AMERICA THE GREAT MELTING POT

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Sara Jane White

Born: 12 Dec 1842  Helt's Prairie, Vermillion Co., IN

"Aunt Sally Thompson" photo courtesy of Christy Morgan at [email protected];

photo of a photo found in scrapbook belonging to Martha White Helt

Married: 17 April 1886

Died: 10 June 1926 Vermillion Co., IN Buried: Helt's Prairie

"Sarah Jane 1842-1926"

The Hoosier State, Wednesday, June 16, 1926

FATHER

Enoch White

MOTHER

Lydia Hellenback

HUSBAND

Albert Thompson     died: 16 Oct 1888 Buried: Helt's Prairie Cemetery, Vermillion Co., IN

Albert B Thompson  Died Oct 16, 1888 aged 42 y 2 m 12 D

Martha White Helt wrote about her reminisces of her "great Aunt Sally."   "Another sister, Sarah Jane, married a Mr. Thompson.  He died before I can remember and all I ever heard of him was that he was a Civil War veteran.  Aunt "Sallie" lived alone in a small cottage.  A rather acid-tongued old lady with a heart of gold always wanting to "spice you up a good dinner" and equally ready to blister you if you crossed her path the wrong way.  Her prize statement in the annals of our family was her tart rejoinder to the local grocer.  Having ordered a dozen pickles she found on unwrapping her groceries that instead she had six pickles sliced in half making twelve pieces.  Bristling with anger, Aunt Sallie marched back to town, slammed the package on the counter and belligerently demanded if he "thought a pickle was a pickle or a half pickle was a pickle?"