Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Thompson, Ghould H. 223830

Birth: 09/22/1870 Death: 11/25/1944 Marriage: 04/04/1900

Cemetery: Pleasant Hill (SOUTHEAST)

Record Source: Texas Death Certificate, The Paris News, Researcher-Submitted Info

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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (05/12/2025)

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THE PARIS NEWS, Sunday, November 26, 1944, p. 9: “G. H. Thompson. G. H. Thompson, 74, died at 2:20 o’clock Friday afternoon at the Sanitarium of Paris, where he had been brought from Watson Convalescent Home, March 6, for surgical treatment. Born Sept. 22, 1870, in South Carrolina, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Thompson, he lived here many years before going to Harlingen, returning here after his health failed. He had been employed as a railroad mechanic. The Rev. John V. Berglund of First Methodist Church will conduct the funeral, Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at Manton-Fry Funeral Home, and interment will be made in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. The pallbearers will be E. H. Maddox, Bud Morgan, Sam Fuqua, Lt. Crayton Thompson, Harvey Boyd and O. B. White. Survivors are these children: Mrs. Thomas Seay, Miss Dorothy Thompson and George H. Thompson, Paris; Lt. Betty Hogan, Army Nurse Corps; Collis Thompson and Frank H. Thompson, Harlingen, and 2nd Lt. Wayne Thompson in France, and these brothers and sisters: George B. Thompson and Mrs. Lillie Boyd, Paris, the Rev. Harry Thompson, Sulphur Springs, and Mrs. Jim Walsh, Megargel.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: G H Thompson
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 24 Nov 1944
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date: 22 Sep 1870
Birthplace: South Carolina
Father’s Name: Geo Thompson
Mother’s Name:
Certificate Number: 52714
GS Film number: 2137864
Digital Folder Number: 005144847
Image Number: 00542
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KS1Q-WMG : 5 December 2014), G H Thompson, 24 Nov 1944; citing certificate number 52714, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,137,864.

Information from George Frank Thompson, Houston, TX, gthompson@houston.rr.com, 22 May 2000: Ghould H. Thompson (aka Guly Hendon Thompson) died on 25 Nov 1944. He was born 22 Sep 1870 in Pickens, SC, and was the son of George McDuffie Thompson (b. 15 Aug 1840 Pickens, SC died Paris, Lamar Co. 22 Dec 1907) and Sarah A. ‘Sallie’ (Holder) Dillard (born out of wedlock, daughter of Rev. Benjamin Holder, b. September 25, 1844, died Abt. 1864 in SC.) Ghould was married on 4 Apr 1900 to Dora (Isadora) Hogue in Brookston, Lamar Co., TX.
     Children of Ghould and Dora Thompson were:
    1. Thomas Wayne Thompson (my father), b. 25 Aug 1901, Paris, d. 13 Aug 1966, Houston.
    2. Frank Hughes Thompson.
    3. George Hogue Thompson, 2 Nov 1903, d. 3 Feb 1981.
    4. Collis Robert Thompson.
    5. Dorothy Ghould Thompson Locke living in Paris in 2000.
    6. Erma Dee Thompson Seay.
    7. Betty Jo Thompson living in Sulphur Springs, TX in 2000.

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