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Submitted: 1/7/25 • Approved: 1/8/25 • Last Updated: 1/11/25 • R836355-G836354-S3
Hattie Thompson
1884
2 Apr 1909
Patient # 1128
Wife of Harry Thompson
Obit: MOTHER DIES AT POOR FARM Consumption's Victim Will Not Long Survived by Baby. Mrs. Hattie Thompson of Carthage, aged 24 years, died at the county poor farm this morning at 8 o'clock. She has long been sufferer from the "white plague" and it was this disease which ended her life. The deceased had only been an inmate at the farm for two weeks. She leaves a husband, Harry Thompson, and two boys, one three years old and the other a baby of seven months. The latter has contracted consumption from its mother and, it is said, can live but a short time. The family lived in old sheds about town until the mother and children went to the almshouse. Interment will take place at 4 o'clock this afternoon in the potters' field at the county poor farm. Carthage Evening Press Carthage, Missouri · Friday, April 02, 1909
Infant Son Thompson
1908 – Apr 1909
Infant Son of Harry and Hattie Thompson. See above obit. The child is probably buried at Fair Acres as well. Probably Patient # 1130
Lisa May Thompson
1908 – 2 Apr 1909
Patient # 1130
This was probably meant to be the son of Hattie and Harry given the obit. The Obit states they had 2 sons, the youngest of which passed a short time after Hattie.
Contributed on 1/7/25
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Record #: 836355