From Proud Heritage, Volume I by DCPA, currently out of print.
George Brooks Thompson, born 9 August 1805 in Wilkes County, Georgia, son of George Thompson and Agnes Daniel, married Martha (Patsey) Sanders on 9 March 1831 in Bedford County, Tennessee. She was born 5 December 1809 in Tennessee, daughter of Richard Sanders and Sarah Story. Their children were: 1) Sarah Thompson born 1833, died young. 2) Agnes Daniel Thompson born circa 1835-36, Tennessee, married Sam A. Galleher 10 April 1860, Dallas, Texas. 3) Nancy T. Thompson born 9 November 1837, Tennessee, married 1854, Harrison County, Texas, James L. Sypert; died 17 January 1872, Dallas, Texas, buried Beeman Cemetery. 4) Elizabeth Thompson born circa 1839 Tennessee, married William Alexander Harwood 17 March 1862, Dallas, Texas. 5) William Alexander (Dallas) Thompson born 21 July 1844 in Tennessee, died 10 December 1917 Johnson County, Texas; married Matilda L. Hawpe 2 November 1873 in Dallas, Texas. After this man became an adult, he dropped his actual name and used the name “Dallas” altogether.
George Thompson made several trips to Texas prior to 1844. He came to buy wild horses (mmtangs) and drive them back east to sell. In 1844 he sold his land in Bedford County, Tennessee and moved to Harrison County, Texas. He settled near Ash Spring. His wife’s family, the Richard Sanders, came in the same year and also settled in the same area.
In the year 1855, George and Martha Thompson, their family and their daughter, Nancy, and her husband, James Sypert, all moved from Harrison County to Dallas County. George Thompson bought a farm about two miles east of Dallas, known as the “McCoy” place. In 1858 this was sold and another place further east was purchased. Then in 1870 he acquired a grist mill on White Rock Creek (just off present Military Parkway). He sold the mill in 1883 and moved with his son, Dallas Thompson, to a farm ·in Johnson County; however, at his death on June 14, 1886 he was at the home of his daughter, Agnes Galleher, in Dallas.
Martha, his wife, had died 27 November 1878, before he left the mill in Dallas, and they are both buried at Beeman Cemetery. They both became members of the Christian Church in 1850.
This Thompson family is allied by marriage with the Hawpe and Sypert families of Dallas County. The son, Dallas Thompson, married Matilda Hawpe, daughter of T. C. Hawpe and Electa Underwood. The grandaughter, Laura, (daughter of Nancy) married G. T. (Tim) Hawpe, son of T. C. Hawpe and brother to Matilda. Nancy Thompson had married James L. Sypert, and they were the parents of Laura Sypert Hawpe.
By George A. Hawpe, Jr., great-grandson, Dallas
