Smyrna times., 1922-11-22
DEATH RECORD OF THE WEEK
Miss Mary w. Thompson PISSED Away
at Her Home on Commerce Street
After a Long Illness-Others


Miss Mary W. Thompson, one of !
Smyrna's best known and most es- !
timable women, passed to her eternal
rest Friday morning about ten o'clock |
after long years of invalidism. For
seventeen years she has been in fail |
ing health and for more than a year
had been confined to her room and
bed. All thru her illness she display
ed a remarkable Christian fortitude
and most tenacious mold on life,
when at times it seemed she could not
rally. Miss Thompson was a daugh-
ter of the late Rev. Thomas j. Thomp-
son a retired minister of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, and Elizabeth
Maynard. She was born in Pennsyl-
vania January 8, 1916, and moved
with her father in the itinerant min
istry until he retired and settled in
Smyrna. She, with her other sisters
and brother,were a devoted family and
after caring for her aged parents until
they passed beyond, she gave of her
devotion to those of her household. In
her younger days Miss Thompson was
a music teacher and many of Smyrna'S
well-known citizens were among her
pupils. She was, from her girlhood,a
member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church and when she came to Smyrna
she took an active interest in Asbury
NJ. E. Church and Sunday School and
Woman's Foreign and Home Mission
airy Societies. For 25 years she
was pianist in Asbury Sunday School
besides having bible class. Possibly
one of the most important years of
her life was spent in China at the
home of her brother-in-law, the late
Rev. DR.. Samuel l.. Gracey, a United
States Consul besides a missionary.
Miss Thompson taught a class in En-
ghsh in a Chinese school as well as
the bible and did effective work for
foreign missions. She is survived by
on siser, Mrs. Ella Griffith, who resided
with her in the old homestead, and
several nieces and nephews. Her only
brother the late Rev. Henry S. Thomp-
son of Wilmington Methodist Episco-
pal Conference, died April l, 1914
and her sister, Miss Margaret ThOmp-
: son, died June 25, 1917. Funeral serv-
, ices were held from her late residence
: on West Commerce Street at 1.3O
: o'clock Monday afternoon in charge OF
Rev. John j. Bunting, pastor Of As
bury NJ. Z. Church, and interment was
made in the family burrying grounc
: in Glenwood cemetery.
= Sudden Death of Mrs. Llewelyn Davis
5 Mrs. Frances J. Davis, aged 81
widow of Llewelyn 7. Davis, a well
Y known grand army veteran died Mon
4 day evening as the result of fal
i down the cellar steps at her home, OF
3 West Mt. Vernon Street. Death wa!
instantaneous. Mrs. Davis was going
after her pet cat to feed it when sh'
, made a mistep and fell headlong dOwl
: the whole flight. She was dead b!
: the time the doctor arrived. Mrs
> John S. Griffin, Jr., who made he
: home with her, was alone in the hous
at the time. She heard the fall ant
: rushing to the cellar stairway foun,
her grandmother in a heap on the ce!
lar floor. She had cracked her skull
in the fall. The sudden death of Mrs
Davis was an awful shock to her re
= latives. For a woman of her advanC
ed years she was very active and wa
held in highest esteem by all VIII
! knew her. She is survived by fou
= grandchildren and five sisters an
I brothers as follows: Mrs. William i
= Smith, Smyrna; Mrs. Harrison Davi:
= Mrs. Sallie Smith, Captain Pete
:, Riggs and Levi Riggs, all of Milford
. Mrs. Davis was the last survivor @
her immediate family. Her husband
= = l.. T. Davis, died October 8, 1920 an
! - her son, William and daughter, Mr.
John r. Pratt, died in recent year
:" Funeral services will take place frol
>, her late residence tomorrow, Thur!
T day at 1.30 p. M, in charge of Re-
:. =, j. j. Bunting and interment will be
:. Glenwood Cemetery.
~ Death of Mrs. Isaac n. Mills, ClaytO
Mrs. Annie M. Mills, aged 81, wido
- = of Isaac N. Mills, for years superb
tendent of the Delaware Division {
the Pennsylvania Railroad System
died last Wednesday at her home
Clayton after a lingering illness
paralysis. Sometime ago she suffert
", a fall from which she never fully r.
covered. A woman of sweet, gent
al disposition, of refined tastes and
st lover of the best things in life, 81
d. made many friends. When she move
n with her late husband to Clayton, the
xt had built fine home on the west sic
10 only to be followed by building boo
on that made the section around them OF
at of the choice residential sections
n" the town. She was a communicant
on Trinity Protestant Episcopal Chur
rk and while her health permitted W
ba | active in itc cuccacc Mrc Mills w