Father: James Jerome THOMPSON
Mother: Mary Jane MCCAULEY
Family 1 : Edwin Matthews WELD
_James THOMPSON _
_Robert P. THOMPSON _|
| |_Susannah WEIR __
_James Jerome THOMPSON _|
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|--Sarah Fleming THOMPSON
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| _John MCCAULEY ______|
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|_Mary Jane MCCAULEY ____|
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|_Lucinda (MCCAULEY) _|
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Notes:
| From Phyliss McMaster, "James Jerome THOMPSON", p. 6: | ||
| "Sally" is first seen in the 1880 census in DeView, Woodruff Co., and is listed as being 2 years old, living with her parents. | ||
| From a recollection from Gayle Martinsen (03 Jan 2001): | ||
| I remember Great Great Aunt Sally Thompson Welds making me a doll cloths pin holder one time. When I was little in school we were allowed to wander off campus at school at lunch time, I would go to town and get a Hamburger and coke for lunch and stop by to see them. I knew she was related to me but didn't realize how, she was always very kind to me and Uncle Ed was too, they made me feel like they were glad to see me... They lived on main street across from the big Methodist church on main street and our school Library was in the basement of the church. BOY, have times have changed. First I went to a brick school that had a room for each grade up to seven. There were two outside toilets, one for the boys and the other for girls and set a ways from each other. Also had an out side hand pump for water and we had to bring our own drinking cup, Seems to me that we had little tin cups, Which reminds me, I have Mom's little tin cup and it collapes to look like a snuff can. That is when most of the country kids dropped out of school, after the 7th grade they had to go to McCrory to finish, in Mom's day there were no buses she boarded with her great aunt, Maud Thompson Greer. Maud was a sister to Callie Wright [as well as Sally Thompson Weld]. Then at the semester break we moved to the Possum Creek community... At Possum Creek it was a one room school with one teacher and the classes went to the seventh grade. One row for each class. I remember I sat at the desk and had no idea what was going on. I knew I had to be quiet and that was it. We had a wood stove, outside toilet, a hand pump, had to bring our lunch and if the weather was bad you stayed hom. The teacher had to walk about three miles down the dirt road, so we knew if it was wet and cold he couldnt' make it. I shiver when I hear people making fun of uneducated people, I know the hardships of getting to school, in some of the communities there were no schools but that was before my time, and some of the people lived so far that it was too hard for the kids to get there... | ||
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Burial listed in Cemetery Records of Woodruff County, Arkansas, Volume II (East of the Cache River), by Adelia C. Kittrell and Curtis A. Houston, p. 192: |
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| FAKES CEMETERY: New Northeast [Weld], Sallie Thompson , b. Sept. 18, 1878, d. Jan. 31, 1968, wife |
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This page created on 04/23/00 01:33:20 . Updated 02/18/2001 14:09.
