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Parathenia Minnie Smith

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Parathenia Minnie Smith (on the left) was born 13 Apr 1869 in Miller County and died 24 June 1918 at Oronogo, Jasper Co., MO. at the home of her younger sister, Gracey Mae Smith-Lollar-May. Evidently after her husband (Paul Ress) died in 1916, she left St. Louis and moved to southwest MO. where some of her kinfolks had moved including Gracey Mae, and brothers: Charley, James Paulin, and John T.

It is my understanding that the men were all employed in the mines in that section of MO. in the early 1900s. The men all died down there in accidents.......Gracey Mae left the area and later married a man with the last name May, so as my aunt Idolia once told me... "Aunt Gracey's name became Gracey Mae May"!!!!!!

[Parthenia Minnie Smith was an older sister to my grandfather, Henry Franklin (Cap) Smith of Iberia.]

Minnie's second husband, Paul Ress, was about 10 years younger than she was but was in poor health. He died at the age of about 37 years in 1916 in a tuberculosis sanitarium in St. Louis. Her first husband was Rector Henry Thompson of Iberia but they divorced and she married Ress......she had a child out of wedlock named Clyde Smith who was raised by my great grandparents, William Harrison and Lucy (Gardner) Smith at Iberia.

That was the only child she ever had.......According to the obits, both Minnie and Paul Ress are buried at Iberia Cemetery but in unmarked graves. They may be near her parents, Harrison and Lucy, who are buried there.

More Info About Rector Henry Thompson, first husband of Parthenia Minnie Smith ~~~~~~~

He was a son of John Christopher Thompson (1825-1906) and Sarah Elizabeth McCaleb (1837-1898). Rector was born at Yellville, Marion Co, Arkansas, one of 11 children born to his parents. The 5 oldest children were born in Arkansas and came to Miller Co. circa 1863 where they had 6 more children over the years. Their children were:

1. Frances A. Thompson (1854-1905) m. Clark Martin
2. Elizabeth/Betty Thompson 1855-1938 m. Robert B. Garner
3. Eleven C. Thompson 1857-1941 m. Alice Groff
4. Rector Henry Thompson 1859-1929 m. 1) Parathenia Minnie Smith; 2) Addie Gertrude Rowden
5. Margaret Thompson 1862-
6. John Grant Thompson 1864-1924 m. Amanda Myrtle Wornell
7. Mary G. Thompson 1866-1894 m. James S. McComb
8. Sarah Emma Thompson 1868-1939 m. Isaac Elmer Ulman
9. Charles D. Thompson 1871-1873
10. Rosa A. Thompson 1873- m. Benjamin H. Cross
11. Della Doran Thompson 1877-1959 m. James Dawson Adams

Note: Della Thompson and James Adams were the grandparents of Jack Adams of Iberia, an old school mate of mine at Iberia. (PSH)