Call Me Home

Author: Mrs. Bishop Thompson

Catherine Gilchrist Thompson Catherine was the daugh­ter of Si­mon Cor­ne­li­us Gilc­hrist and Eli­za­beth Wolf. On No­vem­ber 16, 1841, she mar­ried Jo­seph Pas­cal Thomp­son in Will­iams­port (Penn­syl­van­ia?). Joseph was a bi­shop of the Af­ri­can Me­thod­ist Epis­co­pal church, so some sour­ces give Ca­ther­ine’s name as "Mrs. Bi­shop Thomp­son." She was an ex­cep­tion­al wo­man in many re­spects—ami­able, pi­ous, de­vout. She was a great or­gan­iz­er, and had won­der­ful ex­ec­utive abi­li­ty. Her great­est de­light was in the Sun­day school work. She de­vot­ed hours of ear­nest thought and pray­er to the most ef­fec­tive means of at­tract­ing the youth… Go to person page >