Bill, thank you for your interest and suggestion.  Like you say it
might be "just a wild shot...", but at this point anything's better
than nothing.

The DNA possibility has crossed my mind, but that, too, will be
difficult.  The Thompson family is my wife's family, and up several
maternal branches of her tree.  Nevertheless I'm still trying to
locate a male descendant.

Lou Poole

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Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Richard H. Thompson, and Ann Fleming, where
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Lou Poole,

This is just a "wild shot in the dark," but I wonder if your George 
Cumberland Thompson was given his middle name because of Cumberland
Co., VA? 
There were three early Robert Thompsons (grandfather/father/son) who
were in 
New Kent Co., VA (starting the early-mid-1600s), and several children
of 
Robert Thompson "III" were living in Cumberland Co., VA by the 1760s
or so. 
One of those several children was named Benajah Thompson, and he
married 
Drucilla Hobson.  Benajah and Drucilla's children were born too early
to 
have included your Richard H. ("Hobson," by chance?) Thompson, but I
suppose 
that Richard H. Thompson could have been their grandson or
great-grandson. 
If you go to RootsWeb WorldConnect and search for Benajah Thompson,
who can 
see a list of his many children.  Benajah also had several brothers,
so they 
also represent "possibilities," I would assume.  There were/are, of
course, 
other Cumberland Counties in other states, so the above is just one 
possibility.

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