The New York Age Thursday Sept 10, 1908
An Old Brooklynite Dead.
Charles Thompson, for fourteen years an inmate of the Brooklyn Home for Aged Colored People, died in that institution on Thursday, of old age. He was born in Flatbush ninety-eight years ago, and at the age of three years was taken into the Jarvis family. He was interred in the Jarvis family burial plot in Cypress Hills Cemetery. He was well educated. He on several occasions acted as a model for the artist, Harry Roseland, whose drawings of Negro characters were famous. For thirty five years he was sexton of the Concord Baptist Church and he was a member of the African M. E. Church on Bridge street. The Rev. W. T. Dixon and the Rev.
P, M. Jacobs officiated at the services held at 10 o'clock Sunday. The deceased leaves one son, Augustus.
published The New York Age
Sept 10, 1908
His portrait can be seen in Mr Roseland's painting An Elderly African American Gentleman and in his work Morning Coffee, The Tutor and A Penny Short among other works
An Old Brooklynite Dead.
Charles Thompson, for fourteen years an inmate of the Brooklyn Home for Aged Colored People, died in that institution on Thursday, of old age. He was born in Flatbush ninety-eight years ago, and at the age of three years was taken into the Jarvis family. He was interred in the Jarvis family burial plot in Cypress Hills Cemetery. He was well educated. He on several occasions acted as a model for the artist, Harry Roseland, whose drawings of Negro characters were famous. For thirty five years he was sexton of the Concord Baptist Church and he was a member of the African M. E. Church on Bridge street. The Rev. W. T. Dixon and the Rev.
P, M. Jacobs officiated at the services held at 10 o'clock Sunday. The deceased leaves one son, Augustus.
published The New York Age
Sept 10, 1908
His portrait can be seen in Mr Roseland's painting An Elderly African American Gentleman and in his work Morning Coffee, The Tutor and A Penny Short among other works
The New York Age Thursday Sept 10, 1908
An Old Brooklynite Dead.
Charles Thompson, for fourteen years an inmate of the Brooklyn Home for Aged Colored People, died in that institution on Thursday, of old age. He was born in Flatbush ninety-eight years ago, and at the age of three years was taken into the Jarvis family. He was interred in the Jarvis family burial plot in Cypress Hills Cemetery. He was well educated. He on several occasions acted as a model for the artist, Harry Roseland, whose drawings of Negro characters were famous. For thirty five years he was sexton of the Concord Baptist Church and he was a member of the African M. E. Church on Bridge street. The Rev. W. T. Dixon and the Rev.
P, M. Jacobs officiated at the services held at 10 o'clock Sunday. The deceased leaves one son, Augustus.
published The New York Age
Sept 10, 1908
His portrait can be seen in Mr Roseland's painting An Elderly African American Gentleman and in his work Morning Coffee, The Tutor and A Penny Short among other works
An Old Brooklynite Dead.
Charles Thompson, for fourteen years an inmate of the Brooklyn Home for Aged Colored People, died in that institution on Thursday, of old age. He was born in Flatbush ninety-eight years ago, and at the age of three years was taken into the Jarvis family. He was interred in the Jarvis family burial plot in Cypress Hills Cemetery. He was well educated. He on several occasions acted as a model for the artist, Harry Roseland, whose drawings of Negro characters were famous. For thirty five years he was sexton of the Concord Baptist Church and he was a member of the African M. E. Church on Bridge street. The Rev. W. T. Dixon and the Rev.
P, M. Jacobs officiated at the services held at 10 o'clock Sunday. The deceased leaves one son, Augustus.
published The New York Age
Sept 10, 1908
His portrait can be seen in Mr Roseland's painting An Elderly African American Gentleman and in his work Morning Coffee, The Tutor and A Penny Short among other works
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