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Nursing Sister Rev Edith Alexandra Suzanne <I>Murray</I> Thompson

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Nursing Sister Rev Edith Alexandra Suzanne Murray Thompson

Birth
Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death
13 Mar 1959 (aged 89)
Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, USA
Burial
Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section C, row 5
Memorial ID
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Edith Alexandra "Suzanne" Murray-Murray-Thompson was the daughter of William Murray and Martha Elliott of Halifax, NS. She was one of 10 siblings. Edith was trained as a nurse in Halifax at Queen Victoria Hospital, and served as a district nurse on the north shore of Massachusetts. She first married Edward Murray, and had a boy and a girl, Edward Stanley and Jean Marie. Edward died by a train accident and after nursing Rev William Thompson's wife, Margaret MacLaurin Thompson until her death, married the widow and had two daughters in Claudine Maria and Billy Joy. The circumstances surrounding her marriage to Rev Thompson caused much suspicion that led to a grand jury indictment for murder for the newlyweds (1899), which was dropped 10 years later (1909) when the Ipswich prosecutors office failed to bring the couple back to Ipswich, MA. Rev Thompson became a traveling evangelist throughout the west, both in Canada and the US from as far south as Texas, and west as California. Edith joined her husband in the pulpit and became the Rev Suzanne Thompson, and was a pastor in KeoKuk, Iowa at Keokuk Christian Church in 1909 and Bank Street Christian Church in 1910. The Rev Thompsons were of the Disciples of Christ denomination. In 1911 she becomes ill, resigns as pastor, and moved to Florida, following her newlywed daughter Jean, who had married Donald Charles Chesnut Sr. About the time WW1 broke out, Edith had moved back to Halifax were she had family, like her sister Ella Maud Murray, and joined the military efforts, becoming a Nursing Sister for the Canadian forces and lying about her age to get in. She may have converted to Catholicism at this time. She served in France during the war at the Canadian 9th Stationary Hospital. She returned to Halifax in 1919, and ended back up in Jacksonville for most of her remaining life.
Edith Alexandra "Suzanne" Murray-Murray-Thompson was the daughter of William Murray and Martha Elliott of Halifax, NS. She was one of 10 siblings. Edith was trained as a nurse in Halifax at Queen Victoria Hospital, and served as a district nurse on the north shore of Massachusetts. She first married Edward Murray, and had a boy and a girl, Edward Stanley and Jean Marie. Edward died by a train accident and after nursing Rev William Thompson's wife, Margaret MacLaurin Thompson until her death, married the widow and had two daughters in Claudine Maria and Billy Joy. The circumstances surrounding her marriage to Rev Thompson caused much suspicion that led to a grand jury indictment for murder for the newlyweds (1899), which was dropped 10 years later (1909) when the Ipswich prosecutors office failed to bring the couple back to Ipswich, MA. Rev Thompson became a traveling evangelist throughout the west, both in Canada and the US from as far south as Texas, and west as California. Edith joined her husband in the pulpit and became the Rev Suzanne Thompson, and was a pastor in KeoKuk, Iowa at Keokuk Christian Church in 1909 and Bank Street Christian Church in 1910. The Rev Thompsons were of the Disciples of Christ denomination. In 1911 she becomes ill, resigns as pastor, and moved to Florida, following her newlywed daughter Jean, who had married Donald Charles Chesnut Sr. About the time WW1 broke out, Edith had moved back to Halifax were she had family, like her sister Ella Maud Murray, and joined the military efforts, becoming a Nursing Sister for the Canadian forces and lying about her age to get in. She may have converted to Catholicism at this time. She served in France during the war at the Canadian 9th Stationary Hospital. She returned to Halifax in 1919, and ended back up in Jacksonville for most of her remaining life.


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