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Morning Pioneer, Mandan, ND, Wednesday, 08 Feb 1922

C. P. THURSTON IS NEAR DEATH AT MINNEAPOLIS.

Friends of C. P. Thurston former resident of Mandan, will regret to learn that he is in a precarious condition in one of the Minneapolis hospitals. Mrs. Thurston writing to a friend in this city, advises that her husband recently underwent a very serious operation and that physicians say "he has a chance for recovery if blood poisoning doesn't set in or his heart fail."

Thurston, Charles Parker  1844-1922

Morning Pioneer, Mandan, ND, 27 Mar 1922

WELL KNOWN PIONEER OF CITY AND SLOPE PASSED AWAY SATURDAY MORNING. AMERICAN LEGION to CONDUCT SERVICES. FUNERAL AT MANDAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AT TWO O'CLOCK TUESDAY P.M.

Charles P. Thurston, 77, one of the best known of the early settlers of this section of North Dakota and for thirty years a resident of Mandan, died Saturday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Edith T. Glaze, Minneapolis.

The funeral services will be held from the Presbyterian church here on Tuesday at 2 P.M. with Rev. H. H. Owen officiating aided by the officers and members of Gilbert S. Furness Post of the American Legion. Interment will take place in the family plot in Union cemetery.

Charles P. Thurston was a native of Iowa. When the Civil War broke out he enlisted as a private in Co. G Ninth Iowa Volunteer cavalry and served with that unit throughout the war.
In 1885 he came to North Dakota and took up a homestead near the present townsite of Sanger in Oliver county, where he lived for a few years and then came to Mandan after proving up on his land.
For a number of years he conducted a hotel which was located at the corner of Collins avenue and Second street on the site of the Ole Paulson home. This hotel burned down.
"Colonel" Thurston was for years active in the work of the Missouri Slope Fair Association, serving most of the time as superintendent of grounds. No parade was complete unless it was headed by Colonel Thurston mounted on his pet saddle horse, and it was his special delight last fall to return to his old task after an absence of three years.
Some four years ago Mr. and Mrs. Thurston moved to Minneapolis to make their home with their daughter, Mrs. Edith T. Glaze. Some months ago he was taken ill with stomach trouble and underwent a serious operation. His advanced age, however, proved too great a handicap and death claimed him at 10 o'clock Saturday morning.
Mandan citizens generally will regret to learn of his death. While he had not held any other public office than Justice of Peace, he was always ready to do his share in the general advancement of the city.
It is at his request that interment will take place here. The body will arrive this evening from Minneapolis and will be taken to the Kennelly undertaking parlors where he will lie in state until tomorrow afternoon.
Members of the American Legion will serve as an honor guard and will conduct full military funeral honors at the church and at the cemetery. Members of the American Legion will also serve as pall bearers.
Besides his wife, who is not able to come to Mandan, two daughters, Mrs. Edith T. Glaze and Mrs. John Chisholm, survive.
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Morning Pioneer, Mandan, ND, 29 Mar 1922

VETERANS PAY HONOR TO LATE CIVIL WAR VET.

Pall Bearers Include Men of Many Different Campaigns of U. S. Armies.

Funeral services for the late Charles Parker Thurston were held at 2 o'clock Tuesday p.m. from the Presbyterian church with the American Legion and Rev. Hugh Owen officiating, and the body was laid to rest in the cemetery of which the deceased was for so many years superintendent, with full military honors.
The Spanish-American war veterans, the G. A. R., the Indian veterans and the veterans of the World War combined to do the old soldier honor. The pall bearers were H. H. Warren, J. C. Creighton, Charles Miller, Wm. P. Ellison, James T. McGillic and John O'Rourke.
Richard Furness, of the navy, Con Caddell, the army, and Harland Center, the marine corps, served as color guard, and R. F. Dow, bugler. The firing squad was composed of Walter Hecker, commanding; Martin Mossbrucker, W. Sandvig, Fred Romer, Ray Tipper, Henry Smith, Fred Parker, Frank Weinhandl, and Richard Key.
Obituary.
Charles Parker Thurston, the son of Rev. Thomas William and Mary Brown Thurston was born at Schulder, N.Y., August 30, 1944. He died March 25 of heart failure after a prolonged illness following an operation.
He was taken by his parents to Osage, Iowa, in 1858, where his father was a member of the Methodist conference, and attended school there until 1862 when he entered the government service as an express messenger and a clerk in the quartermaster corps.
He enlisted in Co. G, Ninth Iowa Cavalry at Ansgar, Iowa, October 10, 1863, and served through Missouri, Arkansas and other points in the west for two years, being discharged June 21, 1865.
He was married to Harriet Rebecca Dodge at Newburg, Ia., May 24, 1866, six children being born to them. Frederick William, Thurzia Locklin, Horace Dodge and Charles Parker Thurston, Jr., all of whom have since died.
Two daughters and his wife survive, Mrs. Edith Maria Glaze, and Mrs. Harriet May Chisholm, both of Minneapolis. Both were here for the services today.
The G. A. R. of Minneapolis conducted special military services for him on Sunday, prior to the body being brought to Mandan.


Thurston, Mrs. Charles P.  (d. August 2, 1930)

**Her maiden name was Harriet Rebecca Dodge.

Morning Pioneer, Mandan, ND, 04 Aug 1930 --Page 7

DEATH CLAIMS MRS. CHAS. P. THURSTON, 80 

Death at 11 o'clock this morning claimed Mrs. C. P. Thurston, aged about 80, at her home, 3244 First Avenue South, Minneapolis. Mrs. Thurston, the widow of the late Col. C. P. Thurston, has been making her home in Minneapolis since the death of her husband, March 25, 1922. She resided in Mandan for nearly forty years. 

 The body will be brought to Mandan for interment. It will be taken to the Kennelly Undertaking parlors but the casket will not be opened. The services will be held at the grave where her body will be lowered to rest in the family plot beside her husband. Rev. G. W. Stewart of the Presbyterian church, will conduct the rites at two p.m. A more extended obituary was not available this afternoon.




 

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