Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-06-22

Over the Remains Of the Late Mrs.
Mary B. Thompson.
WILL BE HELD TOMORROW
MORNING AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK,
AT ST. MATHEWS P. E. CHURCH.
THE INTERMENT AT STONE
CHURCH CEMETERY--A SKETCH
OF HER LIFE.

CHURCH CEMETERY--AS SKETCH
OF HER LIFE
Mrs. Mary e. Thompson, whose re-
mains will arrive in Wheeling to-mor-
row direct from Paris, where she died
June 4th, will be buried at the old
Stone Church cemetery after the fun
eral service at ST. Mathews at IL
O'Clock tomorrow morning, the delay
from to-day being occasioned by the
non-arrival Of the ship at the expected
time.
Mrs. Thompson was born in Pocahon-
tas, August 21st, 1912, and was the
daughter of Henry M. and Mary Vance
Moffett, of Augusta county, Va, and
was related to the prominent pioneer
families of the Upper Shenandoah Val
ley, including the Prestons, McDowells,
Stuarts, Millers, Lewises, Brecken-
ridges, Warwicks and others whose
names have figured conspicuously in the
history of the Old Dominion. She was
the great granddaughter of Col. George
Moffett, of Revolutionary fame, who
had distinguished himself in the Indian
wars preceding the Revolution, and
was also first presiding justice of Au-
gusta county, and member of the first
board of trustees of Washington and
Lee University, then called Liberty
Hall Academy. He was half brother
of Gov. Allen Trimble, of Ohio. Her
maternal grandmother was first
cousin of Daniel Boone, the famous
pioneer. On her mothers side she was
related to the late. Senator Vance, of
North Carolina.
She was married in May, 1864, at
Long Meadow" farm, in Augusta coun-
ty, Virginia, to Col. w. P. Thompson,
who was then the Colonel of a cavalry
regiment in the Confederate service.
After the war Colonel and Mrs. Thomp-
son located in Parkersburg, w. Va,
where Col. Thompson became associat-
ed with his brother-in-law, ex-senator
Camden, in the oil business, and be-
came Vice President of the Camden
Consolidated Oil Company. After the
Camden Consolidated was absorbed by
the Standard Oil Company, Col
Thompson removed to Cleveland, where
he was associated with the Rockefel-
lers, Paynes and others in oil refining,
and was made Vice President of the
Standard Oil Company. Subsequently
he was elected President of the Ma
tional Lead Trust, and removed to New
York, where he died in February, 1897
At the time of his death he was also
President of the Ohio River Railroad
Company.
Mrs Thompson leaves three children,
all of whom are grown and married:
Lewis G.. Thompson, of New York;
VIM. P. Thompson, OF Newport, and
Mrs. Ralph J. Preston, of Colorado
Springs. OF her own family the sur
vivors are her only brother, Col George
H. Moffett, of Parkersburg; Mrs
Rachel E. McChesney, of Lewisburg,
and Mrs. Martha Hall, of Barbour
Mrs. Thompson's remains, accompan-
led by hSr sons and daughter, will ar
rive in Wheeling tomorrow morning at
TO-: 80 over the Pennsylvania line, and
the funeral service will be held at St
Mathews at HOO O'Clock, conducted
by the rector, DR.. Thomas, and assisted
by Bishops Peterkin and Gibson. After
the funeral the interment will be pri-
vate at the cemetery of old Stone
Church, out on the National pike,
nv q cir n
her late husband
The pall-bearers will be }. N. cam
den, G. A. Burt, A. C. jackson. w. N.
Chancellor, j. A. Moffett, Of Chicago;
Alexander Mcdonald, of Cincinnati; j..
N. Camden, Jr., w. P. Hubbard, B. D.
Spilman and George Baird.