THOMPSON, Jesse - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Rockville, April 20—Jesse Thompson, 82, committed suicide in the barn of his home near Bellmore Thursday afternoon by shooting himself in the head with a .22 rifle. Mrs. Edna Branson, deputy Parke County coroner, investigated.  Mr. Thompson had been in poor health for several years and that fact was believed to have been the cause of his act. He was a native of Parke County and was born near the place where he died, eight miles east of here. He had spent his entire life in the Bellmore vicinity.  He is survived by his wife and a foster daughter. - S