St. Clair County Obits

IDA THOMPSON

St. Clair County Republican, 2 December 1897
Rainy Dew Drops
The largest crowd ever assembled at Old Union was there last Sunday to pay the last tribute of respect on earth to Mrs. Ida Thompson.

St. Clair County Republican, 2 December 1897
Died, On Saturday morning, November 27th, at her home near Cobb City, Mrs. Ida, wife of William Thompson, and eldest daughter of William Farrar, aged twenty-eight years and eleven weeks. Deceased was married to Mr. Thompson on her twenty-eighth birthday and therefore was a bride of only eleven weeks, the last four of which she was confined to her bed and suffered all that a mortal could, yet bearing up with all the Christian fortitude of a true follower of the meek and lowly and was conscious until death struck her which was about fifteen hours before she passed over the dark river into the unknown, and even during the last days of her suffering she would at times burst forth in strains of almost angelic sweetness and sing through one of the sweet songs of Zion, after which she would lie still and suffer on and on until the death angel came. All that remained of the once loveable and beautiful Ida was laid to rest in the cemetery at Old Union on last Sunday amid a vast concourse of friends and relatives. Let us all so live that our end may be like hers and we be wafted into the presence of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords with the praises of Him who died for us upon our lips.