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- Never married. Lived on the Thomson Homestead at Lot 36, Concession 4, Minto Township, Wellington County, Ontario until her brother Robert A. Thomson died in 1919. She purchased Lot 15, South West side of John Street, corner of Young, in Harriston, Ontario for $1,500 on 20 November 1920. She moved there with her sister Elizabeth. Mary moved to Toronto, Ontario about 1930 and worked as a companion to older people. (In her sister Elizabeth's obituary, Mary was still living in Harriston in 1938). (She felt forced to go work as she felt she had lost her money in the mortgage she held with the Connell family on the Thomson farm. Things were tough and Peden Connell could not pay the mortgage. Peden took the matter to some kind of a board which ruled in his favor and lowered the mortgage. On this board was William Andrew Amos, the husband of a cousin of Mary's. Mary was very indignant about this and her temper showed.) (Wayne Thomson was told the story slightly differently by Jim Connell, the owner of the Thomson farm in 2002, that Mary saved Peden Connell's farms by forgiving the mortgage payments in the poor years of the 1930s.) Mary sold the house in Harriston on 17 March 1940 for $1,100. She was the last of her generation to die. Died in a nursing home in Mount Forest, Minto Township about a month after she moved there. Was apparently a very prim and proper old lady. Buried beside her parents in Plot CC-1-37F in Harriston Cemetery, Minto Township, Wellington County, Ontario. The executor of her estate was Lilian Adeline (Cragg) Foster and the estate was divided between all her living nieces and nephews. Descendants of her brother, John Albert Thomson have letters written by Mary from the 1920s and 30s.
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1872 - 1953 (80 years)
