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Note: (Research):Purchased 68 acres from his father, William S. Thompson on October 26, 1878. Source: Book R, page 544, Grantee Index to Deeds and Realty Mortgages-Thomas County, Georgia. Sold land to J.L. Hand and M. Wilkes on October 7, 1889. Source: Book II, page 587, Grantee Index to Deeds and Realty Mortgages-Thomas County, Georgia. 1890 TAX: J. T. Thompson, name is found in the Georgia Property Tax Index for Ochlocknee District, Thomas county, Georgia. Sold land to W. M. Singletary on November 24, 1891. Source: Book BB, page 53, Grantee Index to Deeds and Realty Mortgages-Thomas County, Georgia. Sold land to D.W. Chason on December 5, 1900. Source: Book GG, page 383, Grantee Index to Deeds and Realty Mortgages-Thomas County, Georgia. Sold land to S.D. Singletary on March 14, 1901. Source: Book JJ, page 142, Grantee Index to Deeds and Realty Mortgages-Thomas County, Georgia. 1906 Ochlocknee Land of Crooked Waters, Georgia Beatrice Griffin, 1982, pp. 52-53, Chapter XI "The Politics of The People" �tab�One of three candidates for the legislature in 1906 was J. B. Stubbs of Ochlocknee, a young teacher in the Ochlockonee School." He has a wide family connection throughout the county and is well and favorably known to the voters. He is the correspondent for theTimes Enterprise at Ochlocknee and his readable letters are a feature interest in this paper. He is a young man of pleasing address and takes a deep interest in afairs of the day." Late in the summer the county executive committee named J. H. Norton, J. T. Thompson, and T. A. Beverly to preside over the Ochlocknee District for the primary. �tab� �tab�Selected to work in the 1908 county primary were J. T. Thompson of Ochlocknee and Byron Collier of Ella Belle. The Hon. J. Beta Stubbs at- tended the summer session of the legislature in June and July; the justice court room in Ochlocknee burned and the County Commissisoners appropriated $100 to rebuild it; registered voters in Ochlocknee numbered 206 whites and 31 blacks and Ellabelle 95 whites and 10 blacks. In September the Populists "met a hundred strong in an old syrup house and the capacity of the house was taxed to its utmost." In November 1912, Ochlocknee voters gave 7 votes to the Progressives, 49 to the Democrats, none to theRepublicans and Socialists, while Ellabelle gave 37 to the Progressives and 5 to the Democrats with none for the Republicans and Socialists. The nation went Democratic." �tab�The following years local opposition arose regarding the formation of a new county to be named Hansell with Meigs as its countysite; both Ochlocknee and Ellabelle Districts sent a representative delegation to Atlanta. Apparently they (or others) were successful in the attempt to block the legislation as the new county never materialized. In 1905 there was some opposition to the creation of the new Grady County but its formation became a reality. �tab�J. B. Stubbs, candidate for Clerk of Court in 1916, was endorsed by his neighbors: �tab�C. A. Welch, R. W. McMillan, D. B. Anderson, R. Singletary, W. H. Wurst, P. B. Clark, J. F. Anderson, R. R. Singletary, A.E.Speer, bank cashier, P. P. Dixon, H. L. Bullock, W. B. Bullock, J. W. Singletary, R. L. Merritt, T. A. Bullock, postmaster, L. C. Clark, J. T. Thompson. �tab�The son of the Reverend "Tipp" Stubbs, a widely known and well beloved Methodist preacher, has served eight years as Principal of Ochlocknee and Center Hill schools and as the representative from Thomas County during the terms of Joe Brown and Hoke Smith, governors of Georgia." 1917, In the category Agricultural Awards, won "Best side of Bacon" at the fair held October 17, 1917 in Ochlocknee. Fifteen hundred to two thousand people were in attendance. Source: page 3, Daily Times Enterprise, October 18, 1917. 1920, Enrolled in a Hog Feeding Contest to be staged in January 1913 and proposed by the Watermelon Growers' Association. Source: page 6, Daily Times Enterprise, October 29, 1920. Living with his son Willis and his family in 1930. He was enumerated as a widow. No obituary was found for James Thomas Thompson in the Thomasville Times-Enterprise newspaper.
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