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Submitted: 1/28/15 • Approved: 1/30/15 • Last Updated: 3/25/18 • R53068-G53068-S3
Golden
Feb 18, 1888- 1938
Son of Robert Kenyon and Nancy Ophelia Guice Thompson
Golden was a handsome athletic man, worked for the Rail road, he was born in Brown County, the 8th of 10 ,and the 6th of 8 sons born to Rev. Robert Kenyon and Nancy Ophelia Guise Thompson Sr. ,both Born in Arkansas .Rev. Thompson fought in the Texas 13 th Calv. in the Civil war enlisting at age 16 in Dallas, TX. His wife was daughter of Methodist Episcopal preacher and Rev. Thompson was son, Grandson and Great Grandson of the same. Golden was like all the men in his family active in the Masonic Fraternity, a Past Master of his Masonic Lodge and also a Past Patron of the Eastern Star. he was also a member of several Fraternal Insurance societies .He grew up in Brownwood ,Texas Graduating from High school ,then going to Daniel Baker University,there. He played football on their famed Old Invincibles 1908 to 1911. Playing right Tackle. After school he went to work for the rail road, and married Pearl E. Wright Who is buried next to him.
Pearl
1900-1949
Wife of Golden G Thompson
Wife of Tom Glover
Pearl White Thompson Glover ,was married two times ,first to Golden Guice Thompson,in Amarillo ,Texas and then to his Cousin C. Tom Glover of Brownwood on March 27 ,1904.All though records and family memories such as they were said she had no children by either of them ,When you look at the size of the family Plot Golden bought in the height of the depression,one must doubt that. Also in Spring of 1979 i visited the grave site.Their best friends are buried in the far left corner and they are buried in the middle top.Thse people were in Eastern Star with the Thompson's and are just friends. there are a great many empty spots and the plot is now marked with Marble bricks around the whole outline with corner markers with a T on top. Golden and Pearl's Markers are far newer than than their burials. I visited the only place you could buy markers in Slayton. The man said his dad had handled the sale of the new markers only a few years ago and he remembered there being several families there when it was done. when it was time to pay he showed me were 5 men and one woman divided up the cost ??? Could these be sons and a daughter ??? No one in my family had seen him since before 1919.So there may be children , why else would you buy over twenty plots in the depression ?? After Pearl's death Tom Glover buried her there instood of Brownwood ,were he was to be buried .
Photo courtesy of Sue Thompson Patterson
Contributed on 1/28/15 by bill060
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