Mrs. Rebecca McPheeters Thompson, widow of Jesse Thompson, died Sunday morning of heart disease. She was born on what is known as the Henry Pierson farm west of Danville Nov.6, 1834. She was aged sixty-seven years and five months. All her life was spent in Hendricks county and all but a few years in Danville. She and Jesse Thompson were married Oct. 2, 1849, he passing to the beyond August 24,1900. To them were born eleven children, two dying in infancy, nine surviving - Samuel L., Lawrence M., Arthur G., Cyrus L., Nathan J, William J., Miss Jessie, Miss Anna and Mrs. Julia Warner. Hers was a happy home life. As a wife she was faithful and true, as a mother she was ideal and her death leaves a vacancy that can never be filled and a home circle broken beyond repair. The funeral was at her late home Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Hovis conducted the services which were of a quiet nature in accordance with her wish. The scripture lesson was from John 19:30 and the speaker gave some most appropriate and consoling remarks, admonishing all to a higher and nobler life. The music was furnished by a quartette composed of Mrs. J. E. Newman, Mrs. E. M. Wilhite and Messrs. Clark Howell and S. L. McCurdy. The interment was in the east cemetery and a most unusual and pathetic scene was when the six sons, all over six feet in height, strong stalwart men, acting as pall bearers, bore the casket containing the remains of their mother and lowered it in the last resting place.
Mrs. Rebecca McPheeters Thompson, widow of Jesse Thompson, died Sunday morning of heart disease. She was born on what is known as the Henry Pierson farm west of Danville Nov.6, 1834. She was aged sixty-seven years and five months. All her life was spent in Hendricks county and all but a few years in Danville. She and Jesse Thompson were married Oct. 2, 1849, he passing to the beyond August 24,1900. To them were born eleven children, two dying in infancy, nine surviving - Samuel L., Lawrence M., Arthur G., Cyrus L., Nathan J, William J., Miss Jessie, Miss Anna and Mrs. Julia Warner. Hers was a happy home life. As a wife she was faithful and true, as a mother she was ideal and her death leaves a vacancy that can never be filled and a home circle broken beyond repair. The funeral was at her late home Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Hovis conducted the services which were of a quiet nature in accordance with her wish. The scripture lesson was from John 19:30 and the speaker gave some most appropriate and consoling remarks, admonishing all to a higher and nobler life. The music was furnished by a quartette composed of Mrs. J. E. Newman, Mrs. E. M. Wilhite and Messrs. Clark Howell and S. L. McCurdy. The interment was in the east cemetery and a most unusual and pathetic scene was when the six sons, all over six feet in height, strong stalwart men, acting as pall bearers, bore the casket containing the remains of their mother and lowered it in the last resting place.
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Lawrence M. Thompson
1850–1917
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Arthur Garrett Thompson
1853–1920
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Nathan John Thompson
1855–1927
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Cyrus L Thompson
1857–1931
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Sam Thompson
1860–1922
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Jessie May Thompson
1863–1946
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William Joseph "Humphrey" Thompson
1866–1940
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Julia Sylvania Thompson Warner
1868–1920
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Charlie R. Thompson
1871–1872
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Anna Eliza Thompson Blair
1877–1955
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Ethan Thompson
1878–1878
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