Osage County KS Archives Obituaries.....THOMAS, Mrs. Rebecca  March 10, 1932
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The Enterprise-Chronicle
Burlingame
Osage County
Thursday
March 10, 1932

Mrs. Rebecca Thomas, an Early Kansan, Dead.
Mrs. Rebecca THOMAS died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wm. S. HOWARD in
Denver, Colorado, March 5, 1932, and the body was brought to Burlingame Sunday
evening for burial.
Mrs. Thomas, daughter of John W. and Grace PASCOE, was born in Cornwall,
England, August 26, 1853, and was aged 78 years and 5 months at the time of her
death.
With her parents she came to America in 1860 at the age of seven years, and
settled in Negonia, Marquette county, Michigan. She was married December 1,
1872, to Wm. R. THOMAS and lived in Michigan about a year when they came to
Great Bend, Kansas and took up a homestead near that town. Here the family lived
approximately six years on the frontiers of civilization and they and other
hardy pioneers are the stock to whom our state and nation are everlastinging
indebted.
In 1879 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas movd with their family to Osage county where Mrs.
Thomas has made her home for the past 53 years, part of that time in Burlingame.
Her husband preceded her in death in December 1917.
Mourning her loss a host of friends and neighbors; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth
HARPER and Mrs. W.P. WHITE of Great Bend, Kansas; one brother, Paul James PASCOE
also of Great Bend; also seven children, Mrs. William S. HOWARD, and Mrs. Scott
W. WRIGHT of Denver, Colorado; Mrs. James C. RIDINGER of Gilllispie, Illinois;
George C. THOMAS and Mrs. H.L. PRICE of Fort Madison, Iowa; Mrs. Harold OLSON of
Topeka; Edward THOMAS of Burlingame; and seven grandchildren. 
She was a member of the Methodist church of Scranton. She was deeply religious
and a constant attendant at the church services until deafness and the
infirmities of old age prevented. She followed in His steps, living a Christian
life of beauty and high character. 
Funeral services were held in the First Methodist Church in Burlingame Tuesday
afternoon at 2:30, where friends of the family gathered to pay their respects to
a dear mother and friend. With Miss Pearl WHITE at the organ Miss Florence
THOMPSON, Mrs. Jesse PALMER, Harry HARKNESS and R.B. BRACKNEY sang, "Pilot of
Galille," "Rock of Ages," and "Abide with Me." 
Rev. J.W. TWEED preached from the text, Rev. 14:13, "And I heard a voice form
heaven saying unto me, write, blessed are the dead that die in the Lord." 
Messrs. Daniel, William, Thomas, Samuel, Bryan, and Weaver MASTERS acted as pall
bearers. Burial was in the family lot in the Burlingame cemetery. 



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