Hugh Thomas Thomson (1923)
BARD, BECK, KENCH, SURRETT, THOMSON
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
January 3, 1924, page 1Death Of Hugh Thomson
Hugh Thomson of Jackson township, died on Monday December 31st after a weeks illness from pleurisy, which resulted in pnuemonia. He would have been 77 years of age in February.
Mr. Thomson came to Madison county in 1867 and spent the major portion of his life here. Surviving him are two daughters and three sons, Mrs. Nan Surrett, of Springfield, Ill.; Mrs. Bess Kench, of Woodstock, Minn., Ray, also of Woodstock, Leonard of Tingley and Will M. of Jackson township. Funeral services were held today at 2 o'clock at Pitzer, conducted by Rev. C. H. McClure. Burial was made in the Stringtown cemetery.
________________________The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, January 17, 1924
Page 3, Column 3Hugh Thompson
Hugh, son of Samuel and Elizabeth McRobert Thomson, was born near Greenock, Scotland, February 28th 1847. At the age of nine he came to the United Sates with his parents settling in Henderson county Ill. There they resided until 1867 when they came to Madison county, Iowa.
He was united in marriage with Cynthia Ann Bard of the home community on September 14th, 1871, and to them were born six children, Hugh Caldwell, William McRobert, Lenord Samuel, Bessie Agnew, Nannie Bard and Ray Sherman. Following their marriage the home was made in Madison county until 1888 when they removed to Nebraska. There they made their home until 1906 when they returned to Madison county for residence for the succeeding years of their lives.
The oldest son Hugh died in 1909 and Mrs. Thompson in 1914. Of the immediate relatives, there survive to mourn his home going, four sisters, five children, twelve grandchildren and three great grandchildren, his bosom friend and brother-in-law, James Beck, and numerous other relatives and friends, one sister with his parents having preceeded him to the heavenly home.
He early untied with the church and cheerfully served in whatever way he was called to employ his abilities. His emphasis in life was on goodness; he spoke of the goodness of his mother, of his wife, and of his friends and acquaintances as well as his relatives. The early history of the Pitzer congregation prepared by him and read at its semi centennial was quite characteristic of the man. His ministers were his honored friends and he was their honored friends and he was their chosen ruling elder in 1884 and was an honorer of the office under the rotary plan at the time of his death. He was progressive and forward looking. He believed that “Godliness is profitable unto all things having promise of the life that now is and that which is to come.” He walked with God and was not for God took him.” He was the sole surviving charter member of the Pitzer congregation connected with it at his death, December 31st, 1923.
________________________Coordinator's note: Transcribed as published, son "Lenord" should be "Leonard".
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