John Clayton
Thompson
Born in Bluefield, Tazewell, Virginia, United States
Ancestors 
Brother of
Bessie R. (Thompson) Hall, Walter Thompson, Maude Lillian (Thompson) Moore, Unnamed Infant Thompson, Vicie Lee (Thompson) Robson, John B. Thompson, Charles Thompson, Greever T. Thompson, James Patton Thompson, Amie Thompson, Mamie Thompson, Georgia C. (Thompson) Harmon, Gladys Virginia (Thompson) Whitt, Baby Boy Thompson and Joseph C. Thompson
Husband of
Margaret Jane (Sanders) Thompson
— married
24 Dec 1911 in Tazewell County, Virginia, United States
Descendants 
Father of
James Mildred Thompson, Lina Mae (Thompson) Phipps, Perry Washington Thompson, Sula Julina Mattie (Thompson) Catron, Agnes Marie (Thompson) Jeffrey, Roy Clayton Thompson, Mary Margaret (Thompson) Collins and Jack Martin Thompson
Died
at age 69
in Bluefield, Tazewell, Virginia, United States
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Biography
John Clayton Thompson was born in Appalachia, in Virginia.
Native Virginian
John Clayton Thompson was born on June 2, 1891 in Bluefield, Tazewell, Virginia, United States, son of Rufus Walter Thompson (1868–1938) and Martha Florence Brooks (1870–1943).[1][2]
John (20) married Margaret Jane Sanders (19) (born on April 21, 1892 in Clear Fork Magisterial District, Tazewell; daughter of James M. Sanders and Paulina Alice (Grubb) Sanders) on December 24, 1911 in Tazewell County, Virginia.[3]
Their children were:
- James Mildred Thompson (1915–1915)
- Lina Mae Thompson (1916–1993)
- Perry Washington Thompson (1919–2008)
- Sula Julina Mattie Thompson (1921–1973)
- Agnes Marie Thompson (1923–2015)
- Roy Clayton Thompson (1925–2002)
- Mary Margaret Thompson (1930–2019)
- Jack Martin Thompson (1935–2015)
He lived in Pocahontas, Tazewell, Virginia, United States in 1920 and Clear Fork District, Tazewell, Virginia, United States for about 10 years.[4]
He registred for both Drafts.[5][6]
He died on 14 April 1961, in Bluefield, Tazewell, Virginia, United States, at the age of 68,[7] and was buried in Grandview Memory Gardens, Bluefield, Tazewell, Virginia, United States.[8] John Clay Thompson is my great-uncle from my father's mother's family.[9]
Sources
- ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMJ4-R8K : accessed 16 June 2021), Jno C Thompson in household of Thompson, Rich Valley District (Saltville Precinct, incl. Saltville Town), Smyth, Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 83, sheet 15A, family 246, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,728.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPGT-2XT : accessed 16 June 2021), Clayton Thompson in household of Rufus Thompson, Clear Fork, Tazewell, Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 96, sheet 22A, family 354, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1650; FHL microfilm 1,375,663.
- ↑ "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR3Q-H2Q : 29 January 2020), Clayton Thompson, 1911.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJN8-SSB : 4 February 2021), Clay Thompson, 1920.
- ↑ "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K6Z8-J9Y : 23 February 2021), John Clayton Thompson, 1917-1918.
- ↑ "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V1V8-VN2 : 13 March 2020), John Clayton Thompson, 1942; citing NARA microfilm publication M1936, M1937, M1939, M1951, M1962, M1964, M1986, M2090, and M2097 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- ↑ "Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVRC-82NX : 16 August 2019), John Clayton Thompson, 14 Apr 1961; from "Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2012); citing Boissevain, Tazewell, Virginia, United States, entry #, Virginia Department of Health, Richmond
- ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147315152/john-clayton-thompson
- ↑ Kimberly Whitt Lindsay
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