were born four children, two of whom lived to be grown.  In 1850 his second wife died and
two years later Margaret E. Fowler became his third wife.  Since his first marriage Mr. Thompson has farmed.  He is conservative in politics.  Robert C. Thompson, his son, was born to his first marriage.  He was born June 30, 1836, in Bedford County, and there lived ;until sixteen years of age and then came to Marshall County.  He taught school for some time, although farming had been his chief calling through life.  In 1858 he wedded Frances S. Wilson, by whom he had three children:  Flora A., Thomas L. (who graduated with the class of 1886 from Vanderbilt University), and Minnie B.  In 1861 Robert C volunteered in Company H, Forty-first Tennessee Infantry.  He was captured at Fort Donelson and imprisoned at Camp Morton, but
re-entered service after being exchanged, but was so severely wounded at Atlanta that he was disabled from further service.  He attained the rank of second lieutenant.  Since the was he has farmed.  He is a Democrat in politics, and is a man who takes deep interest in enterprises for the
public wealth.

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