She was its chief sustainer, and her loss is irreparable

The parish has lost by death one of its best and noblest laymen. She was its chief sustainer, and her loss is irreparable. The Mission at Roxobel is served in connection with this parish, services being held there on alternate Sundays. The Parish Church is now the owner of a beautiful and substantial pipe-organ, the gift of that noble and most estimable Christian lady, Mrs. M. A. Thompson, deceased, and is a fit and suitable memorial of her.

(Source: The Rev. Edward Wootten, Parochial Report, Grace Church, Bertie County, 1881 Journal of Convention, 157)