Obituary ---- Anvil of Uncle Geo. Thompson Rings No More - It's Master Passes Away - Veteran Town Blacksmith, Weakened by Long Illness, Answers Summons From His Master To Come Home. October 29, 1931.
The anvil of our veteran town blacksmith is as silent as death and smoke no longer eminates from the crack in the wall of the old shop on the alley between Third and Fourth street. - "Uncle George" Thompson is no more.
The veteran blacksmith passed peacefully away at his home on Pine avenue and Fifth street Thursday afternoon, October 22, at 2 o'clock, after a brief illness. Funeral services were held the following day at 10:00 o'clock a.m., at the American Legion hall conducted by Rev. Keith T. Postlethwaite, pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian church of this city, and interment followed in the city cemetery beside his wife.
We are told that many callers at the stand where "Uncle George" as was familiarly known and who happened not to know of the death of its owner, have diligently inquired as to why the doors were closed and the fires drawn, only to be turned away by the intelligence that the hand that these many years operated the antiquated bellows is stilled in death.
George Washington Thompson was born in the Battle Creek settlement on the 8th day of September 1868, the son of Nancy and Samuel Thompson. He spent his early boyhood roaming the hills of this mountaineous section in quest of squirrel and wild turkey and in helping his father till the soil in the summer months. He attended the district school and, as was the case with many of the boys of this early period, procured a very scant education. On the 10th day of February, 1889, he was married to Mary Jane Smith and to this union four children were born; three girls, Mrs. Everett Raulston, Frankie Lee and Mrs. West Taylor; one boy Horace. Mrs. Taylor and some grandchildren are the only surviving members of the family, the wife having preceded him to the grave on March 20, 1927.
"Uncle George" Thompson, as he was familiarly known, was a good citizen in many ways. He was not pretentious and not given to make a show of the good deeds he was inclined to do. His record will show that he was in a great measure a good Samaritan. He was a man acquainted with sorrow and grief and a man who proved faithful to those entrusted to his care until the last. He was a stickler for the fraternal societies in which he held membership but never seemed inclined to the church and its activities.
The pallbearers were: James Hawk, D. Y. Conatser, Rev. J. H. Scissom, Dexter Hughes, N. L. Burkhalter, T. M. Wiseman.
We join the host of friends of the deceased in extending sympathy to the bereaved ones. From the South Pittsburg Hustler 10/29/1931
The anvil of our veteran town blacksmith is as silent as death and smoke no longer eminates from the crack in the wall of the old shop on the alley between Third and Fourth street. - "Uncle George" Thompson is no more.
The veteran blacksmith passed peacefully away at his home on Pine avenue and Fifth street Thursday afternoon, October 22, at 2 o'clock, after a brief illness. Funeral services were held the following day at 10:00 o'clock a.m., at the American Legion hall conducted by Rev. Keith T. Postlethwaite, pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian church of this city, and interment followed in the city cemetery beside his wife.
We are told that many callers at the stand where "Uncle George" as was familiarly known and who happened not to know of the death of its owner, have diligently inquired as to why the doors were closed and the fires drawn, only to be turned away by the intelligence that the hand that these many years operated the antiquated bellows is stilled in death.
George Washington Thompson was born in the Battle Creek settlement on the 8th day of September 1868, the son of Nancy and Samuel Thompson. He spent his early boyhood roaming the hills of this mountaineous section in quest of squirrel and wild turkey and in helping his father till the soil in the summer months. He attended the district school and, as was the case with many of the boys of this early period, procured a very scant education. On the 10th day of February, 1889, he was married to Mary Jane Smith and to this union four children were born; three girls, Mrs. Everett Raulston, Frankie Lee and Mrs. West Taylor; one boy Horace. Mrs. Taylor and some grandchildren are the only surviving members of the family, the wife having preceded him to the grave on March 20, 1927.
"Uncle George" Thompson, as he was familiarly known, was a good citizen in many ways. He was not pretentious and not given to make a show of the good deeds he was inclined to do. His record will show that he was in a great measure a good Samaritan. He was a man acquainted with sorrow and grief and a man who proved faithful to those entrusted to his care until the last. He was a stickler for the fraternal societies in which he held membership but never seemed inclined to the church and its activities.
The pallbearers were: James Hawk, D. Y. Conatser, Rev. J. H. Scissom, Dexter Hughes, N. L. Burkhalter, T. M. Wiseman.
We join the host of friends of the deceased in extending sympathy to the bereaved ones. From the South Pittsburg Hustler 10/29/1931
Obituary ---- Anvil of Uncle Geo. Thompson Rings No More - It's Master Passes Away - Veteran Town Blacksmith, Weakened by Long Illness, Answers Summons From His Master To Come Home. October 29, 1931.
The anvil of our veteran town blacksmith is as silent as death and smoke no longer eminates from the crack in the wall of the old shop on the alley between Third and Fourth street. - "Uncle George" Thompson is no more.
The veteran blacksmith passed peacefully away at his home on Pine avenue and Fifth street Thursday afternoon, October 22, at 2 o'clock, after a brief illness. Funeral services were held the following day at 10:00 o'clock a.m., at the American Legion hall conducted by Rev. Keith T. Postlethwaite, pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian church of this city, and interment followed in the city cemetery beside his wife.
We are told that many callers at the stand where "Uncle George" as was familiarly known and who happened not to know of the death of its owner, have diligently inquired as to why the doors were closed and the fires drawn, only to be turned away by the intelligence that the hand that these many years operated the antiquated bellows is stilled in death.
George Washington Thompson was born in the Battle Creek settlement on the 8th day of September 1868, the son of Nancy and Samuel Thompson. He spent his early boyhood roaming the hills of this mountaineous section in quest of squirrel and wild turkey and in helping his father till the soil in the summer months. He attended the district school and, as was the case with many of the boys of this early period, procured a very scant education. On the 10th day of February, 1889, he was married to Mary Jane Smith and to this union four children were born; three girls, Mrs. Everett Raulston, Frankie Lee and Mrs. West Taylor; one boy Horace. Mrs. Taylor and some grandchildren are the only surviving members of the family, the wife having preceded him to the grave on March 20, 1927.
"Uncle George" Thompson, as he was familiarly known, was a good citizen in many ways. He was not pretentious and not given to make a show of the good deeds he was inclined to do. His record will show that he was in a great measure a good Samaritan. He was a man acquainted with sorrow and grief and a man who proved faithful to those entrusted to his care until the last. He was a stickler for the fraternal societies in which he held membership but never seemed inclined to the church and its activities.
The pallbearers were: James Hawk, D. Y. Conatser, Rev. J. H. Scissom, Dexter Hughes, N. L. Burkhalter, T. M. Wiseman.
We join the host of friends of the deceased in extending sympathy to the bereaved ones. From the South Pittsburg Hustler 10/29/1931
The anvil of our veteran town blacksmith is as silent as death and smoke no longer eminates from the crack in the wall of the old shop on the alley between Third and Fourth street. - "Uncle George" Thompson is no more.
The veteran blacksmith passed peacefully away at his home on Pine avenue and Fifth street Thursday afternoon, October 22, at 2 o'clock, after a brief illness. Funeral services were held the following day at 10:00 o'clock a.m., at the American Legion hall conducted by Rev. Keith T. Postlethwaite, pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian church of this city, and interment followed in the city cemetery beside his wife.
We are told that many callers at the stand where "Uncle George" as was familiarly known and who happened not to know of the death of its owner, have diligently inquired as to why the doors were closed and the fires drawn, only to be turned away by the intelligence that the hand that these many years operated the antiquated bellows is stilled in death.
George Washington Thompson was born in the Battle Creek settlement on the 8th day of September 1868, the son of Nancy and Samuel Thompson. He spent his early boyhood roaming the hills of this mountaineous section in quest of squirrel and wild turkey and in helping his father till the soil in the summer months. He attended the district school and, as was the case with many of the boys of this early period, procured a very scant education. On the 10th day of February, 1889, he was married to Mary Jane Smith and to this union four children were born; three girls, Mrs. Everett Raulston, Frankie Lee and Mrs. West Taylor; one boy Horace. Mrs. Taylor and some grandchildren are the only surviving members of the family, the wife having preceded him to the grave on March 20, 1927.
"Uncle George" Thompson, as he was familiarly known, was a good citizen in many ways. He was not pretentious and not given to make a show of the good deeds he was inclined to do. His record will show that he was in a great measure a good Samaritan. He was a man acquainted with sorrow and grief and a man who proved faithful to those entrusted to his care until the last. He was a stickler for the fraternal societies in which he held membership but never seemed inclined to the church and its activities.
The pallbearers were: James Hawk, D. Y. Conatser, Rev. J. H. Scissom, Dexter Hughes, N. L. Burkhalter, T. M. Wiseman.
We join the host of friends of the deceased in extending sympathy to the bereaved ones. From the South Pittsburg Hustler 10/29/1931
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