Back in 1975 when I visited Dad he took me to see Nelson. He was dying with cancer then from drinking and smoking. He asked me if I smoked or drank. I told him no and he said "Well you can be proud because maybe you won't suffer like me!" I also saw Bill's wife. He had died and he took me to see Carl but he wasn't home. He lived in a town close by but can't remember the name. Anyway, it was good to see them as Dad was the last and end of his family living when he died.
~ Edith Jackson


Nelson was a bricklayer contractor with his own business in St. Louis Missouri. He died of cancer of the esophygus & is buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery in St. Louis Missouri. Minnie Lee Thompson-Wilson was a school teacher most of her life and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in 1949 from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene TX. She died of emphysema & is buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery in St. Louis Missouri.
~ Elaine Paine