AGED RESIDENT DIED EARLY TODAY

Funeral Services for John Lewis Thompson, Who Died of Heart Trouble, to Be Saturday

People throughout the county will be grieved to hear of the death of one of the oldest and most respected citizens in this section, John Lewis Thompson, who passed away this morning at four o'clock at his home north of Shelbyville on the Knightstown road. The death of this outstanding man was caused from the effects of a chronic case of heart trouble from which he had suffered for more than a year.

Funeral services will be conducted from the late home Saturday afternoon at two-thirty o-clock with the Rev. Josephine Campbell, pastor of the Trinity Methodist church of this city, officiating. Burial is to be made in Forest Hill cemetery in charge of Charles M. Ewing, funeral director.

Mr. Thompson was born in Shelby county, March 26, 1856, and was at the time of death seventy-two years, five months and fourteen days old. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Thompson and had spent almost the whole of his life in this county.

On January 9, 1879, he was united in marriage to Miss Harriet Cooley and to their union were born five children, who all survive with the mother to mourn his death. The children are Mrs. Ann Stafford, at home; Mrs. Laurence McNew, of Jennings county; Mrs. Dale McNew, of Marion county; Mrs. Frank Dunn, of Shelbyville; and Edward Thompson of Moral township. He also leaves eighteen grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

There are also three brothers. Jesse and Charles, both of Waldron, and Larry of Colorado; also two sisters, Mrs. A. D. Roach, of Shelbyville, and Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, of Connersville.