1913 Extracts from Barry County, MO, Newspapers
An interlibrary loan of microfilm from the State Historical Society of MO was the source of the below given data. Extracts from Barry County, MO, Newspapers

Extracted by: Donna Cooper, Coordinator
December 18, 1913, Thursday, Cassville Republican, Barry Co., MO


Dead: Caldonia Frances Thompson, wife of B.F. Thompson, passed to her eternal home early Friday morning December 12, 1913, at the family home in the west part of town after about two weeks sickness of typhoid fever.

Mrs. Thompson has not been enjoying the best of health for some years although she had been able to attend to the duties about the home. About the first of December she was taken sick and typhoid developed and took her away with only a short struggle. Her days of intense suffering were few, which is a great consolation to the bereaved members of the family.

Mrs. Thompson was born March 28, 1856 in Carroll County, Ark., and moved with her parents, the late Eli and Jane Dunlap to Barry County and settled in the Horner locality southwest of town soon after the war. She was married to B. F. Thompson, Dec. 12, 1875 the day of her death being the 38 anniversary of their marriage. She was the mother of eight children all living. They are Charley, John, Will and Misses Minnie, Maggie, Mary , Zua and Kate. She also leaves four sisters: Mrs. Margarett Wilmouth, Mrs. Hannah Joslin, Mrs. Mollie Johnson and Miss Lizzie Dunlap, all of who resided in the vicinity of Cassville.

Mrs. Thompson made a profession of religion at the age of sixteen and united with the Christian Church. Since that time her life was devoted to Christ and in her death the family has lost a loving, devoted and sacrificing mother.

The funeral services were held at the family residence Saturday afternoon, conducted by Rev. G. S. Yarbrough and the body was laid to rest in the Oak Hill Cemetery.

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Claud, son of Tone Edens, died early Monday morning, at his father's home in this city following an illness of several months, aged about 26 years. Typhoid fever took hold of the young man's life last May while living at Oklahoma City. Pneumonia made its development and later on tuberculosis from which disease his life was gradually taken. He had been living at home since last September. His body was taken Monday to Berryville, Ark., where interment was made Tuesday.
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