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The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., October 4, 1923, page 1

OBITUARY

John Charles Thomson was born in Allegheny county, Penn., March 25th, 1847. He married Anna McMurtie January 20, 1870. To this union five children were born, four sons and one daughter, namely; Elizabeth, John M., Daniel F., William A., and Joseph. Elizabeth passed away in September, 1888, in her seventeenth year. Joseph died in 1886, aged four years, and William A. passed away on March 21st, 1903, at the age of twenty-four years.
Elizabeth and Joseph are buried at Well Springs, Morrow county, Or., and Anna M. Thomson is buried in the Pleasant Valley cemetery, Klickitat county. Mrs. Annie McMurtie Thomson passed away Aug. 23, 1906.
Mr. Thompson after marrying, went to West Virginia, where he resided for a number of years, following which he moved to Iowa, where he lived for seven years. Then he migrated to Missouri, where he lived about five years, when he started across the plains with his family March 30, 1884, in a prairie schooner, drawn by a span of mules. Arriving June 30, 1884, he settled at Weston, Ore., where he rented a ranch and lived one year, after which he moved to Heppner, Or., where he resided for twelve years.
He was one of the early pioneers of the Heppner country, coming there before much of the virgin soil was broken and cultivated.
In the spring of 1889 he was elected as representative for Morrow County, Ore. to the Oregon legislature. He was a staunch Democrat of the Jeffersonian democracy.
He came to Klickitat County Feb. 25, 1898, and located in the Pleasant Valley section, fifteen miles east of Goldendale. He engaged in farming nearly all his life. On Nov. 9, 1914, he married Rachel Shepherd, of Seattle, Wash., who survives him; also two sons, John M. of Pleasant Valley and Daniel F. of Goldendale. Three brothers also survive him: Alexander F. Thomson of Pittsburgh, Penn., who is an attorney there; and W.H.S. Thomson, also of Pittsburgh, who is an attorney at that place and at present judge of the western district of Pennsylvania; and Jeremiah Morgan Thomson of New Sheffield, Penn., who is engaged in farming. A half brother, W.C. Thomson, died in Dakota Jan. 9, 1886.
Mr. Thomson came from an old pioneer family of Beaver County, Penn., who were originally from Scotland.
His last illness dated from February, 1923. He died Sept. 29, 1923 at Goldendale, and was laid to rest Oct. 2, 1923, amid sorrowing relatives and a host of friends, in the Pleasant Valley cemetery. The services were conducted by M.L. Sanders, D.D., pastor of the Goldendale Methodist Episcopal church. At the time of his death, he was aged 76 years, 6 months and 4 days.

Peace to his ashes - Daniel F. Thompson.