THOMPSON, John C., Beeville Bee, 24 Feb 1905:

Another of the venerable landmarks of the county was removed last week by the death of 
John C. THOMPSON, which occurred Thursday evening, the 16th inst. Mr. Thompson had 
been in failing health for several months. He was a farmer, a rancher and later a grocery 
merchant.

The deceased was born in Itawamba County, Mississippi on January 12, 1836, where he grew 
to manhood's estate imbued with a spirit of adventure that claimed many young man of his day. 
He came to Texas in 1858 and settled in San Patricio County, where with his cousin, J. M. FOSTER, 
he engaged in the cattle business.
On December 18, 1861, he married Miss Mary E. COKE. She was born in Alabama in 1846 and died 
in Beeville in 1921. John and Mary are buried in the Glenwood cemetery in Beeville Texas. Together 
they had nine children, one died in infancy. 

Their children are; 
1. Mattie "Billie" Thompson, wife of A. S. LOCKWOOD, was born March 16, 1867 in San Antonio Texas, 
died July 2, 1923 and is buried in Glenwood Cemetery.
2. Oscar Thompson was born in Bee County in 1870 and married Alice WEBSTER, January 1902 in Beeville 
Texas.
3. Edgar Thompson was born December 1872 in Bee County and in 1900 he worked in his father's grocery 
store in Beeville. He married Maggie WEBB. She was born January 1879.
4. Guy Thompson was born 1873 in Beeville and married Meta Van Buren BODENHAMER. 
Minnie Thompson was born 1876 in Beeville.
5. Roy was born January 1878 in Beeville and married Miss Mattie HICKS, September 10, 1899 in Beeville. In 
1900 he worked with his father in the grocery business. Mattie was born 1879.
6. Ola Thompson was born July 25, 1881 and she married Arthur DANFORTH, December 28, 1900 in 
Beeville. Ola was a teacher in Beeville before she married. She died September 1, 1908, buried in Glenwood.
7. Lena "Lelia" Mae Thompson was born in March 22, 1884 in Beeville and married Theodore D. WHITMAN 
on June 1, 1904. In 1900 she was a teacher at Clareville School. She died Sept 10,1980 in McAllen, Hidalgo Co., TX

Early in 1862, John C. Thompson responded to the call of his state for volunteers and joined the Confederate 
army serving first in Wood's Regiment and afterwards being transferred to Pyron's Regiment in Green's Brigade, 
in which he served for the remaining of the war. In 1895 J. C., along with many other Civil War Veterans of the 
Walton Camp in Bee Co., left to attend a reunion in Houston Texas.

Returning from the war he lived a while in San Antonio, removing to Wilson county, then to Bee County to the 
Central Community about 1870, where he had a farm. In 1892, J.C. Thompson moved to the City of Beeville and 
built the old brick building on the town square at 108 W. Corpus Christi Street where he started his grocery 
business. That building is in use in modern time.

In additional to his immediate family, he is survived by three brothers and three sisters, one of whom, A. J. 
Thompson is a well-known resident of this county. Another brother, Frank T. lives in Corsicana, and the third, 
Jas. A. lives in Greenwood, Miss. The sisters are Mrs. A. C. TUBBS, Quincy, Miss., Mrs. A. C. PATTERSON, 
Big Pond, Ark., and Mrs. Jeanne TOWNSEND, Marion County, Ala.

For more than forty years Mr. Thompson had been an active and zealous member of the Methodist Church and 
of the Masonic fraternity. His funeral on Saturday morning under the auspices of the Masons. The first service 
in the new and magnificent Methodist church, which he had not been spared to enter as a worshipper, was his 
funeral service.