Thompson Sibling Obits - Children of Solomon R Thompson

© Kathy Duncan, 2019

Solomon R. Thompson, son of Lodowick and Priscilla (Reeves) Thompson, was born 25 May 1804 in South Carolina and died 9 May 1882 in Lancaster County, South Carolina. He had three known children:

1. Rev. Eugene W[illiam] Thompson
2. Elizabeth Ann Rebecca (Thompson) Kelley
3. Henrietta Southerland (Thompson) Floyd

The obituaries of these siblings are arranged in order of their dates of death:

Rev. Eugene W[illiam] Thompson died on 5 April 1877. His death was off by a day in this death notice from the Raleigh, Observer. This notice was a reprint from the Burke Blade. Note that no next of kin is mentioned.

Henrietta Southerland (Thompson) Floyd died in the fall of 1925 in Winfield, Titus County, Texas. Her obituary has not been found, but her death was mentioned in the obituary of her husband, James Winfield Floyd, who died the following year. J. W. Floyd's obituary appeared in The Mount Pleasant Dialy Times on Friday 7 May 1926. His obituary lists his surviving children: Mrs. S.A. Thomas, Mrs. Della Owens, Mrs. Robert Landrum, Mrs. L.E. May, Shell Floyd, Charles Floyd, Mrs. C. R. Gingles, and Mrs. J.A. Buchanan.

Elizabeth Ann Rebecca (Thompson) Kelley's obituary appeared in The Mount Pleasant Daily Times on 10 January 1935:

“Mrs. Eliza Kelley died Wednesday [January 9, 1935] at the home of her son Richard S. Kelley at Ripley following a stroke at age 90. She would have been 91 in June. She was a native of South Carolina and moved to Texas 40 years ago. She had been living with Richard for the past 15 years. Survivors include, three sons, three daughters; Pink Kelley of Quincy, Florida; Will Kelley of Cass County, Texas; Frank Kelley; Mrs. Edna Foster of Wichita Falls, Texas; Mrs. Bessie Brown of Clarksville, Texas; and Mrs. Annie Price of Fort Worth, Texas. Funeral services and burial was at Bridges Chapel Methodist Church north of Mount Pleasant, Texas.”