Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Thompson, William R.  June 18, 1934
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Ashland Progress
Death, that ever-recurring visitor, has again come to the already thinned ranks 
of Lineville older citizenship and borne away on its ceaseless march, our good 
citizen, W. R. Thompson, better known throughout this country as Sam Thompson. 
Mr. Thompson has lived in this section since his boyhood days, moving here when 
he was twelve years. He was born Georgia the year 1857 and died at his home 
Lineville, Alabama, June 18, 1934. He was married to Miss Lou Parker, daughter 
of the late Aaron and Mary Parker, in the year 1883. To that union fourteen 
children were twelve of whom yet live and all were present at the funeral. These 
twelve are: W. H. Thompson, Wichita Falls, Tex- as, A. D. Thompson, J. F. 
Thompson, Columbiana, B.A. Tupelo, H. D. Thompson, Jasper, Milton Thompson, 
Lineville, Mrs. E. J. Garrison, Ashland, Mrs. K. L. Winn, Birmingham, Mrs. V.G. 
Summerford, Culleoka, and Misses Ophelia, Pauline and Mildred Thompson of 
Lineville, Alabama. These with the widow survive him. Sam Thompson was quite a 
positive character; what he said and what he did, he meant just that. He was 
converted and joined the Lineville Baptist Church in 1896, while Dr. J. R. 
Stodghill was pastor. As in all things with him, when he was converted, it a 
change in his life and he lived that change until his death. No man in all this 
country worked harder and strove harder to make an honest living and live an 
upright life. To rear as he reared and educate as he educated, twelve children, 
his whole income being dug from the soil of his farm east of Lineville, gives 
the reader some idea of the! great worker that he was. He made a good living, 
and he did it with the honest toil of his hands. It was often said that this 
community had no better worker or conscientious farmer than was Sam Thompson. He 
and his noble, faithful wife have made a wonderful contribution to the life of 
this and other communities with their own labors and the labors of their twelve 
active and progressive children. Few, indeed, have done so well. As a 
philosopher of old well said, "An honest man is the noblest work of God." Sam 
Thompson was an honest man, and the truth tells its own story. In the Lineville 
Baptist Church of which he was so long a devout and faithful member, in the 
presence of a large gathering of friends and I relatives, Rev. F. J. Ingram of 
Ashland, assisted by Rev. L. Harris of Lineville Methodist Church, conducted an 
impressive funeral service. The presence of so many friends, and the many 
beautiful floral offerings, bore impressive testimony of the esteem in which Mr. 
Thompson was held. After the services in the church the remains were carried to 
the beautiful new Lineville Cemetery on Lineville Heights and buried in clear 
view of the farm and home where he lived so long, and did so much good, faithful 
work and reared his large and useful family of children. As the coming years 
roll by and the green grasses and spring flowers grow and bloom, waving over 
that beautiful site, overlooking surrounding territory, the good influence of 
the honest, sturdy life Sam Thompson lived in this country, will live on with an 
influence we cannot measure, but a rich heritage to his children and friends, 
Maythe God who granted him redemption, and whom he faithfully served through all 
the years since 1896, bless, comfort arid, sustain the widow and children and 
grand-children and the legion of friends who honor his memory. His friend, John 
R. McCain.

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