Martin Luther Thompson

He married Inez Monterey Fannin at Camp Colorado, Coleman County, Texas, on June 22, 1876.

Inez who was born on May 15, 1860, at the Mount Tabor Indian Community in Rusk County, Texas, was the daughter of William Moore Fannin (1833–1877) a mixed blood Choctaw, and Sarah Horton (1840–1928) who was also a mixed blood Indian of Choctaw, Chickasaw and Cherokee ancestry.

[8] During the period of the Dawes Commission building of a Final Roll of the Five Civilized Tribes (1895–1907), Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians could live any place they close within the two nations.

Those that did relocate to Indian Territory from east Texas settled in or near the town of Marlow, Oklahoma, where William C. Thompson later served as Mayor.

While the overall leadership moved from William Penn Adair[9] until his death in Washington, D.C., in 1880, for a period it was again centered in Texas through John Martin Thompson.

From this conflict, the word Choctaw was scratched off the documents that were to be a part of the brief submitted to the United States Supreme Court in 1921.

Although his family was not able to be listed as citizens by blood on the Final Rolls of the Choctaw Nation,[15] his return to Texas was for the best.