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John S. Thompson

26 Jan 1858 – 19 May 1936

Birth	26 Jan 1858
Death	19 May 1936
Cemetery	Lower Valley Memorial Gardens Sunnyside , Yakima County , Washington , USA
Added by	Kerry L. Turley on 21 Mar 2020
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38091901

Bio

Son of George T. THOMPSON and Catherine F. SELLERS. Born January 26, 1858, in Iowa. John's father, George, drowned in the Platte River on March 8, 1859, when John was barely a year old. His mother, Catherine (Sellers) Thompson, remarried to Madison Sullivan on September 19, 1869, in Ringgold County, Iowa. John and his older brother, William Henry Thompson, remained with their paternal grandparents, Jesse and Jane (Dodson) Thompson, and were raised by them. Unknown when John came to Sunnyside though it was by 1920. In 1929, John had a 3 foot concrete wall constructed around the burial locations of a dozen or more family members in "Thompson Cemetery" in Ringgold County, Iowa, including the gravesites of his mother, father, paternal grandparents, and even his step-father. The "Thompson Cemetery" is present-day located in the midst of a bluegrass pasture. The gravesites enclosed with the 3 foot wall that John S. Thompson had constructed in 1929 are the only ones still in existence.

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Parents

• George T. Thompson 1833–1859 FaG
• Catherine Elizabeth Sellers Sullivan 1836–1882

Siblings

• William H. Thompson 1855–1949
• Mary Jane Sullivan Farmer 1872–1935
• Laura Sullivan Hunter 1874–1902

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