OBIT: Jennie E. THOMPSON, 1914, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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Miss Jennie Thompson.

  Miss Jennie E. Thompson, a widely known and esteemed resident of 
Altoona, died at 8.30 o'clock Saturday evening at the home of her 
sister, Mrs. Robert T. Caldwell, of 421 Second avenue.  Death was due 
to cerebral embolism.  She had been ill but two weeks.
  Miss  Thompson was the daughter of John B. and Sarah Mattern 
Thompson, both deceased, and was born at Spruce Creek Valley, 
Huntingdon county, on December 7, 1840.  She resided in that vicinity 
for many years and later came to Blair county and for the past several 
years she had made her home with her sister at the above address.  She 
was a member of the Presbyterian church since childhood and was a 
member of the Second Presbyterian church of Altoona.  Miss Thompson was 
charitably inclined, a woman of thorough Christian character and 
possessed scores of friends who will learn with regret of her demise.  
One sister, Mrs. Robert T. Caldwell, and two brothers; D. M. Thompson, 
of Tyrone, and J. H. Thompson, of Philadelphia, survive.
  Funeral services were held at 421 Second avenue, Monday at 7.30 
o'clock by the Rev. H. H. Stiles, of the Second Presbyterian church.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., November 26, 1914