Cultural Resources Survey of Thompson Estates Cobb County, Georgia

R. S. Webb & Associates (RSWA) conducted chain-of-title research on the Thompson Estates project tract at the Cobb County Courthouse on January 5, 2006. The results are presented below. It is unknown who originally drew Land Lot 245 of the 20th District, Second Section, Cobb County, Georgia in 1832, and the owner of the property before 1886 is, likewise, unknown. William and Joseph Green moved to Georgia about 1814, subsequently moved to Henry County, and then into Cobb County. They settled and established farms on the Marietta-Dallas Road, well south of the project area. Joseph Green's third son, Joel A. Green, first married a neighbor, Martha Ballenger, and he later married S. Fanny Mayes of another pioneer Cobb County family. The project tract belonged to the Joel A. Green estate at the time of his death around 1886, but it is not known when he purchased the tract or if he resided in the project area. The 1880 U.S. Census listed Joel A. Green as a resident of Militia District #898, in the project vicinity The 1901 Cobb County Soil Survey Map shows a structure in the approximate location of Site 9C0691. The earliest recorded deed for Land Lots 245 and 246 of the 20th District was made on December 28, 1886, when S. F. Green, acting as executrix of the Joel A. Green estate, sold the east half of Land Lot 245 (80 acres) and 40 acres in the west and southwest portions of Land Lot 246 to John R. Winters for $600 (Cobb County Deed Book [CCDB] J:35). John R. Winters sold property of the same description, and for the same amount, to Mrs. Clara Green on January 5, 1893 (CCDB Q:437). Mrs. Green also purchased those portions of Land Lots 245 and 246 south of the railroad, and the northeast comer of Land Lot 249, from W. R. Chandler in November 1893 (CCDB R:595). The same property (with additional purchases) was sold by George M. Green to James T. Anderson, the cashier of Cobb County, for $75 in 1896. The low relative price of the latter sale suggests that Green and Anderson were related in some way. This is further supported by a deed dated December 10, 1901, when George D. Anderson and E. P. Green sold the property, along with an additional25 acres of Land Lot 245 and 246 and part of Land Lot 211, to S. K. Dick for $2,000 (CCDB AA:696). S. K. Dick held the property for only four years before he sold it to Sam P. Jones of Bartow County for $2,448.34 on April28, 1905 (CCDB FF:465), and Mrs. Sam P. Jones sold the property in 1910, along with land south of the railroad purchased by Jones in 1906, to W. D. Cross for $2,500 (CCDB 00:135).