Lee-Hendry County FlArchives Obituaries.....Thompson, Laura Jane Hendry May 11, 1895
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Fort Myers Press, 16 May 1895
Died:--At her home in this city, on Friday, May 11, of consumption, Mrs. Laura 
J. Thompson, aged thirty-eight years, two months and nine days.

     Mrs. Thompson was the eldest daughter of Captain and Mrs. F. A. Hendry, 
and was born in Polk county, March 2, 1858.  When quite young she 
came with her parents to Monroe, now Lee county, where she has ever since 
resided.  June 22, 1873, she was married to Mr. C. W. Thompson and 
was the mother of four children, three of whom survive her, a son and two 
daughters.  Mrs. Thompson was a woman of unusual force of character 
keen perception and bright and active intellect, which made her a strong and 
earnest advocate of whatever cause she espoused.  For nearly twenty 
years she had charge of the telegraph office here, only resigning her duties 
when death claimed her.
     About eight years ago she became deeply interested in the temperance work 
of this county, and was instumental in the organization of the W.C.T.U., of 
which she has ever since been an earnest and active member.
     A few years later, feeling the Injustice done to the Seminole Indians she 
espouced their cause, and has written some most excellent articles on that 
subject, which have been published in eastern papers.  Had her 
health been better and circumstances surrounding her different she would have 
been a power for good, and it may appropriately been said of her "She hath 
done what she could."  She fully realized her approaching end, and calmly and 
resignedly met it, calling to her bedside her children to whom she left tender 
messages, and bidding loving farewells to all her family, she peacefully 
crossed the river, finding it, as she neared the brink, neither wide nor 
deep.  For her, death had no sting, the grave, no victory.
     In looking over a scrap book which she had compiled, and which so plainly 
shows the particular bent of her mind, we found this little gem from which we 
quote the following stanzas:

                           ONE LESS AT HOME

               A sense of loss that meets us at the gate;
                 Within a place unfilled and desolate;
                   And far away our coming to await.
                       One more in Heaven.

                           ONE LESS ON EARTH

             It's pain, its sorrow and its tolls to share;
                One less the pilgrim's cross to bear;
                 One more the shining crown to wear,
                           At home in Heaven.

                          ONE MORE IN HEAVEN

                 Another thought to brighten cloudy days;
                    Another theme for boundless praise;
                  Another link on high our souls to raise
                         To Home and Heaven.  





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