THANKS KIM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim & Roger Hancock" <hancock@link2000.net> To: <INMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 4:35 PM Subject: [InMontgo] Susannah Snyder Thompson Obit please add > SUSANNAH SNYDER THOMPSON > > Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Saturday, March 5, 1904 > > Susannah Snyder was born at Daton, O., on July 22, 1841. She came to > this county in 1855 and was married to James Thompson on September 2, > 1858. > Mrs. Thompson was the mother of twelve children, ten of whom survive her, > three sons, Andrew and William of Yountsville, and Charles of Lafayette. > The seven daughters, Mrs. Robert Lydick and Mrs. Thomas Harp, of > Yountsville; Mrs, E.N. Ball, of Tampa, Fla.; Mrs, Frank VanDyke of Delphi: > Mrs, Dan Yount, of Bloomington, Ill., Mrs, O.H. Hutchings and Mrs. W.A. > Walters, of Crawfordsville, were all present at the time of her death. > She > leaves only one brother, Mr. O.N. Snyder, of Mitchellville, Ia. > In the year 1900 Mrs. Thompson united with the Christian church in > which she has been an earnest worker. > On the 9th day of last May, her husband, James Thompson, died leaving > her broken in spirit and health. She often expressed a desire that she > might follow him, and when the grim reaper came it found not only prepared > but anxious and willing to go and join him with whom she had spent a happy > and useful life. > She will be missed in many homes where her tender and watchfull care > has nursed back to like some member of their family. > She was a devoted and loving mother. Her life has been a useful one > and though her death is our loss it is heaven's gain. > The funeral services were held at the home near Yountsville Friday > afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by J.P. Stafford, pastor of the > Yountsville <. E. church. Internment in Thompson's cemetery. Among the > beautiful floral offerings was one sent by the Lafayette fire department > of > which Mrs. Thompson's son Charles is a member; also one came form the firm > of Foley Brothers of Paris, Ill., with which Otis Hutchings, a son-in-law > is > connected. > > http://ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/ > > List Manager - inmontgo-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INMONTGO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message