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Jessie (Grosscup) Thompson (1902)

THOMPSON, GROSSCUP

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 8/12/2006 at 18:23:33

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
July 10, 1902

MRS. HOMER THOMPSON Is Dead

Mrs. Homer (Jessie) Thompson, wife of the senior editor of this paper, died soon after twelve o'clock today at the Homeopathic hospital at Iowa City, where she was taken two weeks ago today in hopes that with the best medical skill and careful nursing her health might be restored but it was not to be. She rallied for a time but on Monday of this week a change for the worse set in and continued until the end.

Her father, two sisters, and son Mark, besides Mr. Thompson were with her at Iowa City.

The funeral services will be held here on Sunday afternoon.
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Winterset Madisonian – July 17, 1902
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Obituary

Jessie Grosscup was born in Ashland county, Ohio April 15, 1857, where her early life was spent. She graduated from the public schools of the city of Ashland and became a teacher. In 1876 she emigrated with her father’s family to Madison county, Iowa, and resumed her occupation of teaching. In the fall of 1879 she returned to Ohio, and for awhile worked in the office with her brother, who was county auditor, then again taught school there, and later at Charlotte, Mich. In the spring of 1881 she returned to Iowa, and again engaged in teaching. In 1881-1882 she was a student in the State University at Iowa City. She afterwards taught in the public schools of Winterset and Des Moines.

She was brought up in the ancestral faith of her father’s family, that of the Lutheran church, and some years after her marriage she transferred her membership to the Methodist Episcopal church, of which she was a member at the time of her death.

February 5, 1885 she was married to Homer Thompson of Winterset, then, as now, one of the publishers of the WINTERSET MADISONIAN, and here (Unreadable). For two years they resided in Indianola. To them was born one son, Mark Thompson, now just past 14 years of age.

In the spring of 1901 her health began to fail her, partially recovered during the summer and early fall. During the last winter she began to decline again rapidly, baffling the best medical skill obtained. In the month of June 1902, she went to the home of her sister, Mrs. S. P. Fry, at Iowa City, in the hope------- with a change of surroundings, would be beneficial to her. It did seem to have that effect for a few days, but a relapse came and she ------. Her husband went to her bedside -------- and upon the advice of a physician, she was taken on Thursday, June 26, to the State University Homeopathic hospital. There she had ever care that skill and devotion to duty could furnish. But it was soon evident that her disease, tuberculosis of the bowels, had already done its fatal work. Her death occurred at 12:15 p.m. Thursday, July 10, 1902.

The remains were brought back to Winterset for burial. The funeral services were held at the residence at 2:30 Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Chas. J. English, pastor of the Methodist church, Rev. E. R. Zeller, a local minister and close friend of the family, assisted by Rev. Ely, --------. A large concourse of sorrowing friends by their presence, their kindly attention, and by the wealth of floral offerings that filled the house, testified their regard for the departed.

Besides her husband and son she leaves of her immediate family an aged father, now past 80, Daniel Grosscup of Maple Grove, two unmarried sisters who live with their father, and one other sister, Mrs. S. P. Fry, who resides near Iowa City, three brothers, Luther Grosscup of Decatur county, E. J. Grosscup of Ashland, O., and Rev. D. P. Grosscup of Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was a cousin of Judge P. S. Grosscup, of the U.S. circuit court, Chicago.

(Burial was made in the Winterset cemetery)

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