Personal Narrative Of James Thompson's Life

On January 25th, 1913 James Thompson, 47 years old shot and killed himself with a .38 caliber revolver. In the Monday’s, January 27th, 1913 edition of the Oil City Derrick the obituary for James read “BLOWS OUT HIS BRAINS” and went in depth of his every move before he ended his life. He had been suffering from a kidney infection and two days before while pumping wells he lost consciousness and the exposure to the cold and rain, aggravated his ailment. Then on Saturday he went to visit his sister in-law, were he complained of being ill and in a short time went to an outhouse where he ended his life. When James left his house, he had $12 in his pocket, but when the body was discovered and searched there was only $9, he spent $3 on the .38 caliber revolver to end his life. James Thompson was my great great grandfather and my great grandmother’s father, who she would never meet. The picture on the right is James outside of a greenhouse. He left a pregnant wife and eight children behind. In February 7th, 1913, my great grandmother, Blanche Thompson was born in Kaneville Pennsylvania. She lived with her mother, Susan Thompson, who cleaned houses. Almost, every holiday we would take great grandma out of the …show more content…
The next Sunday my great grandmother fell ill. She was diagnosed with pneamonia and everyone knew it was the end. I on that Sunday was working the National Honors Society booth at Children’s Day, when my mother called and told me that I should come to the nursing home. For some reason, I still do not understand I remember very vividly back to when I was volunteering, a time when the Bingo Caller said to all the residents that animals make you live longer, and later when I was taking my great grandmother back to her room she said to me “Carmon (her dog) is making me live longer.” I replied to her, “that means you could live a hundred more years” and she quickly replied, “I hope not I’m 100