Mary was the daughter of Mary Lewis Cobbs Thompson and Waddy Thompson.
Sources
McAllister, John Meriwether, and Lura May Boulton Tandy. 1906. Genealogies of the Lewis and kindred families. Columbia, Mo: E.W. Stephens Pub. Co.
Anderson, Sarah Travers Lewis Scott, and Sarah (Anderson) Gordon. 1938. Lewises, Meriwethers and their kin; Lewises and Meriwethers with their tracings through the families whose records are herein contained. Richmond, Va: Dietz Press.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
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We need to correct the spelling of the last name to Thomson, not Thompson. See the records below. I can't do this, not on the Trusted List. Can someone assist? Or disagree?
Colonial Virginia Anderson Rootsweb site by Pat Anderson[1]
W.P. Anderson 1938 – W.P. Anderson, The Early Descendants of Wm. Overton & Elizabeth Overton of Virginia and Allied Families, 1938[2]
W.P. Anderson 1945 - William Pope Anderson, Anderson - Overton, A Continuation of Anderson Family Records (1936) & Early Descendants of William Overton & Elizabeth Waters of Virginia & Allied Fa, (Cincinnati, Ohio; 1945)
Notes Concerning the Waddy-Thomson Family, George C. Downing, Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society., Vol. 8 # 24 (1910) at[3]
Thompson-21521 and Thomson-1168 appear to represent the same person because: Ack I looked but missed this one, apologies. These are definitely the same person. I'm also using James and William's father's, Joseph Poindexter, DAR lineage and old Corps of Discovery information.