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From: Diana S Flynn <>
Subject: [INLAWREN-OBITS] MARY ANN LEE THOMPSON - 1898
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:50:42 -0400


BEDFORD DEMOCRAT
BEDFORD, INDIANA
FRIDAY, OCT. 28, 1898

LEESVILLE

Mrs. R. D. Thompson, who has been sick for two months with typhoid fever,
died Wednesday morning at 2 o'clock at her residence in our town. Mary
Ann Lee was born in 1837 and married to Robert D. Thompson in 1861, in
Washington county. She joined the Christian church in 1859, and after
moving to Leesville joined the Baptist church in 1868. She was a few days
passed 61 years of age. Five children were born to her, two boys and
three girls. One boy preceded her to that happy land several years ago,
God calling him when he was very small. He stands waiting on the golden
shore to welcome his loving mother. She was a good wife, a loving
mother, a kind neighbor – so good to the poor and needy – but God saw fit
to call her to her home beyond the skies. Friends and neighbors mingled
their tears with her children's in their sad bereavement of losing their
cherished mother, but she has gone to prepare a home for them. We will
say to her loved ones here, live so you will meet your mother on that
bright and shining shore where there is no sickness nor death, for God
has promised a home to them that are faithful. She was laid to rest in
the Shield's cemetery, there to await the second call. Her funeral
discourse was preached by Rev. Allen Kenningworth, of Tunnelton, Thursday
Oct. 20, 1898.

I've no mother, now, I'm weeping.
She has left me here alone.
She beneath the sod is sleeping.
And there is no joy at home.
Tears of sorrow long have started.
Her bright smiles no more I'll see,
And the loved ones, too have parted –
Where, Oh where is joy for me.

Oh, you who have a mother, dear,
Let not a word or not give pain,
But cherish, love her, with your life.
You can never have her like again.
Then when from you she is called away,
Across deaths' dark and troubled tide,
In pain with me you then will say,
I'm lonely since my mother died.

NOTE: Mary Ann Thompson: 26 Feb 1837 – 19 Oct 1898. Wife of Robert D.
Burial at Shields Leesville Cemetery, Guthrie Twp.

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