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My Great Grandfather Zedock N 'Doc' Thompson

Zedock N. Thompson "Doc� was born in January of 1853 in the New Garden Township of Russell County, Virginia to Jacob and Joanna Owens Thompson and lived in New Garden until he married. Doc married Mary Wallis; the daughter of James and Jennie Wallis, on November 7, 1876, Rev. John Thompson performed the ceremony. Doc and Mary had at least one son named Melvin. Melvin was born August 14, 1877 and died November 28, 1877 of a fever.

On July 15, 1878, Doc left for church. It was a rainy day, and Mary was cooking. The creek near their house was rising, but Mary needed something from the cellar. She crossed the swollen creek on a plank that was used as a footbridge. On her way back while crossing, she fell in and drowned. When Doc returned from church he went in the house and didn�t see his wife he thought she may have gone to the barn for something, but Mary�s dog kept coming up to the house and barking then running back down to the creek after the dog had done this for a few times Zedock thought something must be wrong and followed Mary�s dog which led him to her body.

When Doc moved to Wayne County, West Virginia he met and married a distant cousin Ada Francis Crabtree on September 10, 1879. Ada�s father, Reverend Solomon T. Crabtree, probably performed the marriage. Ada's great-grandmother, Susannah Thompson, was a sister to Doc's grandfather John. Doc and Ada lived near the head of Joel�s Branch in Wayne County. In 1886, Doc made his first land purchase of sixty-six acres from Minville Thompson, also a distant cousin. The deed was entered in the Wayne County Courthouse on January 6, 1886; Doc paid $410 for this property. This land at one time belonged to Ada's grandfather Wesley Crabtree. Doc lived there for seventeen years.

In November of 1903, Doc bought sixty-five acres of land on Bartram Fork in Wayne County near East Lynn off of Chapman Fry. He paid $112 for it. He bought more land on Bartram Fork in 1907 and continued to buy and sale into the 1920's. Dock lived on Bartram fork most of life. Dock and Ada had at least ten children.

George born in July 1880, Mary "Mertie" born on April 6, 1882, Cleveland born in March of 1885 and married Dori Dean, Leonidas "Lonnie� born in January of 1886 and married Shug Jackson, Zed born on February 15, 1890 and married Ella Crockett, Laura B. (my grandmother) born in December 6, 1894 and married John Jackson, William Henry born on November 9, 1883, Solomon Crabtree Thompson born on March 26, 1885, Cumberland died as a child, and an unnamed child born on April 11, 1902 and was delivered by Dr. Emery Thompson. Ada died in about 1916.

Around the age of about eighty-nine in the year of 1942 Doc died. My father talked about how he really enjoyed visiting his grandfather Doc Thompson as a child. My father would have been about 13 years old when his grandfather passed away.

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Sources: John B Jackson, Mary Lena Jackson Crabtree Kitts Troikey, Robbie Thompson