Jackson County KS Archives Obituaries.....THOMPSON, Daniel Laurens  January 11, 1923
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The Holton Recorder
Jackson County
Thursday
January 11, 1923

Thompson.
Daniel Laurens THOMPSON was born in Putnam County, Ohio, December 18, 1845, and
passed away at his home in Holton, Wednesday morning, January 3, 1923 at the age
of 77 years and 16 days.
He was the son of Oren and Charlotte Thompson and was one of a family of eight
children. One member of the family, a sister, survives.
His early boyhood days were spent in Ohio. Later his parents moved to
Logansport, Ind., and it was here his schooling was obtained in the log school
house of the day.
At the age of seventeen he with a young and an older brother enlisted in the
Civil War. He and the three brothers survived and received honorable discharges.
On his return home he learned his trade from his father who was a carpenter.
On August 18, 1870 he was married to Jane BARRETT of Kewanee. Of this family
there were four children, Hal B., Frank and Martha and one who died in infancy.
The mother died when the youngest child, Martha, was three years old. 
On May 23, 1887, Mr. Thompson and Mary C. MANLEY were married at Osborne City,
Kansas. Three girls came to bless this family, Mabel, Ellen and Emma. Emma died
in infancy. In 1874 he came to Portis, Kansas, and experienced the hard time
associated with the grasshopper year. He lived in Smith county, also Osborne
county and for the last twenty-five years has lived in Holton.
His war record show he was a member of Co. B., 128th Regiment, of Logansport,
Ind. He was a member of the Will Wendell Post of this place and at different
times held the office of post commander.
He will be missed by his wife, five children and seven grandchildren, his
neighbors, and post comrades and by his church. He united with the United
Brethren church soon after coming to Holton. Only the Sabbath before his death
he was in his usual place at Sabbath school and morning service.
Those who survive are his wife, two sons, Hal B. and Frank, three daughters,
Mrs. Martha ERNST, Miss Mabel Thompson and Mrs. Ellen BURTRUM, all of Holton and
were present at the funeral.
The funeral services were held Saturday at the United Brethren church, conducted
by Rev. J.M. Manion, and the interment was in the Holton cemetery. 

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