Wilford & Kate Thompson

Wilford Woodruff & Kate Judd Thompson

Kids: Mary, John, Sidney, Judd, Clark, Dallas

Here's a story form Grandpa Thompson's youth in St. George:

We did not have any athletic teaching in school at all so we would make up our own athletic program. I became one of the best athletes in the school at that time. My athletica bility in racing was first champion, and in my jumping capacity I was leader. I jumped twenty-four feet, six inches in two broad jumps. I jumped in a standing high-jump four feet six inches. In the running high jump about five feet seven inches. In the running broad jump I jumped twenty-two feet six inches. In my racing ability I held the state record at one time for five years for running it in eight and four tenths seconds. Before I left St. George I outran two of the fastest men, one from the University of Utah and one from the Agricultural Colege. Ione was Millard Watson from Parowan and the other was Sherman Cooper of Washington.

A letter from President Heber J. Grant: