Tomales
Death of Charles T. Thompson
Our village flagstaff had its colors half mast on Monday, Dec. 18th, in respect for another pioneer of the valley who passed away.
Severe but mercifully short was the final death struggle of this genial man, a disease of the heart, inexorable in its fierce demands on the fortitude of the sufferer, being the primary cause. A skilled physician, a devoted wife, a personal friend, gave what was possible of human sympathy to a fellow mortal in this his final agony; heard his last words and met his dying gaze, and perhaps - who can tell - filled his thoughts with the solace of companionship to the exclusion of fears of dissolution.
Charles T. Thompson was born in Norway in 1836 and, like many of his hardy countrymen, had an adventurous career on sea and land. He was large of frame and large of heart. His friendship was broad and strong, and he had the faculty of making and keeping friends. He had diversified business talents and in his prosperity was generous to friends, generous to his would-be enemies, easy and social with his dependents and kind to his animals.
His weakness is touched upon in remarking these latter qualities; for as he was unwilling to cast off his comrades in labor, so did he in full but unwise fashion multiply his interests till at last he was overcome by his financial responsibilities. Here, then, lay his fault. Let those criticize harshly who will; but it is for his old associates in all these long years, who knew him so intimately, to believe that he, if spared, would have recovered his lost ground, have been once more the cheery, hearty Norman, the social, generous friend and the energetic center of his little world.
But the fates have decreed otherwise. A long, a last farewell!
Published Sausalito News
Dec. 22, 1893
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Child not linked
Charles W. Thompson
1868 Tomales
May 29, 1916 San Francisco
-married Grace Gail Collins 1911
Wife
Wilhelmena "Minnie" Butner Thompson
May 10, 1847 Philadelphia co. PA
June 30, 1875 San Francisco
Minnie had a sad and unfortunate life, and I recall it here for history sake, with all respect for her. May she rest in eternal peace.
All information is gleaned from Ancestry and newspaper articles, which are all public record.
Minnie arrived in California about 1862 and settled in Tomales soon thereafter. She gave birth to son, Charles, about June, 1868. In 1869, Minnie was court ordered to be sent to the Stockton Insane Asylum, arriving on May 26. It was noted that her mother was also insane. While inside the hospital, Minnie gave birth to daughter Carrie. Minnie was discharged on January 7, 1870. The 1870 census, finds the family enumerated in Tomales; Charles, Minnie, Charles, Jr. and Carrie. Minnie's condition is noted as "insane." That was August 4. On October 1, 1870, Carrie was again admitted to the asylum, where she spent the next five years. She was discharged from Stockton on June 30, 1875 and died the same day in San Francisco.
Death of Charles T. Thompson
Our village flagstaff had its colors half mast on Monday, Dec. 18th, in respect for another pioneer of the valley who passed away.
Severe but mercifully short was the final death struggle of this genial man, a disease of the heart, inexorable in its fierce demands on the fortitude of the sufferer, being the primary cause. A skilled physician, a devoted wife, a personal friend, gave what was possible of human sympathy to a fellow mortal in this his final agony; heard his last words and met his dying gaze, and perhaps - who can tell - filled his thoughts with the solace of companionship to the exclusion of fears of dissolution.
Charles T. Thompson was born in Norway in 1836 and, like many of his hardy countrymen, had an adventurous career on sea and land. He was large of frame and large of heart. His friendship was broad and strong, and he had the faculty of making and keeping friends. He had diversified business talents and in his prosperity was generous to friends, generous to his would-be enemies, easy and social with his dependents and kind to his animals.
His weakness is touched upon in remarking these latter qualities; for as he was unwilling to cast off his comrades in labor, so did he in full but unwise fashion multiply his interests till at last he was overcome by his financial responsibilities. Here, then, lay his fault. Let those criticize harshly who will; but it is for his old associates in all these long years, who knew him so intimately, to believe that he, if spared, would have recovered his lost ground, have been once more the cheery, hearty Norman, the social, generous friend and the energetic center of his little world.
But the fates have decreed otherwise. A long, a last farewell!
Published Sausalito News
Dec. 22, 1893
* * *
Child not linked
Charles W. Thompson
1868 Tomales
May 29, 1916 San Francisco
-married Grace Gail Collins 1911
Wife
Wilhelmena "Minnie" Butner Thompson
May 10, 1847 Philadelphia co. PA
June 30, 1875 San Francisco
Minnie had a sad and unfortunate life, and I recall it here for history sake, with all respect for her. May she rest in eternal peace.
All information is gleaned from Ancestry and newspaper articles, which are all public record.
Minnie arrived in California about 1862 and settled in Tomales soon thereafter. She gave birth to son, Charles, about June, 1868. In 1869, Minnie was court ordered to be sent to the Stockton Insane Asylum, arriving on May 26. It was noted that her mother was also insane. While inside the hospital, Minnie gave birth to daughter Carrie. Minnie was discharged on January 7, 1870. The 1870 census, finds the family enumerated in Tomales; Charles, Minnie, Charles, Jr. and Carrie. Minnie's condition is noted as "insane." That was August 4. On October 1, 1870, Carrie was again admitted to the asylum, where she spent the next five years. She was discharged from Stockton on June 30, 1875 and died the same day in San Francisco.
Tomales
Death of Charles T. Thompson
Our village flagstaff had its colors half mast on Monday, Dec. 18th, in respect for another pioneer of the valley who passed away.
Severe but mercifully short was the final death struggle of this genial man, a disease of the heart, inexorable in its fierce demands on the fortitude of the sufferer, being the primary cause. A skilled physician, a devoted wife, a personal friend, gave what was possible of human sympathy to a fellow mortal in this his final agony; heard his last words and met his dying gaze, and perhaps - who can tell - filled his thoughts with the solace of companionship to the exclusion of fears of dissolution.
Charles T. Thompson was born in Norway in 1836 and, like many of his hardy countrymen, had an adventurous career on sea and land. He was large of frame and large of heart. His friendship was broad and strong, and he had the faculty of making and keeping friends. He had diversified business talents and in his prosperity was generous to friends, generous to his would-be enemies, easy and social with his dependents and kind to his animals.
His weakness is touched upon in remarking these latter qualities; for as he was unwilling to cast off his comrades in labor, so did he in full but unwise fashion multiply his interests till at last he was overcome by his financial responsibilities. Here, then, lay his fault. Let those criticize harshly who will; but it is for his old associates in all these long years, who knew him so intimately, to believe that he, if spared, would have recovered his lost ground, have been once more the cheery, hearty Norman, the social, generous friend and the energetic center of his little world.
But the fates have decreed otherwise. A long, a last farewell!
Published Sausalito News
Dec. 22, 1893
* * *
Child not linked
Charles W. Thompson
1868 Tomales
May 29, 1916 San Francisco
-married Grace Gail Collins 1911
Wife
Wilhelmena "Minnie" Butner Thompson
May 10, 1847 Philadelphia co. PA
June 30, 1875 San Francisco
Minnie had a sad and unfortunate life, and I recall it here for history sake, with all respect for her. May she rest in eternal peace.
All information is gleaned from Ancestry and newspaper articles, which are all public record.
Minnie arrived in California about 1862 and settled in Tomales soon thereafter. She gave birth to son, Charles, about June, 1868. In 1869, Minnie was court ordered to be sent to the Stockton Insane Asylum, arriving on May 26. It was noted that her mother was also insane. While inside the hospital, Minnie gave birth to daughter Carrie. Minnie was discharged on January 7, 1870. The 1870 census, finds the family enumerated in Tomales; Charles, Minnie, Charles, Jr. and Carrie. Minnie's condition is noted as "insane." That was August 4. On October 1, 1870, Carrie was again admitted to the asylum, where she spent the next five years. She was discharged from Stockton on June 30, 1875 and died the same day in San Francisco.
Death of Charles T. Thompson
Our village flagstaff had its colors half mast on Monday, Dec. 18th, in respect for another pioneer of the valley who passed away.
Severe but mercifully short was the final death struggle of this genial man, a disease of the heart, inexorable in its fierce demands on the fortitude of the sufferer, being the primary cause. A skilled physician, a devoted wife, a personal friend, gave what was possible of human sympathy to a fellow mortal in this his final agony; heard his last words and met his dying gaze, and perhaps - who can tell - filled his thoughts with the solace of companionship to the exclusion of fears of dissolution.
Charles T. Thompson was born in Norway in 1836 and, like many of his hardy countrymen, had an adventurous career on sea and land. He was large of frame and large of heart. His friendship was broad and strong, and he had the faculty of making and keeping friends. He had diversified business talents and in his prosperity was generous to friends, generous to his would-be enemies, easy and social with his dependents and kind to his animals.
His weakness is touched upon in remarking these latter qualities; for as he was unwilling to cast off his comrades in labor, so did he in full but unwise fashion multiply his interests till at last he was overcome by his financial responsibilities. Here, then, lay his fault. Let those criticize harshly who will; but it is for his old associates in all these long years, who knew him so intimately, to believe that he, if spared, would have recovered his lost ground, have been once more the cheery, hearty Norman, the social, generous friend and the energetic center of his little world.
But the fates have decreed otherwise. A long, a last farewell!
Published Sausalito News
Dec. 22, 1893
* * *
Child not linked
Charles W. Thompson
1868 Tomales
May 29, 1916 San Francisco
-married Grace Gail Collins 1911
Wife
Wilhelmena "Minnie" Butner Thompson
May 10, 1847 Philadelphia co. PA
June 30, 1875 San Francisco
Minnie had a sad and unfortunate life, and I recall it here for history sake, with all respect for her. May she rest in eternal peace.
All information is gleaned from Ancestry and newspaper articles, which are all public record.
Minnie arrived in California about 1862 and settled in Tomales soon thereafter. She gave birth to son, Charles, about June, 1868. In 1869, Minnie was court ordered to be sent to the Stockton Insane Asylum, arriving on May 26. It was noted that her mother was also insane. While inside the hospital, Minnie gave birth to daughter Carrie. Minnie was discharged on January 7, 1870. The 1870 census, finds the family enumerated in Tomales; Charles, Minnie, Charles, Jr. and Carrie. Minnie's condition is noted as "insane." That was August 4. On October 1, 1870, Carrie was again admitted to the asylum, where she spent the next five years. She was discharged from Stockton on June 30, 1875 and died the same day in San Francisco.
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